The only real method available is the expensive and difficult process of laying up carbon fiber pieces by hand. To improve the process, Mark looked to 3D printing. But nothing on the market could ...

There is a demand for automating carbon fiber processes. 3D printing has integrated carbon ... engineers then customized the design for each of their Cup Series drivers before building the final ...

“We can now 3D print continuous fiber composites ... You can also directly design a part in CAD and then upload that file into our program. There, you decide where you want the carbon fiber and where ...

Components made of glass- and carbon- fiber reinforced composites, soaring in high-performance applications, can be 3D printed ... methods are being used in design of complex parts but, as ...

You can think of it as being similar to a 39 ft tall (12 m), 75-ton, autonomous 3D printer that spits out carbon-fiber layers at 328 ft (100 m) per minute. Instead of "printing" pieces ...

Startup company MarkForged is now selling $5,000 3D printers that print carbon-fiber parts ... Elisabeth Eitel was a Senior Editor at Machine Design magazine until 2014. She has a B.S. in ...

As the list of companies commercializing continuous fiber 3D ... printing with continuous fiber reinforcement. 9T Labs’ (Zurich, Switzerland) two-step Red Series technology includes a Build Module for ...

Carbon fiber is 20 times stronger than the plastics typically used in 3D printing, Mark Forged says Another engineering and design shop, Portland, OR-based ProtoPlant, is working on a Kickstarter ...