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Design Innovation in Plastics Award

A product design competition for undergraduate students in the UK & Ireland

DIP 2025 Results!

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Congratulations to Harry Wragg from De Montford University for winning hte 2025 DIP competition with his innovation invention, CPR+Aid. Read all the details below.

Timeline

14       March 2025            Submission deadline
28       March 2025            Preliminary judging
14-16  April 2025               Sumitomo Demag
9         May 2025               Final Judging
20       June 2025              
Award ceremony

DIP 2025 Results

De Montfort University student wins with life-saving device

 

After a nail-biting wait for the results by our super six finalists, we were delighted to announce the 2025 results at our award ceremony in London on Friday (June 20), held at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.  The top prize went to a student from De Montfort University with a simple but brilliant device which could save lives.

 

Harry Wragg was awarded the DIP trophy for his product CPR+Aid, a new device for helping people to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).  He was answering this year’s brief of Health and Wellbeing – a product for the self-care agenda.

 

 

 

Chairman of DIP, Martin Sixsmith; chief executive of IOM3, Dr Colin Church, Romaine Crawford, Krzystzof Boroniec, Abbie Williams, winner, Harry Wragg; Henry Follett, Michael MH Leung, Rebecca Joyce, Covestro UK managing director, Steve Gormley.

 

CPR+Aid gives audible feedback immediately pressure is applied, to guide people through the vital life-saving skill, ensuring they are applying the right amount of pressure. Harry presented three different sizes of device, all colour-coded to identify the specific individuals it should be used on.  The simple but ingenious nature of CPR+Aid, which works without the need for electronics, makes it a low-cost solution that could potentially form part of a first aid kit.  It is made from high density polyethylene (HDPE) for easy recyclability, strength, flexibility and toughness. 

 

Our delighted winner said “My research had shown a lack of first aid training and lack of defibrillator availability, so I wanted to find something that would give people the confidence to help save a life.

 

“I’ve proved to myself that I’m capable of producing a professional design that can change lives and have an impact on society.  This competition has opened a door into a public sector of product design, demonstrating the possibilities and links to future opportunities.”

 

Chairman of judges, Richard Brown, said: “We were very impressed with the simplicity of the product, the thought which had been given to material selection and how it would be manufactured, including being upscaled to meet demand.  We believe it is a product that challenges the current CPR approach and could save lives.”

 

Commenting on this year’s finalists, he added: “The standard was so high that there were very fine margins between the final positions, and we would suggest that a number of products are good enough to be commercialised.”

 

Harry wins £1,000, a placement with a DIP sponsor, a year’s membership to IOM3 and an invitation to the Worshipful Company of Horners’ annual banquet.

The judges awarded second place to Krzysztof Boroniec, a product design student from Technological University Dublin, for his product Nibbliee, an ingenious chewing device, which helps exercise chewing and jaw muscles and translates into a signal, enabling activity in digital games. It was created using ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) for the biting tray and polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) for a structural component, utlilising both flexibility of EVA and durability of PETG, both also being biocompatible and recyclable.  Kris wins £750 and a placement with a DIP sponsor.

 

In third place is Abbie Williams, Nottingham Trent University, with FlexiKnee Pro, a knee strengthening brace which uses resistance bands to help strengthen the joint and offset osteoarthritis.  The design is injection moulded using recycled thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to lower the environmental impact, with polypropylene clips for low cost and efficient manufacturing.  Abbie wins £500 and a placement with a DIP sponsor.

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A Word About Plastic and Sustainability

DIP works in harmony with the British Plastics Federation which, via its member groups and expert committees, is championing several sustainability initiatives at different stages of the supply chain - including design - to achieve a circular plastics economy.

 

Sustainability is one of the key considerations applied by the DIP judges when critiquing the many designs submitted. Students entering the competition are asked to show evidence that a clear understanding of the principles of sustainability has been applied to their design. This is reinforced in every one of the briefs we produce each year.

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What is DIP?

Established in 1985, Design Innovation In Plastics is now the longest running student plastics design award in Europe. Students submit their entries digitally and finalists are invited to present their concepts to a panel of judges with presentation slides and models. All finalists win a cash prize, a short placement with a UK design company, and connections to esteemed members of the community. We encourage tutors and lecturers to incorporate our brief into their university’s coursework to facilitate student submissions. Design Innovation in Plastics is sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Horners, The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3), and market leaders in the fields of design and innovation including Covestro.

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