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Croom Medical CEO Patrick Brynes presents 3D-printed trophy to Stripe Chief Revenue Officer Eileen O’Mara. Pictured R:L – Niamh O’Donnellan (Stripe), Eileen O’Mara (Stripe), Patrick Byrnes (Croom Medical), Ronan Donovan (Croom Medical) Croom Medical CEO Patrick Brynes presents 3D-printed trophy to Stripe Chief Revenue Officer Eileen O’Mara. Pictured R:L – Niamh O’Donnellan (Stripe), Eileen O’Mara (Stripe), Patrick Byrnes (Croom Medical), Ronan Donovan (Croom Medical)

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Stripe Partners with Croom Medical for 2026 Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition trophies

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Croom Medical CEO Patrick Brynes presents 3D-printed trophy to Stripe Chief Revenue Officer Eileen O’Mara. Pictured R:L – Niamh O’Donnellan (Stripe), Eileen O’Mara (Stripe), Patrick Byrnes (Croom Medical), Ronan Donovan (Croom Medical)

Stripe Partners with Croom Medical to 3D-Print Trophies for the 2026 Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

The trophies feature a distinctive molecular-inspired structure at their core.

Stripe has partnered with Croom Medical to manufacture the trophies for the 2026 Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (YSTE), one of Ireland’s leading platforms for student innovation, scientific enquiry and engineering excellence.

Designed by Stripe’s team and manufactured by Croom Medical at its facility in Croom, Co. Limerick, the trophies feature a distinctive molecular-inspired structure at their core.

The design was realised using laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing in Titanium Grade 23, a material more commonly associated with high-performance medical implants.


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Patrick Byrnes, CEO of Croom Medical, said the sponsorship reflects a natural alignment between advanced manufacturing and science education. “The technologies we used to manufacture the Stripe YSTE trophies are the same we rely on every day to produce orthopedic implants,” he said. “Supporting the Young Scientist Exhibition allows us to apply that capability in a way that recognises curiosity, experimentation and engineering thinking at an early stage.”

The design was realised using laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing in Titanium Grade 23

The complex geometry of the trophy would be extremely difficult to achieve using conventional CNC machining. L-PBF enables fine layers of metal powder to be selectively fused with high precision, enabling intricate internal and external features to be produced while maintaining strength and durability.

The material selected, Ti-6Al-4V ELI (Grade 23), is widely used in medical applications including knee and spinal implants due to its strength, fatigue resistance and biocompatibility. Its use in the trophies highlights the direct connection between advanced engineering and real-world medical outcomes.

By sponsoring the manufacture of the trophies for the Stripe YSTE Competition, Croom Medical is pleased to support to the development of Ireland’s next generation of engineers, scientists and problem solvers. Many of the skills demonstrated by students at the exhibition, from design for manufacture to precision engineering, closely reflect those applied within the company.

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