WINNER

The i-DAMP Suppressor

Description

Entrant - Hyphen Innovation

Partners - United States Air Force; Perceptive Engineering Analytics

A vibration suppression method called inherent Damping via Additive Manufacturing Processes (i-DAMP) has been developed to allow the suppression of vibration stresses by up to 95% in critical turbine engine parts. Use of this method can reduce manufacturing time of advanced small compressor suites by more than 90%.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Printed biotech space platform

Entrant - Yuri

Partners - EmtroniX

WINNER

Custom drag race steering wheel

Description

Entrant - Markforged

Partners - Larsen Motorsports

Larsen Motorsports, who build jet engine drag racing vehicles that race at speeds of over 280mph, have used Markforged Simulation to design and print a custom Continuous Carbon Fiber reinforced Onyx™ steering wheel. The design was customized to the driver’s hand shape to maximise safety, and took the lead-time from 8 days to 2 days.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Series production of automotive cold plate

Entrant - Enable Manufacturing

Partners - Continental Engineering Services

WINNER

Microsoft Adaptive Accessories

Description

Entrant - Shapeways

Partner - Microsoft

Microsoft Adaptive Accessories consist of an Adaptive Mouse, Adaptive Hub, and three Adaptive Buttons, designed to empower users who may have difficulty using a traditional mouse and keyboard to increase their PC productivity and create their ideal setup. Users can customize adaptive accessories with 3D printed add-ons like mouse tails and button toppers to fit their unique needs using the Shapeways Configurator.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

AMbelievable™ Tennis Racket Dampener

Entrant - Additive Appliances

Partners - Optimad Engineering

WINNER

Guillermo del Toro’s 'Pinocchio' Puppet Armature

Description

Entrant - Mackinnon and Saunders

Partners - Laser Prototypes Europe; Netflix; Shadow Machine; Southern GFX

Pinocchio is the world’s first stop motion puppet in a major movie to be animated with an armature created with 3D metal printed technology. The most significant innovation was the ability to combine and print the organic detailing with the armature itself. This allowed the creation of stronger, more durable puppets, which retained a delicacy of design seen in traditional techniques.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Crystal Lamellas

Entrant - Julia Koerner Design

Partners - Swarovski

WINNER

TrueShape technology

Description

Entrant - Mantle

Partners - Westminster Tool

Mantle’s TrueShape system prints precision injection mould tooling components at a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods. Integrating extrusion 3D printing of Mantle’s metal pastes with precision CNC machining, it produces parts with the accuracy and surface finish required for tooling. Parts are then sintered in Mantle’s F-200 furnace resulting in durable tool steel components.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

NXG XII 600E

Entrant - SLM Solutions

Partners - Concurrent Technologies Corporation

WINNER

Automation Ecosystem

Description

Entrant - Formlabs

Formlabs Automation Ecosystem enables a scalable fleet of- multi-user, multi-material 3D printers. Using a combination of Form Auto part removal, Fleet Control software management, and High Volume Resin, the Automation Ecosystem reduces the amount of operator labour and minimizes idle printer time so users can efficiently produce end-use parts at a lower cost-per-unit.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Magnum

Entrant - The Industry

WINNER

MED® Pharmaceutical 3D Printing

Description

Entrant - Triastek

Partners - Eli Lilly; Merck KgA; Siemens; Boehringer Ingelheim

Triastek has independently developed Melt-Extrusion Deposition (MED®), a pharmaceutical 3D printing technology which ensures more effective drug delivery, controlling when, where and how much API is released. Thought to be the world’s first continuous manufacturing line for 3D printing pharmaceuticals, the current commercial MED production line has a production rate of approximately 50 million tablets per year.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Tourniquets for Ukrainian Soldiers

Entrant - Sygnis

WINNER

Refinery Pressure Components

Description

Entrant - Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions

Partners - Chevron; Stress Engineering Services

Chevron and Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions collaborated to qualify and manufacture pressure components that were installed in a hydrogen furnace of a Chevron refinery. The large-scale components weighed 225kg and were printed with nickel 617 wire using gas metal/wire arc AM (WAAM). In less than a month, Lincoln Electric delivered production parts totalling over 2,500 kg of deposited wire.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Freshwater pump Impeller

Entrant - MX3D

Partners - Engie

WINNER

LCA-backed Ni718

Description

Entrant - 6K

A collaboration of world-leading organizations analyzed real-world data to capture the holistic impacts of AM part production. The outcome shows that in combination, 6K’s UniMelt plasma production process and Ni718 high-quality metal AM powder produced from scrap, was shown to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions compared to conventional atomization processes.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

EPU 44

Entrant - Carbon

WINNER

Powerfuse S PP

Description

Entrant - DyeMansion

DyeMansion launched the brand-new Powerfuse S PP, the first ever green vapor polishing solution for polypropylene (PP). The process uses a 100% bio-based non-toxic fluid in a closed loop system to smooth 3D-printed PP. The part benefits go far beyond aesthetics, including scratch resistance, impermeability to liquids, washable, and eliminates bacteria formation.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

RD1-TT

Entrant - Theta Technologies

WINNER

Ai Sync

Description

Entrant - Ai Build

AiSync’s advanced software platform supports a broad range of toolpath generation capabilities. Through integration with OpenAi’s natural language model GPT, “Talk to AiSync” makes that process intuitive by using basic text commands to generate production ready 3D print files. AiSync Defect Detection Capability validates end part integrity and immediately alerts users to 3D print defects.

