 So we hear the ID Tech X and the high so who are you and Daniel job from resident Europe. So we're here resident Europe Acoustic mixers and hi, so who are you? So I'm Andrew Dupadey And so what are you gonna do right here? So we're gonna show a small little demo where we have some graphene and It's a glomerated from the first graphene from here So it's a it should be a nanopowder But it's actually a glomerated. So it's a large powder at the moment we're going to put it into a tube for the polystyrene beads and That will have a milling effect and it will reduce the agglomerated powder to a Nanopowder where it should be and then that nanopowder will coat the beads So this is your machine. What is this? This is the lab ram. It's a resident acoustic mixer It's a new mix in technology. Essentially. We have a non-contact mixer It's a platform goes up and down about 60 times a second But it automatically finds the resonant frequency of the platform or whatever's on it holds it at resonance at Accelerations up to 100 g and it will literally mix any combination of materials liquids and liquids liquids and gases liquids and solids or solids and solids so it recognizes what's on it Recognizes the the weight of the payload that's on it and finds its resonant frequency So every weight has a resonant frequency every system has a resonant system. Yes You have to type in what material is there? No, it works it all out for itself It's it's the system the platform and the payload and the technology can be used to mix virtually any combination of materials It mixes incredibly quickly sometimes ten times faster than conventional mixing it mixes more uniformly and more repeatably It's able to cope with nano materials It works great with graphene It's much safer with hazardous materials, and it's having a real impact in the battery industry Nice so you can show so we'll put some graphene. How much you put? Less than a gram Graphene is a very light material or yeah, it's very light Very small particles and you close it tight Close it Clamp it down. How long is it gonna take? Two seconds. Two seconds. So you should see a color change very quickly Yeah, okay, and they all coated Completely very uniformly So what's the main use case for this so the technology is in use over 30 industries It's rapidly becoming the mixing technology of choice with energetic materials and now also with batteries and also in the pharmaceutical industry So it's not really specific to one industry It's a very broad technology platform and the machine can do mixing it can do milling and it can do coating. So let's go over here You talk about Disrelevant for all these things here batteries indeed large scale batteries the the other nice thing about the RAM technology is that we go From the laboratory scale so you can work out your settings on the lab mixer and take that all the way through Our new 5 kilo omniram platform to the 36 kilo capacity RAM 5 and even the 420 kilo capacity RAM 55 It scales very well as virtually no difference between the laboratory scale and the production scale settings So what are we looking at here? Which one is this? The original lab ram and that's now been replaced. We mainly have the lab run to we're just bringing out a new lab RAM one for the half kilo capacity. This is a one kilo capacity system and the real advantage to the user is the Payback times you can achieve with this machine. So we have lots of examples from the different industries that we use Mixes that were 24 hours in conventional technology and now down to just a few minutes using the RAM So the machine pace for itself very quickly and the improvements that you can get you can do one of two things You can either make what you've previously made better with less waste Or you can actually make new materials ram will process things with viscoses much higher than conventional mixers can handle So this is the bigger slightly bigger one. So this is the 2h model This is for hazardous materials specifically so anything where there's a hazardous environment or working with explosives This is a sealed unit liquid cooled and compressed air purged. So that's what they do here hazardous environment like lithium is hazardous That's for explosives for hazardous powders. Yes for flammable flammable materials and then The only RAM is our five kilo capacity also available in a hazardous rated version So you sell the machines we resident is the manufacturer of the machines the only manufacturer to make a resident acoustic mixer in the world The only yes But she said Europe so resident Europe specifically looks after Europe and the European market We don't work through distributors. We want to look after customers directly and You said this is a big deal. I mean a lot of people need this. Yes, so we all these things as we move into the New developments in the battery industry 3d printing additive manufacture the the quality and the distribution of your ingredients the ability to process Nano powders becomes more and more important So conventional mixes are just unable to to deal with these materials and that's where the Rams really find in some benefit But this demo here had the beads, right? Yes small beads. So this what is that for it's just a demo This is a coating demonstration because the Ram is a very good use beads. It's a very versatile platform So in addition to doing mixing you can do coating those beads are very much the same as the ones you'd use for Injection molding system So if you wanted to take a plastic a standard plastic modify coat it with graphene So it went it flowed better into your injection mold or I had better Mechanical properties you could use the RAM to coat those materials before they went into that into that system So my camera is 60 frames per second. Yes, how much was it shaking per second here? So if we have a quick look at the frequency that the mix ended on it was So it's nearly It's nearly the same as my camera frame, right? Essentially should almost be able to freeze some of that motion out so that means I could have it means every Shake 60 times per second. Yes, and down or up no and It's an exact frame rate. That's perfect for the amount of beads that was there and everything so it automatically found the Resonant frequency 61.82 Hertz for the platform and what was placed on it and kept the material at that if it was an evolving mix That went from dry powders and a liquid to a paste as the mix changed the machine would Automatically adjust its resonant frequency and that's the clever bit about the technology How do you know how long it needs to shake so when is it mixed is an excellent question? One of the things that we're starting to find out is that we don't really understand lots of the materials that That we actually mix so the RAM is showing that you can actually achieve better distribution of those materials So you need other techniques be it near infrared or ultrasonic or x-ray tomography to look at those materials and really see When we get in the best answer, but in terms of It it outstrips the conventional techniques very very quickly So people already know sometimes within seconds that you've got a much better mixed product than you can achieve conventionally So what if you mix too long? Is it fine? So it's not a good idea You can you can over mix some materials So for instance if you have something that you want to preserve a particular particle size or particle morphology The longer you mix it you might start to mill that material down and that's what again Why the advantages to the speed with which RAM can mix you can get that mixed result very quickly before you've changed the particle morphology particle morphology and If you look over here And What else can you say about the applications? What do you do with this field of the? so flexible electronic stuff for things like printed circuit boards the the printing inks that are going into those are becoming more Sophisticated we're dealing with with new markets which require flexibility Or thinner materials so you need to get smaller particle fills into your printing inks RAM is excellent for mixing those in and with the batteries again Everybody's trying to squeeze that little bit extra performance out the batteries work with new materials finer materials and RAM is one The only technologies that's able to process those materials doesn't mean everybody in this industry is already customer of yours or not yet We've got a lot of customers in the industry But the number of people that are using RAM is growing rapidly so we're finding that customers previously had the laboratory scale machines They've had those a little while and now we're starting to move into the larger scale machines Because this is large scale we're talking about it goes Yeah, it's all the way up to our biggest mix of 420 kilos and we're even looking at techniques to make the process continuous So that you can actually continuously feed the materials in and take finished product off the machine So that means you could have mixed up for potentially billions of things out there. Yes, there's There really isn't any limit to the the industries and the products that RAM can be useful and the part you were talking about about When it's mixed when it's finished are you doing stuff in that that direction? No, there's other tools for measuring that kind of stuff We're doing our own research, but our customers are our main source of information So as a the customer understands their product better than anyone and they can they have the analytical techniques to support Deciding when that products mixed are how what how they should change the settings. You don't input. I put two grams of Graphene and I have these many beads. You don't need to do that You don't need to do that all you need to decide is what acceleration that you're going to mix that there are other options So your container size is an option You could decide to use vacuum or temperature control but the main input into that machine is the acceleration setting anything from one to a hundred G and Finding that right one takes a little bit of experimentation, but once you found it it mixes incredibly quickly