Finalists announced for Med-Tech Innovation award categories – EPM Magazine

The five new Med-Tech Innovation award categories will sit alongside the Medilink UK categories at this year’s awards and gala dinner, as a representation of engineering excellence and ingenuity across the medtech sector.
The winners for each category will be announced on the 15 th  May at a gala dinner and reception, hosted by award-winning author and comedian, Adam Kay.
The categories and the respective finalists are:
Connected Health
Awarded to a company which has demonstrated the integration of smart components and technologies in a project with futuristic, digital applications.
Entry: Arete Medical Technologies’ Respicorder for monitoring respiratory conditions.
Aseptika Limited (Activ8rlives)
Entry: Aseptika’s Activ8rlives platform called Asthma+me for children with moderate-to-severe asthmas.
Cambridge Respiratory Innovations Limited
Entry: Cambridge Respiratory Innovations’ N-Tidal technology platform for consistently and reliably measuring the TBCO2 waveform.
Entry: Sensium’s discreet, wearable, wireless system for monitoring vital signs of patients outside of high acuity areas.
Sentinel Biosensor
Sentinel Biosensor’s medical grade, re-useable, wearable vital signs monitor, which claims to measure more vital signs in a single device than any other.
Entry: BlueThink UK’s battery technology which aims to improve the experience of everyone involved in the product life-cycle, from design to final disposal.
Computational Life
Entry: Computational Life’s testing software which integrates several components of the human body in a tightly integrated manner.
Medical Devices Testing and Evaluation Centre
Entry: MD-TEC’s Sim Lab, which echoes the NHS clinical environment, allowing companies to design products that synergise with the existing clinical infrastructure.
Owen Mumford Ltd
Entry: Owen Mumford’s Unifine Pentips Plus (UPP), a single use disposable needle for use with re-useable or disposable injection pens.
Sheffield Hallam University
Entry: Sheffield Hallam University’s wireless non-invasive respiratory sound recording device, to overcome the challenges in the screening and diagnosis of inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) in paediatric patients.
Sutrue Ltd
Entry: Sutrue’s range of devices with “spring-plate” design which helps drive a needle 360°, creating a perfect suture at the touch of a button.
Entry: ES Precision’s CO2 laser perforating process which contributes to a better, more comfortable experience for amputees when wearing artificial limbs.
LightOx Ltd
Entry: LightOx’s device that is capable of delivering light at a wavelength, for a set period of time, with a set intensity, essentially delivering power to the target in a controlled manner, when developing light-sensitive drugs and devices.
Mitsubishi Electric Automation Systems Division UK
Entry: Mitsubishi Electric’s innovative, compact thermoforming packaging machine that breaks the rules of conventional packaging lines and reduces the footprint of a medical packaging line by a huge margin.
Industry 4.0
Awarded to a company that can demonstrate the implantation (or the supply) of smart manufacturing techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of product supply.
Entry: Connect 2 Cleanrooms’  intelligent cleanroom solution, designed for a medical device manufacturing contract that is due to run until 2032.
Entry: MasterControl’s Manufacturing Excellence solution for medical devices and pharmaceuticals eliminates the inefficient paper-based management of device history records, recipe management, batch records, travellers and other manufacturing information processes, and provides greater automation, visibility and traceability throughout the production life cycle.
Trend Technologies and Sumitomo Demag
Entry: Sumitomo Demag’s all-electric injection moulding machines, supplied to Trend Technologies’ recently opened third ISO Class 7 (10,000) cleanroom in Mullingar, Ireland.
Materials Innovation
Awarded to a company which can demonstrate that materials choice had a direct impact (or the potential to impact) on the clinical benefits of a medical device.
Entry: MP+H Packaging’s coating that protects medical products from cross-contamination throughout the supply chain.
Nova-BioRubber Green Technologies Inc
Entry: Nova-BioRubber Green Technologies’ novel growing and green processing technologies for the production of hypoallergenic and sustainable biolatex, biorubber and inulin to solve latex allergy and satisfy growing rubber demand in a sustainable way.
Entry: Shapeways’ PA11, which is derived from castor oil and is now being made available to customers as part of the firm’s expansion in to the orthosis and prosthesis market.
All entries were judged over the course of a week, by an independent panel of judges representing various different stakeholders in the medtech supply chain. The panel is comprised of:
Ana Avaliani, Head of Enterprise, Royal Academy of Engineering
Ana heads up the Enterprise Hub team at the Royal Academy of Engineering supporting technology entrepreneurs on their journey of setting up and growing innovative engineering companies.