Hackaday

Carbon Fiber With 3D Printing

[Thomas Sanladerer] wanted to make 3D prints using carbon fiber and was surprised that it was fairly inexpensive and worked well, although he mentions that the process is a bit intense. You can learn ...
Road & Track

If 3D-printed carbon fiber is the future, it's already here

At the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, Nissan suggested an idea at once futuristic and intuitive: Automotive components should be quickly and easily replaceable with the help of a 3D printer. The IDx NISMO ...
Machine Design

3D Printing poised to Grow Carbon Fiber Market

With a growing demand for strong and lighter parts at an affordable cost, manufacturers look to carbon fiber. Unfortunately, the process takes time, manual labor, and might experience variations from ...
CompositesWorld

Braskem, Vartega launch new carbon fiber recycling program for 3D printing filament

Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), an Americas polyolefins and biopolymers producer, announced on May 19 that it has expanded its partnership with Vartega Inc. (Golden, Colo., U.S.) a recycler of advanced ...
Business Wire

Nexa3D Unveils Xyon: A Revolutionary Carbon-Fiber Polymer for Filament 3D Printing

Xyon provides exceptional performance and broad 3D printer compatibility with better economics for both desktop and industrial applications. VENTURA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexa3D, the leader in ...
AZOM

3D-Printed Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Aircraft Parts

The aviation industry is currently seeing a shift towards urban air mobility aircraft capable of carrying 1-8 passengers. The dream of personalized flying vehicles was conceived as far back as the 19 ...
CompositesWorld

Three new 3D printing technologies for composites

Cosine Additive (Houston, TX, US) claims the premise behind its development of the large-format (1.1m x .85m x .9m) AM1 printer is simple: increase the usefulness of industrial, large format, additive ...
The Providence Journal

Mark One: World's First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Now Available for Order

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Three weeks after unveiling its revolutionary process to 3D print carbon fiber, MarkForged(TM) has officially released the Mark One(TM) 3D printer for ...
Machine Design

MarkForged: $5,000 3D printer prints carbon-fiber parts

Startup company MarkForged is now selling $5,000 3D printers that print carbon-fiber parts. Called the Mark One, the printers will start shipping in later in 2014. Start-up company MarkForged is now ...
Hackaday

carbon fiber 3d printing

We’ve seen FDM printers lay down layers by extruding plastic in a line. We’ve seen printers use sintering and lithography to melt or cure one layer at a time before more print medium moves into place ...
TechCrunch

3D Printing Goes Carbon Fiber

Meet the Mark One. Billed as the world’s first desktop printer capable of printing composite materials. For $5,000, you too can make a carbon fiber 1:1 scale model of a banana. Named aptly for its ...