 and we're here at the ID TechX show and hi, so who are you? Hi, I'm Aaron Johnson with Accumold. We're here at the ID TechX show talking about micro molding. We specialize in high precision, small and micro-sized plastic components that's enabling technology for all sorts of applications, sensors, wearables, medical devices. If you're looking to do more in the same space or more in less space through plastics, Accumold is your team. We'd love to talk to you about how we can help you make your world smaller through plastics. And hi, and who are you? Yes, hello, my name is Petra Badra and I do business development for Accumold in Europe. I'm German living in France and bringing new contacts in Europe on board. So what are we looking at here? Can you hold a little bit higher? Yeah, so here's a variety of molded components. These several of these here are for hearing aid components, very complex molded components, flex circuit over molding, there's a fabric filter over molding, there's a little tiny gear, all sorts of micro and small mechanical components for medical and micro electronics. So how do you do this small gear? Yeah, so our specialty is in injection molding. Accumold started 30 years ago with the invention of a micro press dedicated solely to small high precision plastics and that's really where we've stayed all these years. So let's check some of these, for example, what is this? So this is a little tiny capacitor housing, it's actually a little tiny box with a very thin wall sections and a very tiny through hole of maybe only about 100 microns in diameter. So very custom to small features and small details. And this? This here is a tine for a hearing aid application. Again, very thin sections there. A lot of the components that our customers ask us about require very thin component geometries or very difficult tolerances. And what is this, for example? This here is an example of a Bluetooth antenna from many years ago, but it's an example of where we've molded an LCP, a liquid crystal polymer material on a very, very thin stamped piece of metal. This was used in laptops for Bluetooth communications. Today, this is a much smaller device, but it kind of shows some of the experiences we've had over the years. So this is a lot of small things. And what are the materials, totally old materials you have? Yeah, so at Accumold we deal mostly with thermoplastics. They range from very highly engineered materials like PEI, polyetherimid to peak, polyetheretherketone, easy for me to say. But there are thousands of thermoplastics on the market and we deal with some of the most sophisticated engineered resins. So what kind of business are you developing right here? What kind of partnerships are you doing? Yes, I mean, we are connecting in different industries. We do a lot in the healthcare industries and also a lot of companies with sensors, we're doing the sensor housings and a really wide field of industry. And this is compatible with all kinds of things people do? Absolutely, it's all custom bespoke injection molding. So we're helping companies with their next generation designs. And they're looking to shrink devices. The mechanical components often are in plastic, especially very economical for high volume type applications. And so we're here to help tell the story of Accumold and help companies with their next generation devices. Doesn't it cost a lot of money to make a new mold sometimes? Sometimes it can be expensive, but especially with plastics, the more volume there is, the more efficient that becomes. And so really that's a big advantage of injection molding. So if you're looking for high volume production, injection molding is often kind of a really good business case. Do you do big things too? We focus only on about five centimeters and smaller. Most of what we do is maybe less than two centimeters. So we're really focused on micro injection molding. So you've done billions of small things? Billions of small things. 30 years. 30 years, yes. And is it growing market? Absolutely, you hear the phrase, the world is getting smaller, micro electronics. Micro molding is a big enabling technology for that. So the more things that shrink, the more opportunity there is for micro plastics. So hearing aids are very small? Hearing aid, we've been in the hearing aid market for probably 25 years. And if you're familiar with today's technology, many of them are very sophisticated, Bluetooth connections and other type of biometrics. All of that has been able to buy micro technologies, micro plastics being one of those enabling technologies. And here's transparent too? So another big market for micro molding is polymer optics. Whether it's fiber optic connectors for Datacom or little parts optics for imaging, we've done several optics for medical devices that go inside the heart or inside the body for imaging or other diagnostics. So the smaller the better when it comes to minimally invasive medical devices. You have a real estate in the hearts. Absolutely. All over the world. All over the world. It's important to make it the right shape. Exactly. Otherwise there could be an issue, right? Right, so Accumuld's history is built around high precision, very close tolerance molding. So we're talking microns in many cases. Here's the smallest commercial part that we've molded that I can show you. There's a few smaller parts in development but this is only 800 microns at its longest feature. It looks like the drawing there you see in the middle. And it was part of a laser photonics package and held a little band pass filter. The toughest thing about this part was handling it, not making it. Yeah, how do you put it in the thing the right way? Well, I usually tease and say small fingers but that was certainly part of the challenge. Is it using magnetic or something or? Micro robotics and a lot of tweezers I would imagine. So there's gonna be more and more micro robots, right? I would assume so as the world continues to shrink and the demand for smaller things comes into fruition. That's what a show like ID Tech X is all about. The new technologies to help the next generation markets. So how's it been, the ID Tech X show? We love it. We have a great couple of days here. A lot of key individuals and a lot of smart people come together so we have a great opportunity here at ID Tech X. But.