Technology

Out of Stealth Mode: Versatile Continuous Carbon Fiber 3D Printing

The field of carbon fiber 3D printing is developing at only a slow pace. Developed by Idaho-based Continuous Composites, Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D) combines carbon fiber reinforcement with thermoset polymers and industrial robotics to 3D print in ways yet seen by the additive manufacturing (AM) space.

Out of Stealth Mode: Versatile Continuous Carbon Fiber 3D Printing

The field of carbon fiber 3D printing is developing at only a slow pace. Developed by Idaho-based Continuous Composites, Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D) combines carbon fiber reinforcement with thermoset polymers and industrial robotics to 3D print in ways yet seen by the additive manufacturing (AM) space.

Engineering.com

Continuous Composites, Spatial Partner to Advance Composite 3D Printing

As a strategic partnership, Continuous Composites will use Spatial Corp.’s 3D software to advance its robotic Continuous Fiber 3D Printing technology.

Composites World

Spatial and Continuous Composites Announce Strategic Partnership

Spatial Corp., the leading provider of 3D software development toolkits for design, manufacturing, and engineering solutions, and a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, announces today its strategic partnership with Continuous Composites...

U.S. Company Wins Award at JEC World 2019

JEC World 2019 presents Innovation Awards to ‘outstanding’ additive manufacturing technologies. The winner of the new 3D printing category was Continuous Composites, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

The Additive Report

Continuous-Fiber 3D Printing Out-of-Autoclave Process

Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D™) combines composite materials with a 3D printing process, creating a moldless out-of-autoclave process. The result is a drastic reduction in cost and lead times. CF3D™ technology is a finalist for the industry’s most prestigious JEC World Innovation Awards 2019 in the 3D Printing category.

JEC World 2019 Innovation Awards Finalist

Continuous Composites has been named as on the of the 30 finalists that have been selected by an international jury of experts from hundreds of applications for the JEC Innovation Awards.

Inside Composites

Made in the Northwest: Continuous Composites

The goal is to revolutionize the manufacturing industry with continuous fiber 3D printing, which uses robotics to print in free space. "It completely changes the way you can use composite materials," said Continuous Composites CEO Tyler Alvarado. And this groundbreaking technology is being developed at the company's facility in Coeur d'Alene...

CdA Company’s Breakthrough Technology Attracting Interest from Big Players

Continuous Composites got its start with a stab wound. When a strand of fiberglass punctured Ken Tyler’s skin, the North Idaho inventor started thinking about the strength of the lightweight material. “It’s an amazing technology, and it’s going to change how things are built,” said Tyler Alvarado, the company’s Chief Executive Officer.

The Spokesman Review

Continuous Composites Inspires in Coeur d'Alene

Coeur d'Alene is widely known for its resort atmosphere, beautiful beaches, and outdoor living. However, less than one block from its historic and touristy main street, and a stone's throw from the lake, is something few would expect to see - Continuous Composites, one of the world's top innovators in Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D™)

Northwest Aerospace News Magazine

2018 Early-Stage Innovation of the Year Winner

As the state’s premier business innovation awards program, the Idaho Innovation Awards recognize groundbreaking accomplishments in five categories. Five winners and 10 finalists were recognized at the awards ceremony, a segment of the ITC’s ninth annual Hall of Fame celebration, held at Boise Centre.

Finalists Named in 2018 Idaho Innovation Awards Program

Finalists have been selected in the 13th Annual Idaho Innovation Awards. The Idaho Innovation Awards spotlight innovations, innovative professionals and innovative companies statewide.

Idaho Innovation Awards

Working on a Better World with Composites

The future of manufacturing is right here in Coeur d’Alene. That’s what Tyler Alvarado believes. Alvarado is the CEO of Continuous Composites, a Coeur d’Alene-based 3D printing company. “We’re ready to start telling the story of our technology,”

North Idaho Business Journal

Continuous Composites Demonstrate CF3D™ Continuous Fiber Composites

Continuous Composites teams up with robotics giant Comau and software giant Autodesk to demonstrate a real-time digital manufacturing cell.

3D Printing Media Network

Tomorrow’s Composites

In material science, strength alone is often found to have its limitations so that a combination of hard and soft, rigid and flexible is an area of increasing interest for a wide range of applications from building, to sports equipment, to protective apparel.

Advanced Textiles Source

Generative Design and Continuous 3D Fiber Deposition

Generative design replicates nature’s evolutionary approach by combining artificial intelligence (AI) — specifically advanced optimization algorithms — and cloud computing to provide thousands of solutions to one engineering problem.

Weaving Threads

Continuous Composites, Autodesk and Comau Unite to Demonstrate the Future of Manufacturing

Comau has teamed with Autodesk and Continuous Composites at Automatica to demonstrate a real-time digital manufacturing cell that combines virtual sensors, intelligent design software and Continuous Composites’ patented Continuous Fiber 3D Printing Technology (CF3D™).

Another Continuous Fiber 3D Printing System, with More Options

Continuous Composites is a company that’s been working on a rather different process for 3D printing that should prove extremely attractive for certain types of manufacturing.

3D Printing Composites with Continuous Fiber

New composite manufacturing technology for multi-material, multifunctional composite structures. There is a company that has been printing in continuous composites since 2012.

Composites World

Emerging UV Curing Applications in Additive Manufacturing

At the RadTech 2016 awards dinner, creative users of UV/EB technologies were honored with Emerging Technology Awards.

UV+EB Technology

Market Watcher Lux Research Analyzes Additive Manufacturing Startup

The additive manufacturing field is crammed with numerous start-ups vying to establish their niches and differentiate themselves from peers.

3D Printing Takes on New Shape

Even as resin development takes a step forward, 3D-printed objects still have inherent structural flaws because of the layered building steps of the traditional additive manufacturing process.

Plastics Business

Continuous Scaled Manufacturing Could Revolutionize 3D Printing

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based company Continuous Composites has introduced a novel process, known as Continuous Scaled Manufacturing (CSM), that some believe could revolutionize 3D printing.

Composites Manufacturing

This 3D-Printing Technology Is All Science, No Fiction

Imagine 3D printing a car, the wall of a building, an aircraft wing or some similarly complicated structure all in one step.

Functional 3D prints with circuits now possible with Continuous Composites

When explaining 3D printing concepts to the uninitiated, there’s always that moment of disappointment when they find out that you can’t actually 3D print functional objects...

Continuous Composites is Working to Revolutionize 3D Printing

The world of 3D printing holds so much promise for many industries, and there are new technologies that are improving the 3D printing process.

Printed Electronics Now

Printing Upwards?

3D printed objects are usually built up in horizontal layers by a printer head, light or heater passing across the printing plate horizontally, but what about printing the entire part vertically in one go?

3D Printing Industry

Continuous Composites’ 3D-Printing Technology Is All Science, No Fiction

Sound like science fiction? Thanks to a revolution in the making, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho–based Continuous Composites believes it’s just around the corner.

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