Why Carbon for Footwear?
Performance
Innovative by design, our technology makes the athlete experience radically better through multizonal lattices made with high-performance materials
Design
Differentiate your product line by removing traditional manufacturing constraints enabling unique aesthetics, custom colors, and personalized designs
Comfort
Our digitally tailored materials and geometry provides world-class cushioning, smooth & stable functional performance and enhanced breathability
Scale
The Carbon partner network can bring your product to market effectively, working to optimize print strategies and simplify the manufacturing process
Design Insights
Create a shoe the industry has never seen before with the Carbon platform. From customizable colors to infinitely tunable lattices, your designs can be fresh and distinctive. With Carbon, you can print everything from the midsole to the outsole including heel counters, padding, aesthetic features, stabilization elements, or even the entire shoe itself.
Use Case: adidas and Carbon's Journey to Scalable 3D-Printed Footwear
4DFWD represents the power of the partnership between adidas and Carbon to design a visionary midsole unencumbered by many of the constraints of traditional manufacturing. The Carbon Digital Light Synthesis™ (Carbon DLS™) process enabled adidas designers to produce some of the most innovative midsoles ever designed, including the 4D Futurecraft, the AlphaEDGE, and the 4DFWD, which have sold millions of units.
Footwear Powered By Carbon
The Carbon Platform
Elastomeric Materials
EPU 46: Tunable softness, energy returning, faster print time, stiffer build, 40% bio-based, and printable in a variety of colors
EPU Pro and EPU Pro Expand: Wide range of durometers, novel haptics, simplified use
Carbon Design Engine
Carbon Design Engine™ online software empowers designers to make precisely-tuned, high-performance latticed midsoles, insoles, heel counters, padding and stabilization elements.
Carbon Custom Production Software
With Carbon Custom Production Software, you can automatically apply design programs based on customized input data from scans, pressure maps, or other data sources to create customized footwear or insoles without needing to manually create a design each time.
Work with a Carbon Partner
The Carbon Production Network (CPN) is a global ecosystem of leading industry design firms and contract manufacturers who are experts in the Carbon idea-to-production platform. Find a CPN partner based on your needs and leverage the power of the Carbon platform to design, develop, and produce radically better products.