--- title: "AMT Awards, Shortlists and R&D Grants | AMT PostPro" description: "TCT Post-Processing Award 2024 for the PostPro SFX, Start-up of the Year 2018 and every AMT award, shortlist and grant since 2017." canonical: https://amtechnologies.com/awards/ updated: 2026-10-07 type: company --- Awards # Awards, shortlists and grants. Every award, finalist place and competitive R&D grant AMT has received since 2017, each linked to its announcement. - **Wins**: 3 - **Finalist places**: 3 - **Shortlisted**: 2 - **Competitive R&D grants**: 5 2017 to today ## The full list. Each item was checked against its announcement on October 6, 2026. Grants are competitive awards from Innovate UK and EU funding programs. 1. 2026 Finalist ### TCT Awards 2026 TCT Hardware Award: Polymer systems TCT Group [TCT Magazine (opens in a new tab)](https://www.tctmagazine.com/general-motors-nasa-mod-among-shortlist-as-tct-awards-finalists-revealed/) 2. 2025 Finalist · Highly commended ### TCT Awards 2025 TCT Post-Processing Award · Entry: PostPro SFX for polypropylene TCT Group [TCT Magazine (opens in a new tab)](https://www.tctmagazine.com/a-night-of-additive-excellence-tct-awards-2025-winners-annouced/) · [AMT news post](https://amtechnologies.com/news/postpro-sfx-pp-nominated-tct-awards-2025/) 3. 2024 Winner ### TCT Awards 2024 TCT Post-Processing Award · Entry: PostPro SFX desktop vapor smoothing with PostPro Pure TCT Group [TCT Magazine (opens in a new tab)](https://www.tctmagazine.com/boeing-eos-arburg-westinghouse-winners-tct-awards-2024/) 4. 2023 Shortlisted ### 3D Printing Industry Awards 2023 Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing · Entry: PostPro Pure 3D Printing Industry [3D Printing Industry (opens in a new tab)](https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-printing-industry-awards-2023-vote-now-225330/) 5. 2023 Grant ### EU-funded R&D project Automated post-processing research, June 2023 to October 2026 · AMT as lead participant EU funding program [UKRI Gateway to Research (opens in a new tab)](https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=600571) 6. 2022 Recipient ### AMGTA 2022 Sustainability Awards One of the member companies recognized at the first AMGTA summit Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association [Business Wire (opens in a new tab)](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220514005016/en) · [Business Wire (archived) (opens in a new tab, archived copy)](https://web.archive.org/web/20220819113905/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220514005016/en) 7. 2021 Shortlisted ### 3D Printing Industry Awards 2021 Innovation of the Year · Entry: PostPro3D automated vapor smoothing 3D Printing Industry [3D Printing Industry (opens in a new tab)](https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/2021-3d-printing-industry-awards-vote-now-196425/) 8. 2021 Grant ### Innovate UK grant: LAYMA NEXTGEN Feasibility project on water-free fusing of color and functional materials onto printed polymer parts · AMT as lead participant Innovate UK [UKRI Gateway to Research (opens in a new tab)](https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=106552) 9. 2020 Grant ### Innovate UK Sustainable Innovation grant: GreenTech3D A bio-renewable solvent for vapor smoothing thermoplastic elastomers such as TPU Innovate UK [3D Printing Industry (opens in a new tab)](https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/amt-receives-87k-innovate-uk-grant-to-develop-new-organic-solvent-for-elastomers-188856/) 10. 2020 Grant ### Innovate UK grant: CoNaSPro3D Post-processing for 3D printed Covid-19 nasopharyngeal swabs · AMT as lead participant Innovate UK [UKRI Gateway to Research (opens in a new tab)](https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=81905) 11. 2018 Finalist ### TCT Awards 2018 TCT Post-Processing Award · Entry: PostPro3D automated part finishing TCT Group [TCT Magazine (opens in a new tab)](https://www.tctmagazine.com/finalists-tct-awards-2018-early-bird-tickets/) 12. 2018 Winner ### 3D Printing Industry Awards 2018 Start-up of the Year 3D Printing Industry [3D Printing Industry (opens in a new tab)](https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/2018-3d-printing-industry-awards-winners-announced-133578/) 13. 2018 Recognition ### Made in Sheffield License holder of the Made in Sheffield mark Made in Sheffield [Sheffield Digital (opens in a new tab)](https://sheffield.digital/amt-3d-printing-sheffield/) · [Made in Sheffield (archived) (opens in a new tab, archived copy)](https://web.archive.org/web/20190825033101/https://www.madeinsheffield.org/license_holder/additive-manufacturing-technologies-amt/) 14. 2017 Listed ### UK 3D printing start-ups to watch in 2018 Listed for the post-processing method developed at the University of Sheffield 3D Printing Industry [3D Printing Industry (opens in a new tab)](https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/uk-3d-printing-start-ups-watch-2018-126560/) 15. 2017 Winner ### formnext Start-up Challenge 2017 One of five winners, for the automated PostPro3D formnext (Mesago Messe Frankfurt) [AdditiveManufacturing.com (opens in a new tab)](https://additivemanufacturing.com/2017/09/29/in-formnext-start-up-challenge-impressive-innovations-map-out-the-future-of-am/) 16. 2017 Grant ### Innovate UK Collaborative R&D grant AMT-led consortium to develop the next generation of the PostPro3D automated post-processing machine Innovate UK [3D Printing Industry (opens in a new tab)](https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/innovate-uk-grants-782000-3d-printing-post-processing-technology-105561/) Work with the originals ## Send us a part. 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