AGM Update

Aortech International PLC
17 November 2005


For immediate release                                        17 November 2005



                           AorTech International plc

                                   AGM Update

                           and Notice of Poll Meeting



AorTech International plc (AIM:AOR) today updates shareholders following its
Annual General Meeting on 26 October 2005.


At the AGM, all Resolutions were passed by a show of hands.  However, in the
cases of resolution number 5 concerning the proposed election of Jon Peter
Pither as a Director and resolution number 7 concerning the proposed change of
name of the Company to AorTech Biomaterials plc, a poll was validly requested by
a person in attendance at the meeting.  It has been determined that the poll
will be taken at 12 noon on Tuesday, 6 December  2005, at Buchanan
Communications, 107 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6DN.  All shareholders entitled to
attend the Annual General Meeting will be entitled to attend the taking of the
poll.


Jon Pither was appointed as a Non-Executive Director on 1 March 2004 and took
over as Chairman on 13 May 2005.  Jon has Board and City institutional
experience and also knowledge and experience of the challenges facing quoted
small cap companies with emerging technologies.  The Board unanimously support
the election of Jon Pither to allow him to continue as Chairman.


The objective in proposing the change of the name from AorTech International plc
to AorTech Biomaterials plc is to reflect more accurately the future of the
Company's focus on the development and commercial applications of its
biomaterial products.  The Company's subsidiary in Australia, where the research
and operational activity is now centred, is named AorTech Biomaterials Pty Ltd.
Given that the UK operation is administrative rather than marketing related, the
costs of such a change would be relatively minimal in terms of reprinting of
stationery and other related items.


Shareholders are being sent an explanatory letter early next week, together with
a proxy card, and are required to lodge the card in the Registrars' offices no
later than noon on Monday, 5 December 2005 in order for it to be valid.  Proxies
that were lodged prior to the Annual General Meeting will remain valid unless
revoked by submitting the new proxy card.  Copies of the letter to the
shareholders and the poll card will be made available to the public from the
date of the announcement for a period of one month, free of charge, and can be
obtained from the Company's office whose address is given below.


The poll will be taken at 12 noon on Tuesday, 6 December, 2005 at Buchanan
Communications and the results announced to the Stock Exchange as soon as
possible thereafter.  Shareholders are entitled to attend.  Return of the proxy
form does not prevent a member from attending the poll and voting in person.


For further information please contact:


AorTech International plc                             0870 850 8286
David Parsons, Company Secretary

Buchanan Communications                               020 7466 5000
Ben Willey, Lisa Baderoon, Rebecca Skye Dietrich


AorTech International plc
Prestige Travel Suite
Barclays Bank House
81-83 Victoria Road
Surbiton
Surrey
KT6 4NS


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