The bike industry consumes some 5 million frames a year, 99% of those coming from Taiwan and China as the conventional lamination process is extremely labor intensive and time consuming. We don’t question of course the mechanical characteristics of a frame in laminated carbon, we do challenge however the limited engineering of that process and searched for alternatives to build carbon frames in Europe. Born in the Motor Valley where sport cars and motorbikes are made, the company has developped its technology to build frames through forged carbon CF-SMC (Carbon Fiber Sheet Molding Compound). This is a composite of short, pre-impregnated carbon fibers, molded using high-precision heated molds.

What are the benefits of a frame in Carbon Forging?

The SMC is an isotropic material that allows for CAE simulation in the design stage. It’s widely used in the sport car industry.

The process occupies little labor (you don’t need to lay the carbon fibers on the mold one by one as in the case of lamination) and is very fast (a frame in 20 minutes instead of many hours).

The process guarantees repeatability, consistent quality, and scalable production.

Short development time, short supply chain at costs competitive to current Chinese production.

Italian technology for reshoring carbon frame production