Irish 3D printing firm wins UK innovation award

The Platinum Awards which aims to shine the spotlight on the UK’s best tech companies awarded recognition to medical 3D printing firm, Axial3D.

These awards recognise and celebrate start-ups and scale-ups from across the UK that have achieved the most traction, the most investment and created the best new product or service ideas in the past year.

Axial3D, helps to transform pre-operative planning and patient consent whilst making 3D printing routine for complex cases. The medical 3D printing solution aims to make it easy for surgeons across the world to access 3D printed models from patient data with a secure online ordering portal and a range of flexible options. These models are produced and shipped within 48 hours from ordering, and 3D print files can be delivered within 24 hours. This process previously took up to eight weeks.

Niall Haslam, CTO at Axial3D said: “We’re extremely proud to have been one of just eight UK companies recognised at this year’s Digital Catapult Platinum Awards. 3D printing is revolutionising patient care in hospitals across the world. Having our work recognised at the Platinum Awards highlights the importance of our mission to improve the quality of care hospitals can provide by enhancing existing practices, giving their clinicians easy access to patient-specific 3D printed models.”