How Carbon, an industrial-scale 3D printing startup worth $2.4B, is scrambling to design and produce FDA-approved medical equipment for the COVID-19 response
the nation needs us,” says Joe DeSimone, a former professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who launched the company, Carbon, in 2013 https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @forbes : California startup Carbon, which just got FDA approval for its test swab, is one of the dozens of companies 3D-printing medical equipment needed to fight the coronavirus https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Rainier Wolfcastle / @r_wolfcastle : There are an estimated 47,000 large commercial 3-D printers in the US, many of them sitting idle. A real administration would be ordering them put to use printing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) like this 3-D startup is doing. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Thanks: @lauramandaro
“I think this is a really great moment for Carbon—the nation needs us,” says Joe DeSimone, a former professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who launched the company, Carbon, in 2013 https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
California startup Carbon, which just got FDA approval for its test swab, is one of the dozens of companies 3D-printing medical equipment needed to fight the coronavirus https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
There are an estimated 47,000 large commercial 3-D printers in the US, many of them sitting idle. A real administration would be ordering them put to use printing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) like this 3-D startup is doing. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/..…