After Nike, even the German giant adidas has taken the field to help doctors, nurses and all the health personnel of the world, starting the production of personal protective equipment, indispensable to face the challenge against the COVID-19.

In collaboration with Carbon, a leading digital production company founded in 2013, adidas is producing 3D printed full-face shields. Over 18,000 visors per week that will be distributed worldwide to doctors and nurses who need them.

Thanks to 3D reticular structures, adidas is reducing the use of materials, the same materials used for the 4D midsoles of sneakers, and at the same time, increasing printing times and improving comfort.

Moreover, Carbon has opened its print files and shared them with all the companies with which it collaborates, so that anyone who has a printer and the appropriate materials, can make these masks essential for anyone facing, on the front line in hospitals, the emergency caused by the pandemic.