Carbon announced its strategic partnership with Lamborghini, the super sports cars manufacturer based in Sant’Agasta Bolognese, Italy. Lamborghini’s first production parts using Carbon’s technology are a textured fuel cap with the Urus label and a clip component for an air duct. Both parts are on Lamborghini’s Super SUV, the Urus model, which was first introduced […]
3D printing advances on-field protection for football players
Riddell and Carbon have partnered to bring custom, digital design innovation to head protection through Riddell’s new Diamond helmet platform. The helmet features a 3D printed lattice liner that is digitally manufactured using Carbon’s Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) technology. The technology is initially available in the Riddell SpeedFlex Precision Diamond helmet model, which features Riddell’s […]
Carbon and Ford expand collaboration
Carbon, a leading Silicon Valley-based digital manufacturing company, showed the first digitally manufactured polymer parts in production for Ford Motor Company. The parts include Ford Focus HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Cooling) Lever Arm Service Parts, Ford F-150 Raptor Auxiliary Plugs for a niche market, and Ford Mustang GT500 Electric Parking Brake Brackets. The companies jointly […]
Additive manufacturing replaces a punch press to make tapping tools
Additive manufacturing can be an alternative process for making parts once made through traditional machining. For example, Wilson Tool International produces a line of oil reservoirs made for its QuickTap tapping tool. Tapping tools are a core part of the punch press products, helping to eliminate secondary operations in sheet metal manufacturing. They are used […]
Carbon lowers resin prices for production-scale applications
Carbon announced a further set of price reductions for its most widely used resins, expanding upon the bulk discount program introduced last year. Effective today, EPX 82 (epoxy), EPU 41 (elastomeric polyurethane), and RPU 70 (rigid polyurethane) will be offered in bulk volumes at $50 per liter. This move will increase the total addressable market […]
Carbon and Core3dcentres expand their partnership
Carbon and Core3dcentres (Core3d) (a global company committed to leading the dental industry into the digital era by providing dental production and design solutions), announced the international expansion of their existing partnership. By expanding their collaboration into countries spanning four continents, dental labs across the world will have access to 3D printing systems based on […]
3 ways Carbon might have an edge with its 3D printing tech
By Chris Newmarker Think of Carbon’s 3D printing technology enabling a host of customized medical devices and parts. Here’s how. Over the 10 minutes that Carbon CEO Joseph DeSimone was describing his company’s 3D printing technology to a TED audience, a buckyball-shaped part rose out of a pool of liquid polymer resin in its entirety. […]
New 3D printable polymer resin for medical applications
Carbon, a Silicon Valley-based digital manufacturing company, announced the launch of its first medical-grade material: Medical Polyurethane 100 (MPU 100). This white polymer resin offers mechanical strength, biocompatibility and sterilizability, making it suitable for components of medical systems, skin-contact devices, drug-contact devices, and single-use medical device applications. With the growing need for medical tools that […]
National Dentex Labs and Carbon partner to implement 3D Manufacturing across NDX Labs in the U.S.
