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Casey Raymer talks about Carbitex carbon fiber technology
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This is Dom Layfield at the running
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event 2025 in San Antonio, Texas. I'm
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here at the Carbetex booth uh with Casey
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RMA. Casey, would you tell us a little
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bit about Carbidex and
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Absolutely. So, Carbideex is the maker
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of flexible carbon plates that's used in
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performance footwear. Been around since
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about 2012. And in performance footwear
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starting in 2016, um Carpetex has
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patented flexible technology. Um, so
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compared to a rigid carbon fiber, which
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gives you no almost no flex, very stiff,
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very kind of one fits all solution
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versus carbex that makes two different
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types of flexible plates. We have
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monoflex, which is flexible in one
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direction and stiff in the other. So,
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Monoflex is used in products like the
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Ultra Montlanc Carbon and it's stiff in
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the direction that will give you
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protection and stability on the trail.
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So, so you have that one upside down,
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right? Which way faces down in the shoe?
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Apologies.
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Yes.
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So, protection from underneath and gives
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you stabil stability and equalizes gives
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you efficient pressure distribution and
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then flexible in the other direction.
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So, still gives you a natural feel as
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you're
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walking, running on the trail.
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And then we have
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gear flex plate which is dynamically
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flexible. So, here you're still flexible
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in this direction and then in this
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direction you're flexible to a point and
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then a stiffness engages. And we work
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with brands to kind of determine how
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stiff it needs to be and when that
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stiffness engages. So
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as you're putting more into the shoe,
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when you go from walking to running, as
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you engage that MTV joint, MTO
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P joint, um, it is getting stiffer,
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which is then giving you propulsion and
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response through each step.
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That's fascinating stuff.
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All right. Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much.