Irish Eyes are Smiling...Mcor Technologies Stack Up More Awards

Sometimes good things come to good people, and it's absolutely fantastic to be able to report some good news. Hot on the heels of winning the Intertrade Ireland Seedcorn Emerging International Award last November Ardee based Mcor Technologies have done it again!

Earlier this month they picked up two awards at the Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards, Mcor triumphed in the "One to Watch" category and also picked up the Overall award beating off competition from six other category winners. Not content with the rather splendid trophies that can be seen in the picture they then followed it up with an appearance on prime time network television in their native land the very next night. The Late Late Show on RTE is the No.1 rated show...how often can we say that RP&M technologies have made prime time, other than a fleeting glimpse in CSI!

Mcor Technologies launched their Matrix printer last year to quite a fanfare, making it's debut at TCT 2008 it has garnered a great deal of interest. The reasons are clear, the biggest barriers to many RP machine purchases are price and materials and the Matrix can shoot them both down, it uses paper and costs a lot less to run than most, if not every, machine on the market.

As with all start ups the key to really getting off the ground is to have a plan, and this is where Mcor score heavily. They have a marketing plan and resultant press coverage that will take some beating. They are already stepping outside of the usual engineering media routes and as a result have received coverage in media as wide reaching as the New Scientist and Irish Times along with a couple of slots on TV. They aren't afraid to try the unusual and the clever as those of you who attended TCT last year, particularly those who stayed in the HQ hotel will know.

As mentioned on this blog before, the more accessible platforms that emerge the sooner 3D printing, or whatever we are calling it this week, will be a mainstream technology and we can move towards the day when I cease to get incredulous looks when I explain what RP is and how it works. Mcor have a significant part to play in this process.