 I'm Dr. Briny Caw, 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 ten up to maybe a hundred 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, class speed technologies really for more robustness but also to be able to weld into existing extruded applications or injection 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 assist, 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 we can actually take the 3D CAD and make an MRI of 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 and 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 and so my final question is what do you think of the ID TechEx? Well this is our first time exhibiting at ID TechEx. 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's 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 harvesting 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 on 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.