Carbon Introduces Production-Scale 3D Printing Materials Program for Large Manufacturers

Offers Larger Resin Volumes and New Pricing Structure to Make 3D
Printing More Economical

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Carbon (www.carbon3d.com),
a Silicon Valley-based 3D manufacturing company, today announced a
materials program that will offer some of its 3D printing polymer resins
via bulk packaging, which will enable a 40 percent price reduction for
high-volume manufacturers. The first material to be offered via bulk
packaging will be RPU (rigid polyurethane) 70, which Carbon will
initially sell for $150/liter, down from the current $250/liter. Working
with its network of global supply chain partners and integrating novel
approaches for dispensing and distributing resins to a fleet of
printers, Carbon expects to further reduce the price to less than
$100/liter over the next year, significantly increasing the addressable
market for 3D manufactured parts.

“This production volume materials approach will allow us to ensure that
our partners like adidas, which will be printing thousands or millions
of parts, can do so economically compared to other manufacturing methods
such as injection molding,” said Carbon CEO and Co-founder Dr. Joseph M.
DeSimone. “No other 3D printing company has offered this because they do
not have the combination of a complete system for 3D manufacturing
combined with first class materials that enable additive manufacturing
at scale. Carbon now does offer that complete package.”

Key to the introduction of bulk packaging for its dual cure resins,
Carbon also is launching a resin dispensing instrument called an MMD
(meter mix and dispense) developed in partnership with Henkel Adhesive
Technologies, a global leader for high-impact solutions in adhesives,
sealants and functional coatings. This accessory to Carbon’s recently
launched SpeedCell™ manufacturing system allows for the proper
dispensing of RPU 70 in bulk quantities. Henkel’s partnership will
enable Carbon’s growing global industrial supply chain as demand for
these materials increases among its production partners and customers.
One such production partner, The Technology House, has already
implemented this new MMD device.

“We’ve been watching Carbon for some time now, and, as a chemical
company, we’re impressed with its innovations in materials as well as
its surge into the consumer goods industry,” said Philipp Loosen, Global
Head of 3D Printing, Henkel Adhesive Technologies. “We’re delighted to
work with such a promising company to develop hardware and materials
solutions to bring pioneering technologies like 3D printing to
traditional manufacturing and support the expansion of these
capabilities to a variety of markets and applications. This is the
future.”

Partners Ford and adidas are among some of the first companies lined up
to take advantage of these new production offerings, enabling them to
accelerate the role of 3D printing into their traditional large scale
manufacturing process. Specifically, adidas has committed to using
Carbon materials at a scale of hundreds of thousands of liters, as it
gears up to mass produce midsoles for the Futurecraft
4D athletic footwear, launched with Carbon in April 2017.

“Ford shares Carbon’s vision of 3D manufacturing and is actively working
with Carbon to accelerate the implementation for automotive
applications,” said Dr. Ken Washington, Vice President, Research and
Advanced Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, Ford Motor Company.

To further support its growth globally, Carbon has also expanded
operations into Europe teaming up with new production partners in
Germany including Fast Radius, Oechsler, and Citim, a member of the
Oerlikon Group; and, in the U.K. including Fast Radius and Paragon. Such
global growth is yet another important milestone in Carbon’s strategy of
bringing a complete system – materials, hardware, supply chain, and the
right players in the industry – together to make its additive
manufacturing vision a reality.

“So many of our customers have been asking for a better, more economical
way to produce their parts and products, and we’ve found that with
Carbon,” said Phill Adamson, managing director at Paragon. “The
company’s groundbreaking Digital Light Synthesis additive manufacturing
technology has been game changing for the industry because our customers
can go from design to production very easily with one technology, which
significantly reduces development costs and eliminates tooling
requirements. Now with this materials program it gives real scalability
for higher volume batch production.”

Carbon will be on-site at the TCT Show in Birmingham, UK on September
26-28 to discuss these exciting new developments. For more information,
visit www.carbon3d.com
or contact [email protected] to
set up a meeting during TCT Show.

About Carbon

Carbon is a Silicon Valley-based company working at the intersection of
hardware, software and molecular science to deliver on the promise of 3D
manufacturing. The company empowers its customers and partners to evolve
beyond using 3D printing for basic prototyping to producing at scale by
revolutionizing how they design, engineer, make and deliver their
products. With Carbon’s Digital Light Synthesis® technology
and its SpeedCell® system (M Series printers and Smart Part
Washer), manufacturers can unlock new business opportunities such as
mass customization, on-demand inventory and differentiated products made
with unique functional materials. Carbon's solutions also provide
substantial operational efficiencies such as the elimination of tooling
costs and decreased time to market. To learn more, visit www.Carbon3D.com.

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