The Smart Award scheme, sponsored by Invest NI, aims to help small businesses develop new products and processes to improve their competitiveness.
Aztech Engineering Solutions Ltd. has received an award to aid the creation of a highly innovative plastering application machine that will benefit the construction industry.
The award presented to Aztech Engineering will provide financial assistance, enabling the company to conduct a technical and commercial feasibility study on a new device to apply plaster to walls and ceilings. The plastering prototype will be for use within the construction industry and will provide a novel technical advance to the current time and labour intensive method. Aztech are confident the final prototype will have the ergonomics, weight and control of a machine that could revolutionise the industry.
The new machine technology designed and currently under construction by Aztech could spell the end for labour intensive plastering, which often results in many cases of lower back and joint problems among plasterers and labourers alike.