Material Innovation
Engineered For Performance.
Chemistry Meets Capability
CF3D® isn’t just a printer—it’s a platform. And materials are foundational to what it can do.
Through our exclusive partnership with Arkema and its subsidiary Sartomer, we’ve co-engineered photopolymers tailored to the demands of CF3D’s precision manufacturing process. These resins are designed for rapid snap-curing, dimensional stability, and high mechanical performance. From ultra-high temperature environments to complex multi-material architectures, our materials expand what’s possible in additive composites.
Polymer Matrix Composites (PMC)
PolyMat™ High Tg is a high-performance PMC resin system, designed to provide exceptional thermal stability and mechanical strength. PMCs are made by combining polymer resins (like epoxy, polyester, or vinyl ester) with continuous fibers (such as carbon or glass). The resin binds the fibers together to form a strong, lightweight composite material. PolyMat High Tg’s high glass transition temperature (Tg) makes it ideal for aerospace, defense, and energy applications that require excellent heat resistance without compromising part performance.
Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC)
CERAMAT™ is a high-performance CMC resin system, engineered to offer exceptional heat resistance and mechanical strength in extreme temperature environments. CMCs are created by combining ceramic materials (such as silicon carbide, alumina, or carbon) with reinforcing fibers like carbon or silicon carbide. The ceramic matrix binds the fibers together, creating a composite material with outstanding thermal stability and mechanical strength. CERAMAT is ideal for thermal protection systems, where heat resistance is crucial for performance.
Multi-Material Integration
CF3D enables multi-functional composites by embedding structural and functional materials in a single print process.
Continuous fiber, wiring, optical fibers, and sensing elements are deposited together—precisely placed and cured in-situ—to create load-bearing parts with built-in capabilities. From structural power routing and strain measurement to thermal sensing and data transmission, CF3D produces components that do more than hold shape—they carry function. This integration reduces part count, eliminates secondary assembly, and drives system-level performance.
Comparing Material Strength
Composites have long outperformed metals like aluminum by offering higher strength-to-weight ratios through traditional quasi-isotropic layups. But these layups assume uniform loading, resulting in overbuilt parts with excess material.
CF3D advances beyond that. By continuous fiber steering along actual load paths, CF3D tailors strength where it’s needed most and eliminates weight where it’s not. Compared to aluminum, quasi composites alone can reduce weight by 42%¹. But with fiber steering, CF3D can achieve up to 2× the strength and stiffness of those same quasi-isotropic designs²—unlocking performance that metals and legacy composites can’t match.