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Guidelines

Entrant - Authentise

Partners - ASTM; MPI; TWI; Photocentric; Innovate UK

AVIONICS HEAT EXCHANGER

Tech Lead: Advanced Engineering Solutions

Partners - EOS; PTC

BLACKLAND RAZORS - THE ERA

Tech Lead - 3DEO

End User - Blackland Razors

LEGO GO-KART

Tech Lead - Polymaker

End User - Matt Denton

ROBOWAAM

Tech lead - Waam3d

MICROARCH-S230

Tech Lead - Boston Micro Fabrication

NHS KNEE ALIGNMENT DEVICE

Tech Lead - Ricoh 3D

End User - FORLAU

Partners - HP

C-BLOCK

Tech Lead - Cold Pad

End User - EDF

Partners - ARKEMA; ERPRO

FORTIFY TCDR

Tech Lead - Fortify

E-BLAST SURFACE FINISHING

Tech Lead - GPAInnova

ELISE

Tech Lead - Elise

VW TIGUAN TOOLING NOZZLE

Tech Lead - Additive Industries

End User - Volkswagen

VERIPART DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN

Tech Lead - Moog Inc

End User - Air New Zealand

Partners - Microsoft, ST Engineering

AUTOMATED DESIGN OF JIGS & FIXTURES

Tech Lead - Trinckle

End User - Ford Motor Company

Partners - Ultimaker B.V

PRECISION DIAMOND HELMET LINER

Tech Lead - Carbon

End User - Riddell

REPLICA DRAGON CONSERVATION PROJECT

Tech Lead - 3D Systems

End User - Historic Royal Palaces

Partners - Paul Jewby Master Carver

CFC TECHNOLOGY

Tech Lead - Anisoprint S.a.r.i

MICRO AM

Tech Lead - Nanofabrica

NEUROINFUSE DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM

Tech Lead - Renishaw plc

End User - North Bristol NHS Trust

Partners - The Harley Street Clinic; Herantis Pharma plc

INDUSTRIAL ROBOT DOUGH CUTTING KNIFE

Tech Lead - K3D B.V

End User - Kaak Group

Partners - Additive Industries; Civon Project 

NON DESTRUCTIVE IMAGING IN FORENSICS

Tech Lead - University of Warwick

End User - West Midlands Police 

Partners - Crown Prosecution Service University Hospital Coventry and Warwick

FARO OPTOR LAB 

Tech lead - Faro

XJET S100 SOLUBLE SUPPORT

Tech Lead - XJet

FORMLABS DRAFT RESIN

Tech Lead - Formlabs

INTELLIGENT DE-POWDERING

Tech Lead - Siemens AG

VELO3D

nTOP PLATFORM

Tech Lead - nTOPOLOGY

PROJECT MELT

Tech Lead - Beeverycreative

End User - European Space Agency 

Partners - Sonaca Space, OHB-System Active Space Technologies

BMW i8 ROADSTER SLM BRACKET

Tech Lead - SLM Solutions 

End User - BMW

Partners - SLM Solutions, Materialise, Altair Engineering

VITAMIX NOZZLE

Tech Lead - Carbon

End User - Vitamix 

EMBRACE - JEWELLERY WITH EBEDDED GEMSTONES

Tech Lead - Cookson Gold

End User - Boltenstern

Partners - Heimerie + Meule, University of Technology Vienna, Hafan City University, Hamburg

LightSPEED3D

Tech Lead - SPEED3D

E3D TOOL-CHANGER

Tech Lead - E3D Online

PRE-OP PLANNING MODEL AIDS WORLDS FIRST SURGERY

Tech Lead - Axial 3D

End User - Belfast City Hospital

MASS CUSTOMISATION OF COPPER INDUCTORS

Tech Lead - Trinckle 3D

End User - PROTIQ

NANOSTEEL BLDRMETAL L - 40

Tech Lead - Formetrix, formerly NanoSteel's Additive Manufacturing Business Unit 

SABIC EXL AMHI240F FILAMENT

Tech Lead - Sabic

Partners - RP+M

AIRCRAFT DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

Tech Lead - 3D Systems

End User - Easyjet

Partners - OR3D

DLYTE: METAL DRYLYTE ELECTROPOLISHING

Tech Lead - Steros GPA Innovate S.L

HIETA TECHNOLOGIES LTD

MATERIALISE E-STAGE FOR METAL

Tech Lead - Materialise

EBAM SPACE TANKS

Tech Lead - Sciaky

End User - Lockhead Martin

VM CUSTOM TOOLS

Tech Lead - Ultimaker

End User - Volkswagen Autoeuropa

ADIDAS FUTURECRAFT 4D MIDSOLES

Tech Lead - Carbon

End User - Adidas

ANOMALISA FILM

Tech Lead - 3D Systems

End User - Starburns Industries

CBAM MODEL ONE

Tech Lead - Impossible Objects

TRIFUSION DEVICES

Tech Lead - Essentium Materials

End User - Basf

POLYCAST

Tech Lead - Polymaker

PHILIPS LIGHTING PRODUCTION TOOLS

Tech Lead - Materialise

End User - Phillips Lighting

DESKTOP METAL

POLYGONICA

Tech Lead - Machineworks