Syqe Medical, a 3D printed medical cannabis inhaler

Syqe Medical is a young Israeli company that has developed a 3D printed cannabis inhaler to offer a tailor-made pharmaceutical treatment. This tool transforms the plant in order to meet the pharmaceutical requirements of the market and thus offer patients the dose they need to treat themselves. Thanks to a system of pre-loaded cartridges, the inhaler offers a selective dosage with an accuracy of 100 micrograms according to the needs of the user. The different parts of this medical solution were printed in 3D, allowing the startup to accelerate the product design phase and its launch on the market. We met Itay Kurgan, product manager at Syqe Medical to learn more about this pharmaceutical device and understand the impact of additive manufacturing on this sector.

3DN: Can you introduce yourself and your link to 3D printing?

My name is Itay Kurgan, I am a product manager at Syqe Medical. I have professional experience in industrial design and have been working with 3D printers since 2010, when I was a student at HIT. (Holon Institute of Technology).

3D printing allows to accelerate the manufacturing of the final product

When 3D printers were first introduced to us in a CAD course, we were told that CAD software was not used to design but to execute our designs and that 3D printers were not manufacturing tools, but prototyping tools at most. I was quite intrigued and always found excuses to try to use these printers in my projects over the next three years.