adidas
XETR: ADSTurned 3D printing into a shoe line through Carbon: the 4D midsole is a printed lattice rather than moulded foam, and the line has grown from a 300-pair friends-and-family drop in 2017 to broader releases such as the Alphaedge 4D and the 4DFWD.
- Status
- Listed
- Listing
- XETR: ADS
- Headquarters
- Herzogenaurach, Germany
- Founded
- 1949
- Ownership
- Listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ADS)
- Technologies
- Carbon DLS, lattice midsoles
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Timeline
- 2017Apr 2017
Unveils Futurecraft 4D, the first performance shoe with a midsole made by Carbon Digital Light Synthesis
- 2018Jan 2018
Executive board member Eric Liedtke joins Carbon board after adidas Hydra Ventures helped close its 200 million dollar Series D
Futurecraft went on sale in New York at about 300 dollars a pair; Carbon said production would grow from 5,000 pairs.
- 20212021
Launches 4DFWD with a Carbon lattice midsole, the result of four years of work with Carbon
adidas claims three times the forward motion of earlier 4D midsoles in mechanical testing.
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