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