Northwest Aerospace News December 2018 | January 2019 Issue No. 6 | Page 10

C ontinuous Compos- ites owns the earliest granted patents in the world on CF3D™ — including 11 granted, 90 non-provisional, 250 pat- ent-pending concepts and 44 in- ternational PCT patent applica- tions. CF3D™ is truly the future of manufacturing. Continuous Composites is almost hidden in plain sight, located next to a restored train station from 1915 and only two blocks from the Coeur d’Alene Resort, local bars, restaurants, shopping and recreation and the lake.  The CF3D™ technology demonstrated by Continuous Composites impresses even the most astute scientific minds. The disruptive nature of their technology, including their gravity-defying prints across free space, is more than just a trick pony at trade shows. It has the science behind it to have earned many research and development (R&D) contracts and was recently awarded the 2018 Idaho Early-Stage Innovative Company of the Year award by the Idaho Technology Council. 10 NORTHWEST AEROSPACE NEWS