A student from Douglas is in the final of a national design competition in the UK.

Christopher Kay is in his fourth year of study at De Montfort University, Leicester.

He is one of five student finalists in a competition for products on a theme of ’enhancing health and wellbeing’ in the Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition, 2019.

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The longest-running student plastics design competition of its type, DIP is held every year to encourage university students to come up with new products made primarily of plastic.

The competition’s organisers, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and the Worshipful Company of Horners, this year set the challenging brief of ’Healthy Body - Healthy World’ - looking for a product which promotes wellbeing and has the qualities of longevity and sustainability.

Christopher has come up with EnviroJect, a re-usable syringe system, providing a safe and sustainable method of administering medications.

He said: ’I wanted to re-work a traditional medical system in order to improve the sustainability of such a high consumable process.’

He was among an original field of 149 entries and now, along with the other four finalists, will go to the awards ceremony in London on July 5, when the results will be announced.

The winner will receive a trip to Germany to visit Covestro, along with a cash prize.

Christopher has already achieved success with his product, having been shortlisted in the finals of the Royal Society of Arts Manufactures and Commerce Student Design Awards, 2019, a competition for emerging designers.