How Carbon might have an edge with its 3D printing tech

Think of Carbon’s 3D printing technology enabling a host of customized medical devices and parts. Here’s how.

Carbon’s proprietary 3D printing technology combines light and oxygen to rapidly make products from programmable and biocompatible liquid resins. [Image courtesy of Carbon]

Over the 10 minutes that Carbon CEO Joseph DeSimone was describing his company’s 3D printing technology to a TED audience, a buckyball-shaped part rose out of a pool of liquid polymer resin in its entirety.

The 2015 event generated a lot of buzz because it overcame perceptions that 3D printing was a slow, cumbersome process. And Redwood City, Calif.–based Carbon has made significant strides since then, including a $200 million fundraise earlier this year that included Johnson & Johnson Innovation.

Johnson & Johnson, in fact, has a more than two-year-old strategic collaboration with Carbon to produce customized orthopedic surgical instruments and other medical devices.

So how is Carbon’s 3D printing tech potentially better, and what does that mean for medical devices?

Steven Pollack, an FDA veteran who joined Carbon as a senior staff research scientist in 2015, thinks Carbon’s advantages rest on three pillars.

Find out more on our sister site Medical Design & Outsourcing.

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