 I'm Dr. Bryony Poor, Technology Analyst, covering 3D printing at ID Tech X and I'm joined today by Mr. Dave Barty from RICO Europe. Mr. Barty. Good morning. Good morning. Could you tell me a little bit more about RICO's activities within 3D printing, but also more broadly, what you're up to? Yeah, so RICO is best known as number one in document management and in the cut sheet markets for office digitisation. From that we've got a number of core skills that we've brought out and additive manufacturing is one of those areas where we can implement those skills. So fundamentally, knowledge of toner allows us to manage powder and those powder technologies allow us to use different applications within the additive manufacturing market. The first one of which is behind me and this is laser centering, so we're looking at industrial scale applications for particularly automotive aerospace, but it has spin-offs into healthcare and we're talking here about the ability to do functional prototyping, so not just a one-off, but also small short runs of 10 up to maybe 100 devices. This SLS technology is fundamental to the systems that we sell and these are large scale systems and not desktop, so hence the reason we call it additive manufacturing and not 3D. Absolutely, alright. And these are polyamides that you're using here? We have polyamides, but we also have polypropylene and PBT which we're demonstrating here. So the powder is where we can add value, glass bead technologies, really for more robustness, but also to be able to weld into existing extruded applications or injected moulded applications. The spin-off from this is where we can combine other technologies which is inkjet and additive manufacturing together. A little bit of an example of where you're moving towards? Yes, so this case demonstrates the combination of our print head technology and also of the evolution and revolution of new materials that we are working on in Japan. One of which is this, which is a very tactile method of producing synthetic organs. Synthetic organs is not a morbid application, but it's used primarily for medical training where real body parts are difficult to come by. We can simulate with a cyst, different colours. We can also put the internal workings of an organ together. And you see in the case here, we have another example of the kidney. We have a liver, we have a heart and we also can create hollow structures with veins. And that's for medical training, so catheter training for the livers. You can actually take the 3D CAD and make an MRI of a true patient's dimensions. And that allows the trainee surgeons to practice on something that is far less expensive than a real material. And of course, it's in far better quantity and supply. This maps with print head technology that already exists in the market and if we use a different technology we can then start to work on anti-manufacturing, which is a binder process whereby we're encapsulating glass, ceramic, metal, peak. So heavy engineered or specialist engineering plastics. But we're not damaging the internal parts, so we're not centering it as we produce it. We put an encapsulation around going back to what I was saying about our competence in toner, which is an encapsulated pigment, in this case it's an encapsulated metal glass ceramic, which we then react with an aqueous fluid to create the bond chemically rather than by using heat or laser. So the parts that you would obtain after that would that need to be sintered, to de-bind it away from the aqueous binder or could you use it as is? It depends on what the base material is. With peak the great thing about this is typically when you sinter peak, you have to dispose of all of the waste materials. What we do is take it out, shake it and we can reuse all of the spare materials for it. If it's metal parts we don't sinter it as we produce it. We produce the part first and then we effectively bake it rather than sinter it afterwards. So we're post treating the finished product. Alright, so my final question is what do you think the ID Tech Act shows? Well this is our first time exhibiting at ID Tech Act. I've been here for the last three years and I think it's a great opportunity for us to bring some new applications from R&D to get people the experience of what the market is looking for and to network with people who are potentially partners or even customers for these products. And we can feed that information directly back into our R&D department. So an example of a new product, this is the first time that this has been shown outside of Japan. And what we're looking at here is energy harvest. So we're using a solar die cell which is the red part although we can make different colours, yellows and blues. And we're capturing it either on a solid, such as this. And this is what's powering the turntable just from the ambient light, indoor light. Or we have a flexible application here which could be applied to wearable technologies and more robust applications. And that again is powering the LED. So everything that you see twinkling here is being powered by the operation of the cell. And you have it for sensors, either gas sensors, CO2 sensors, temperature sensors. But also one of the key areas for this is IoT applications where you want to place a sensor but you're never going to change the battery. So you need to be capturing energy all of the time. And with our semiconductor business we also have low level energy management for automotive, for things like key fobs and infotainment. So we have energy harvesting, we also have low level energy management within our cell. And this really is a showcase for this product and to enable us to really gather some market feedback as to where we take it. Well thank you very much for this very informative interview. Thank you.