3Ts homegrown Italian robots and the future of carbon fiber
3T recently wound down its carbon fiber frame production in Asia and brought it in-house to Italy. Manufacturing frames the same way would have prohibitory expensive with Italian labor costs, though, so 3T instead developed an entirely new, and highly automated, process that not only dramatically slashes the amount of manual labor required, but also supposedly makes the frames better.\xa0\n What\u2019s the secret sauce in 3T\u2019s new frame building technology, and what are the company\u2019s plans for it moving forward? In this episode of the CyclingTips Nerd Alert podcast, we sit down \u2014 virtually, of course \u2014 with 3T co-owner Gerard Vroomen, who gives us the full scoop on what this technology is, how it\u2019s different, and what its future might look like.