 Hello everyone, another interview. My name is Peter Harrop. As some of you will know, I'm chairman of ID TechX and got the privilege of interviewing here on our stand at the ID TechX show. Gary Hemphill of Company Technique, trying to understand his road governance. Yes. That's interesting. You make a variety of things actually. Can you just lead us in, give us an introduction to the sort of things you do? Okay, so my group is known as the engineered powders division. We make a number of different powders and flakes mostly with the precious silver, silver palladium, palladium, platinum gold, and then we do some hybrid materials like silver coated copper, silver coated glass, other materials for specialty applications. So many of the applications you can see here, PV solar cells, dental, electrical, conductive adhesives of course for this show, conductive inks and paste, go into a multitude of the products that you're seeing at this show here. The antiseptic products would be silver, biocidal, silver. Correct. Yes, very fine. Is it, if it's not confidential, where do you get your most of your income currently? In those, that spectrum of applications. Well, what's the important part of it? Well, so conductive adhesives for diatach would be kind of closest to this show. Principal materials, the new wearables is a potentially big market for our products. Oh, indeed. Yes. You can't have the electrical perform without conductivity. No, absolutely. So the material that's most popular commercially to you at the moment is what? Silver, is it? Well, yeah. Because of the cost, silver is an obvious first choice. Yeah. But also silver has the best connectivity of any material, electrical connectivity anyway. So it's a very good first choice for making conductive materials. And when you wake up in ten years time and all has gone well, what do you think will be particularly then the main focus of your company in terms of application and the most important material? Yeah, I still think silver's going to have a very important place in the marketplace. You know, the sizes and shapes are going to change. We have to adapt to the markets that develop. So we intend to be there for our customers. And how do you embarrass the competition? What is it? What are your unique selling propositions? I think we are very responsive. We do respond to orders in a timely fashion. Does that mean responsive in terms of special requirements? Yes, so special projects basically matching up what the customer needs. In a timely fashion and also when it comes to production, we pride ourselves in keeping our lead time short no matter what product develops. And so we we always try to develop products in such a way that we can scale up and provide the materials when they need them. So mainly in the USA, you do all over the world. Very international, very international company. How many people of ours? So technically, worldwide is almost a thousand people. So we have offices all over the world. We have for our division, we have distributors all over the world. So what what else does technique do? Precious metal plating chemicals. Yes, so that's not micro powders. No, but, you know, somewhat associated with electronics. So the original and still main business of Technic is plating chemicals. There's also plating equipment is available for Technic. All right. So then there's other divisions. We have a division that makes a solder mask for basically PCB industry, but others. And then we have actually for 3D printing, we have a Technic print product that assists in washing away the support polymer when you make a polymer shape. A lot of times the polymer is left there for support until the shape is completely centered. And at that point, you need to get rid of the support material. Not always an easy feat. But the Technic print can remove it four times as fast as the competitive material. Oh, yes. That's a big plus. That's a big plus. I'm intrigued to see jewelry written up there. Well, what does jewelry mean in this context? Well, so the original some people don't know, but Rhode Island, Southern Massachusetts was once a jewelry center for the United States. So Technic was indeed. So originally started to support the jewelry industry in that part of the world, you know, costume jewelry, but also other specialty niche jewelry. And we're very interested in medical and health care, as you know, here. And nutraceuticals being 3D printed and glory knows what. Yes. Where do you come into that word medical up there? What's that related to at the moment in your company? Generally, so mostly for us, that's antiseptic applications. That's the silver by side. Right. So we do provide particulates that are incorporated into certain systems that allow you know, body contact to be extended. Yes, a lot of plastics, for instance, can't be left on or in the body for more than a few days when you incorporate silver. Yeah, that time frame extends up to six months in some of these products. Oh, indeed. Indeed. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Not nice to think about. So it gives you great stability to have your product sold over a very wide range of industries that gives some good stability. What question should I have asked? What am I missed out? I don't know. I think we've covered about everything covered at all. So that's good. I would will ask about this pretty thing. What is this telling? This is just our so this is just our name spelled out with some elements that happened to spell technique. OK, thank you so much. Well, thank you for one full interview. One full company. All right. Good luck. Thanks.