The Continuous Fibre Injection Process (CFIP) is the first technology based on reinforcing the part after the Additive Manufacturing (AM) process instead of during it. It consists on injecting the continuous fibres simultaneously with liquid resin inside tubular cavities in the part. After this, the part is cured so that the resin, once solidified, finally acts as a mechanical interface between the fibers and the rest of the part. This breakthrough approach provides the following disruptive advantages:

• Fibre trajectories

It allows to place the fibers in all directions following complex trajectories (also between printing layers).

• Materials

It can reinforce parts made by any existing AM technology and material, including plastics, metals and ceramics.

• Integral joining

It enables to integrally join different parts with fiber continuity between them, achieving an ultrahigh joining performance.

• Large structures

It allows the efficient manufacturing of large, multi-material and multi-process structures.