National Dentex Labs (NDX), the largest network of dental labs by revenue in the U.S., and Carbon, a Silicon Valley-based digital 3D Manufacturing company, today announced a multi-year agreement to help NDX’s labs across the country stay on the cutting-edge of technology through Carbon’s complete dental solution. The agreement recently commenced with Carbon M2 printers […]
Carbon introduces two additive manufacturing materials; one for strength, one for durability
Carbon, a Silicon Valley-based digital 3D Manufacturing company, announced two new additive manufacturing materials: Epoxy (EPX) 82 and Elastomeric Polyurethane (EPU) 41. EPX 82 is an accurate and high-strength engineering material with long-term durability, while EPU 41 is a production-scale elastomeric material with high resilience for making elastomeric products. EPX 82 EPX 82 has a […]
3D printing helps Vitamix rethink what is possible to design
Carbon announced its innovative partnership with Vitamix, a global leader in high-performance blending equipment for home and commercial use. Together with The Technology House (TTH), a Carbon Production Partner and leading contract manufacturer based in Ohio, the companies reimagined part design and production to create an innovative micro-fluidic nozzle at mass scale that is 10 […]
Carbon delivers a 3D Manufacturing solution for dental and orthodontic labs
Carbon delivers a complete 3D Manufacturing solution for the dental market with the announcement of two new partnerships with DENTCA and DREVE. These collaborations help deliver custom products 3D-printed dentures with DENTCA; and gingiva masks and trays with DREVE. “While 3D printing is not new to the dental market, Carbon provides a complete solution with […]
Two software tools from Carbon address additive manufacturing issues
Carbon recently added new software features to its solution suite. Coordinating the interaction between printers, materials, and printing process parameters, the software suite helps orchestrate customer visions to create differentiated 3D manufactured parts. The software is designed to be intuitive and easy to use, with features such as a browser-based user interface, regular seamless software […]
Paragon becomes the first UK Production partner for Carbon
Paragon Rapid Technologies has teamed up with US-based Additive Manufacturing company Carbon to introduce its 3D Manufacturing technology into the UK market. The addition of Carbon’s proprietary Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) technology complements Paragon’s growing 3D-printing facility, and its additive manufacturing capabilities to supply end-use parts from a wide range of engineering-grade materials. Carbon’s DLS […]
Carbon announces $200 million in funding to Accelerate a New World of Global Digital 3D Manufacturing
Carbon (www.carbon3d.com), a Silicon Valley-based digital 3D Manufacturing company, announced the first closing in a total raise of $200 million in Series D funding. Delivering a true, scalable digital 3D manufacturing platform for polymeric products, the company will use the additional capital to accelerate its momentum in disrupting traditional analog injection molding production techniques with […]
Why 3D printed lattices could replace foam
Polyurethane foam chemistry is used in many applications across industry verticals such as automotive, packaging, construction, electronics, bedding, and furniture. But innovations in foam’s comfort, performance, and safety have been evolutionary at best. Carbon reports that it can offer an alternative with its elastomer lattice innovations that leverage proprietary programmable resins and software capabilities. With […]
Carbon announces Next-Gen 3D Printing software with cloud-based computation
Carbon announced a new version of its next-gen 3D printing software that expands its tools to design, engineer and make polymeric parts using Carbon’s Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) technology and resins. With this software release, Carbon offers a variety of tools that enable customers to print parts easily and successfully the first time, optimize supports […]
Carbon introduces 3D printing silicone and biocompatibility of 6 other materials
Carbon, a Silicon Valley-based 3D manufacturing company, announced the release of Silicone (SIL 30), a soft, tear-resistant, biocompatible resin, opening up additive manufacturing applications for a range of medical and consumer products such as headphones, wristbands, and other various attachments for wearables. (According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the wearables market is expected to double […]
New resins for Carbon’s CLIP 3D printing process
Carbon, the developers of Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) and Two-Stage Cure, announces the addition of three new engineering resins to the CLIP platform. The EPX 81 resin is part of the company’s new Epoxy material family. EPX 81 was designed in collaboration with customers for high precision industrial applications like electrical connectors. An accurate […]
Using light as a chisel
Carbon 3D recently announced new funding from several strategic investors. This funding will help Carbon bring additive technology to more customers as well as participate in the trend to shift from prototyping to applications requiring final production quality parts. New investors GE, BMW Group, Nikon and JSR, invested $81 million. With funding from existing investors, […]
Carbon3D M1
Size: professional Technology: a type of vat photopolymerization Build size: 5.67 x 3.19 x 12.99 in. (144 x 81 x 330 mm) Layer thickness: approx. tens of microns Materials: custom resins with properties similar to injection-molded thermoplastics. Applications: various; prototype and production Industries: various Special features: Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) technology, which delivers build […]
CLIP cuts the cost of developing motor mount
3D printers that print themselves sounds like a feature of the Singularity—where an intelligent device is able to improve itself without human intervention. Carbon’s engineers have begun to explore this possibility by printing parts for the M1, with the M1. Carbon continues to iterate and improve its technology. An example of this can be seen […]
Former DuPont Chair and CEO, Ellen J. Kullman, joins Carbon Board of Directors
Carbon (Carbon3D, Inc.), announced that Ellen J. Kullman, former Chair and CEO of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), has joined its Board of Directors. Mrs….
First commercial CLIP-based additive manufacturing machine
Carbon (Carbon3D, Inc.) today unveiled the M1, its first commercial 3D printer. The M1 leverages Carbon’s breakthrough Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) technology and engineering-grade materials to deliver…