2023年3月13日

读全文·4分钟读小矿脉本周宣布了一项300万美元的投资。该公司生产3 d打印的鞋子。投资从Sprunk和格雷格Bui铁板代言。3 d打印的鞋类公司帕克宣布了一轮300万美元的投资,其中包括资金长期耐克高管,包括前首席运营官埃里克Sprunk。Sprunk前耐克同事Greg Bui和风险资本公司更好的企业,建筑商VC和XRC实验室也参加了。Bui,作为圆的一部分,曾在耐克全球鞋类采购和制造的副总裁,加入小矿脉员工在特殊项目。小矿脉,刚从耐克的郊区开一小段波特兰,俄勒冈州总部,目前已经筹集了500万美元。该公司将使用最新的资金继续扩展业务,它说。投资作为一个引人注目的支持,小矿脉和3 d-shoe印刷、比赛技术加速发展。帕克想破解代码3 d打印运动鞋制造商为了减少浪费,让鞋子客户更快的通过使他们离家更近的地方。 Footwear manufacturing is inherently wasteful and time consuming. It requires making a mold of a foot, called a last, then piecing a shoe together around it. Most shoes are made with 65 parts and 360 manufacturing steps, according to a study Hilos did in partnership with Yale . Additional waste gets created at each step. On top of that, most sneakers get sewn and glued together in Southeast Asia, which means extra carbon emissions from shipping compared to creating products in home markets. Hilos also estimates one in five shoes go straight to landfills. Elias Stahl is cofounder and CEO of Hilos.Hannah Shea Becker/Hilos "This is an industry that perpetuates overproduction and there are so many incredible innovations happening around materials, but nothing is targeting overproduction," Hilos CEO and cofounder Elias Stahl told Insider. Hilos' technology works like this: When a customer purchases a shoe, Hilos makes another one available in a matter of days. Since the shoes are made with 3D printers, they're made in the US, not in Southeast Asia. Story continues "We developed a new way to make shoes so that the moment a customer buys, or someone walks off out of the store with something, we make and resupply that product within 72 hours," Stahl said. "We're now fulfilling at the speed as if something was made in advance and sitting in a distribution center." Hilos makes soles from a type of plastic, technically TPU, or thermoplastic polyurethane, that is made from 80% recycled material. Stahl said 100% of the TPU Hilos uses can be used again. It makes uppers from leather or knit material. A single 3D printer can make over 500 pairs of shoes a month. Hilos has access to "dozens and dozens" of printers, Stahl said, as it gets ready to scale. Hilos works with existing brands that use its technology, though Stahl declined to name brands that work with Hilos because of confidentiality agreements. The industry's biggest brands , including Nike, Adidas, and Brooks, are among those working on 3D-printed footwear. When he was at Nike, Sprunk was in charge of the company's "manufacturing revolution." Stahl and Hilos "have the passion, creativity, and intellect to break-through and lead a footwear manufacturing revolution," Sprunk said, in a statement to Insider. "Anytime you can drive disruption in an industry like footwear, it's really difficult to do," Bui said. "No one in the industry is working on serving the consumer radically differently. And if you can serve the consumer differently, that's a compelling proposition." "If you started with the premise of, 'I want to make a new footwear company,' how would you do it? You would do it the way that Hilos is doing it," Bui added. That's what drew XRC Labs to the investment. "You manufacture 12 months, 18 months ahead of demand, so you create these ridiculous excesses of product," XRC Labs general partner Al Sambar told Insider. "It ends up in landfills, being burned and destroyed. Hilos changes fundamentally the way an industry that's existed for centuries works." Read the original article on Business Insider Advertisement Yahoo Entertainment Yahoo Celebrity Yahoo Celebrity Yahoo Movies