Do you have, can you share an example where early collaboration led to a better performing or more cost effective solution?

Absolutely.

Just recently, we've started working with a very large OEM that is in the energy storage sector.

And they needed binding die cuts for their assembly.

They started early.

They reached out to us, I want to say close to six months prior to needing, you know, the first articles for a small sample build.

lot of times the bigger the company they'll send us files and it's you know this is what we want you to make this is or this is what we need please quote this well we did that because you know the customer is always right but then I also saw that we had you know some opportunity here to you know make the part a little bit more user friendly it wasn't anything that they were asking for in the beginning but I saw an opportunity for it and the way that the geometry was of the part, I could make some changes to it that is, you know, using material that would have been otherwise thrown out.

advanced manufacturers such as evs electronics medical devices and aerospace they continue to demand greater precision and performance from adhesive components what opportunities do you see emerging in these industries and how is your company positioning itself to support that