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Lightweight Medical joins Onzo
Lightweight Medical, the Glasgow-based product development company, and Onzo, have decided to pool their resources in a single company. As a result all the Lightweight Medical team has joined Onzo.
Onzo was founded in February 2007 as a collaboration between Lightweight Medical, the ground-breaking sustainable design practice, Joel Hagan, who became Chief Executive, and More Associates, a design, communications and branding consultancy specializing in sustainable technology. Lightweight Medical has been the design inspiration behind Onzo, researching, developing and designing its products and supporting service system. Both companies have now resolved that their future potential and ability to take advantage of the global market can best be realized if they work together as a single entity.
All Lightweight Medical’s directors have joined Onzo in key positions. The Founder Directors, Neil Tierney and Neil Farish, are Onzo’s Research and Development Director and Sales Director respectively, while Design Director Ryder Meggitt, founder of Element Zero Six, will once again partner Brian McGuigan, who heads Onzo’s product design department, and Rory Wilkinson becomes Onzo’s Head of Technical Operations.
Lightweight Medical was founded in 2003 and employed 15 people. The team specialises in strategy, research and design, operating in the fields of technology, innovation and sustainability. It is expert in turning complex, technologies into usable, useful and compelling consumer products, involving the end user at all stages of development, from technology specification to manufacturing liaison and product packaging. This unique approach has been recognised by leading business and design awards including:
• 2008 International Red Dot Product Design Award
• 2007 International iF Product Design Award
• 2007 UK Design Week Industrial Design Award
• 2006 Scottish Creative Entrepreneurs of the year
• 2004 UK Shell Entrepreneurs of the Year
Element Zero Six is Lightweight Medical’s consultancy arm.
