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2023 Best Design Awards

The SoleTech Dehorner received a Bronze Badge at the 2023 Best Design Awards. This is an annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product, digital and motion design. I’d like to say a huge thank you and congratulations to all the amazing folk at MWDesign. I’m super stoked to see their skills being recognised! I’m proud of what we have achieved so far and I’m looking forward to the next part of the journey. https://bestawards.co.nz/product/concept-experimental/mwdesign/soletech-...

2023 NZVA & NZVNA Conference

Hey everyone, I'm excited to be speaking at the upcoming 2023 NZVA & NZVNA Conference in Wellington, NZ on Friday 30 June, in Room 1.2 at 4:50pm.I thought I’d do a ‘show and tell’, using the SoleTech Dehorner as an example of innovation, commercialisation and entrepreneurship in vet.As I'm preparing my talk, I want to make sure I'm addressing the topics that are most important to you, and I'd love to hear what questions you might have!Please share them in the comments below, or send me...

NZ Entrepreneur - 2023

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2022 NZVA Conference

It is a privilege to be part of such a talented and dynamic profession and I’m enormously grateful for the support from my colleagues. Thank you to everyone for giving me your time. There was an overwhelming amount of interest shown, which exceeded my expectations. It was great to get the tick of approval from Mark Hosking, CEO of Franklin Vets and Grant McCullough, founder of Veterinary Hospital Group and President of the NZVA....

2022 NZVA Conference

Thrilled to announce SoleTech will be exhibiting our latest innovations at the 2022 New Zealand Veterinary Association conference in June. Look forward to catching up with colleagues, having discussions with delegates and examining other exhibits....

Bringing veterinarian tools into the 21st century with SoleTech - NZ Entrepreneur

David Sole remembers the exact moment that he began his journey as an entrepreneur. He was onsite at Massey University’s farm at the large animal teaching unit and his lecturer, Dr Kevin Lawrence, was demonstrating a fetotomy, which is a procedure that removes dead calves from cows. It’s an invasive and physically demanding task for veterinarians, as well as distressing for the animal itself.“He turned to me and said, ‘Dave, look how old the design of these tools are, we’ve been using ...

SoleTech is bringing veterinarian tools into the 21st century - NZ Herald

He was at Massey University's farm at the large animal teaching unit and his lecturer, Dr Kevin Lawrence, was demonstrating a fetotomy, a procedure that removes dead calves from cows. It's an invasive and physically demanding task for veterinarians, as well as distressing for the animal. "He turned to me and said, 'Dave, look how old the design of these tools are, we've been using them for 100 years. Make them better.' So I decided I would." The first port of call for Sole was to get some initia...

A Simple Idea - VetScript

David Sole reckons there's nothing extraordinary about his achievements - that he's just a guy who happens to have been in the right places at the right times. But how many final-year veterinary students do you know who’ve invented, provisionally patented and publicly demonstrated world-first veterinary tools? Or founded their own start-up in the field of agricultural technology? David, 31, took two instruments of his own design to the North Island Fieldays in June. One was for dehorning cattl...