Continuous Composites manufactures parts using its proprietary Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D®) technology, which combines high-performance composite materials with rapid curing thermoset resins for on-demand production. This approach reduces manufacturing costs and lead times while enabling complex geometries and limitless material combinations tailored to specific applications across various industries.
Funding
$20.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Traditional composite manufacturing methods, such as hand layup, are labor-intensive, require molds, and often result in long lead times, limiting design complexity and increasing production costs. These constraints hinder the creation of optimized, high-performance composite parts for various industries.
Solution
Continuous Composites offers CF3D®, a continuous fiber 3D printing technology that automates the creation of complex composite parts on demand. CF3D® combines continuous dry fibers with a tailorable, snap-curing thermosetting resin applied by an end effector, enabling precise fiber orientation and geometric control. The system uses advanced numeric controllers and proprietary software to manage the entire material process, from fiber impregnation to instant curing upon deposition. This approach eliminates the need for molds and hand layups, reduces manufacturing costs, and enables the creation of near-net shapes with unmatched accuracy and limitless material combinations.
Target Audience
The primary customers are manufacturers in aerospace, automotive, and energy industries seeking to produce high-performance composite parts with complex geometries and tailored material properties.
Features
- Prints structural fibers (e.g., carbon, glass, aramid) and functional fibers (e.g., optical, metallic) in a single-step process
- Customizable polymer matrix materials for tailored mechanical properties, heat transfer, and environmental durability
- Software enables early and mid-stage CAD integration, geometric and physical analysis, and CAM generation/validation
- Configurable and scalable hardware solutions tailored to specific customer applications
- Prints fibers in all three dimensions with continuous anisotropic material, enabling complex geometries
- Eliminates autoclaves and is not limited to 2D stacking
- High material yield and rapid design iteration