We know carbon fiber is strong: 60X stronger than steel. The problem has always been finding ways to 3D print it at speed, and for large objects.

Arevo says it's found the solution: "'the world's first high speed additive manufacturing system for continuous carbon fiber composite structures." It's literally the size of a shipping container, and it can print a volume about a meter cubed.

Companies pay hundreds to thousands of dollars per kilogram for carbon fiber products, and Arevo says it has the fastest and best way to make them on the fly. Stronger and better because it's true 3D printing, not 2.5D, and faster: a monocoque carbon fiber bike frame in about a day.

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0:00 60X stronger than steel

1:23 3D printing carbon fiber

3:40 Shipping container-sized 3D printer

5:11 Monocoque thermoplastic printing

8:55 $SMRT coin

9:25 3D printing speed

13:23 2000 3D printed bikes per month

15:40 3D printing vertically AND horizontally

17:01 Future of 3D printing

19:34 National security and manufacturing

21:55 3D printing ... 1 order of magnitude away