Meeting with Arevo and hearing about their 3D printed bike

AREVO is a young Californian startup that has developed an additive manufacturing platform consisting of a 6-axis robot capable of extruding different types of plastics and polymers, including carbon fibre. It wants to revolutionise the manufacturing sector by relying on 3D printing; it can then obtain more complex geometric shapes and considerably reduced production times. Their first application is a 3D printed bike frame but the co-founder and president, Hemant Bheda, says they can reach more sectors. We meet up with him to learn more about Arevo’s technology and future projects.

3DN: Can you introduce yourself and tell us more about Arevo?

Hemant Bheda

I started my career as a design engineer at Intel and AT & T Bell Lab. It was an excellent training ground to combine innovation and expertise. Then, I moved to California in Silicon Valley where I created several startups in different technological fields – Mediametics, Parama and Metta. The point common to all these companies was to take on the challenge of doing what, at the time, was considered impossible.

In each of these companies, we thought of solutions only from a software point of view and hired the best manufacturers. After Metta, I found myself in the world of polymer manufacturing. This is a real production experience that allowed me to understand this manufacturing business, which is far removed from the bubble of Silicon Valley. It was then that the idea of ​​developing a technology for making light structures for production applications sprang up. In addition, the idea of ​​inventing a technology that would bring production back to the United States pleased me a lot. This is where we created Arevo.