In the field of composite materials, one of the most important areas for the manufacturing industry is carbon fiber reinforced materials, which can provide strength equivalent to metals and are very light. Carbon fiber is used in industries that need to consider the weight-to-strength ratio, including aerospace, automotive, electronic products, etc. The fields have broad application prospects.
now,3D printingThe carbon fiber composite material market has begun to make efforts in mass production. According to market observations from 3D Science Valley, a California-based company, Arris Composites, has recently received 48.5 million US dollars (about 340 million yuan) in Series B financing, with the goal of achieving the next generation Continuous fiber composites for the mass market3D printingProduction-level applications.
Source: Arris
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Arris will expand its proprietary composite manufacturing capabilities and open facilities in the United States and Taiwan, the latter will meet the needs of the consumer electronics industry.
This round of financing was led by Taiwan Capital (Taiwania Capital) and co-invested by NEA, Valo Ventures, and American alumni investment group Alumni Ventures Group (AVG). NEA led Arris Composites’ US$10 million Series A financing in January 2019.
Among them, Carl Bass, the former CEO of Autodesk-Autodesk, joined the board of directors as an independent director. Carl has been working as an angel investor, consultant and research partner at Arris since 2017, when Arris Composites was incubated in his personal workshop.
Source: Arris
According to China3D printingNet understands that since NEA began to cooperate with Arris Composites in 2018, NEA has witnessed the maturity of Arris Composites manufacturing technology and realized the application prospects of Arris Composites technology in consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace and other industries. Facing the next generation of product manufacturing, Arris Composites manufacturing technology can mass-produce high-performance composite materials in a new way, bringing incredible hopes to various products. Specifically, Arris Composites has disruptive potential in the following two aspects:
l Volkswagen carbon fiber products
Arris Composites realizes the mass production of high-strength and lightweight composite parts through its proprietary Additive Molding™ manufacturing technology. Through this new process, high-grade carbon fiber materials can be produced at the same speed as plastic molded products. In order to unleash the potential of the application side, Arris Composites has developed unique software tools for the enterprise’s internal design collaboration and application engineering teams. Now, the application side can design and produce products that were impossible before through the equipment and software of Arris Composites. These products are highly integrated, stronger and lighter than metal.
l Cross-border design revolution
Arris Composites’ technology has been applied in multiple markets, using revolutionary continuous carbon fiber reinforcement to make products lighter, stronger, and smarter. On the one hand, Arris Composites’ solutions meet the needs of industry and automobile manufacturing for the manufacture of corrosion-resistant, high-strength and durable glass fiber and carbon fiber structural parts. On the other hand, Arris Composites’ solutions unleash the innovative potential of consumer goods and sporting goods brands, enabling the consumer sector to seek new business advantages by improving product performance and differentiation.
Currently, consumer electronics products are Arris Composites’ fastest-growing market, and its next-generation consumer electronics devices are designed to be lighter, smaller, and smarter.3D printingTechnology makes the product update cycle short and the pace of innovation fast, and portable electronic devices are likely to be the first manufactured products Arris provides to the public. Taiwan Capital-Taiwania Capital is very impressed by the application potential of Arris Composites in the field of consumer electronics. Taiwan Capital-Taiwania Capital has deep manufacturing expertise and has a good record in expanding new high-capacity consumer electronics technologies. At the same time, Taiwan Capital -Taiwania Capital is also an ideal partner to assist Arris Composites in expanding its production scale in the consumer electronics market.
According to Taiwan Capital-Taiwania Capital, what Arris Composites attracts Taiwanese capital is its ability to manufacture consumer electronic products, which was simply impossible to achieve with the previous manufacturing technology. Although in the past time, electronic devices in portable devices have made major advances, the structure has not changed much, and Arris Composites is changing all of this.
l Recyclable composite materials
Due to the light weight of the composite material, it has the advantage of greatly reducing fuel consumption. However, recyclability has always been an issue. Arris Composites uses a new generation of recyclable composite materials, which makes the waste stream generated by today’s products become raw materials for future products.
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Established in 2017, Arris Composites has raised US$58.5 million (over 400 million yuan) in Series A+B rounds in a short period of time. Various elements of hardware, software, materials, and application development are available. The reason why Arris Composites attracts the capital market comes from production-oriented solutions. The management team comes from UCLA, California, Beckley and top alumni resources of MIT and Yale, and the founders The team’s previous work experience with Arevo and TNO.Arevo Labs from Silicon Valley, USA not only provides carbon fiber industrial grade3D printingMachine, also provides3D printingNew carbon fiber and carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced high-performance materials, and use its proprietary3D printingTechnology and special software algorithms can use existing filament fusion on the market3D printingMachine-manufactured product-level super-strong polymer parts. Arevo Labs is combining carbon nanotubes or other nanofillers with fiber-filled polymers to produce products with excellent mechanical, electrical and thermal properties.3D printingMaterial.
Regarding TNO, what TNO is best at is the composite printing of multiple materials, and it has unparalleled advantages in speed. It is fast, cheap, and flexible.3D printingPushed to an unprecedented height.exist3D printingOn the one hand, TNO’s Hyproline hybrid manufacturing system once surprised the industry.Previous3D printingSpread a layer of powder and then process a layer, the print head is in a waiting state for a long time, and through the RFID chip control, TNO makes3D printingThe process is more compact and coordinated, making this technology cheaper and more economical.
TNO high-speed, multi-material, multi-color3D printing
TNO has also developed a series of print heads that can quickly eject “inks” of different materials, including UV-curable conductive inks. The size of these “ink” droplets can be as small as 30 microns, and the printing accuracy can be Up to 0.1 microns. It can replace traditional screen printing and photolithography techniques to manufacture structural electronic equipment, and is especially suitable for electronic and circuit printing on non-planar surfaces and objects with complex structures and small spaces.
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