A forged product isn't as light or strong as the hand-laid stuff, but if carbon fiber is ever going to go mainstream, this looks like the way. "Diamonds have a higher cost than gold," De Oto says.

Forged Composite is a strong, lightweight material that may just replace carbon fiber in high-end cars. Read a full explanation of this high-tech material at Car and Driver.

Sheet molding compound (SMC) is a workhorse composite — in the form of a tough, thermosetting, B-staged, compression moldable sheet-form molding compound — used commercially since the early 1960s.

After three decades as a pioneer in carbon fiber development, Lamborghini has revealed a quantum leap in composite technology. The new forged composite process allows the automaker to stamp parts ...

Forged carbon fiber is a distinctive flavor of the composite structure popularized by Lamborghini, which has made extensive use of the stuff. It was first seen on the uber-exotic Veneno back in ...

Indeed, the Sigala Designs full-carbon C8 Corvette Z06 looks nuts, with a full range of forged carbon fiber body panels that kick up the visual impact by a substantial margin.

The RDB LA Spectre is about as blacked out and carbon fiber-d as one could be. The full forged carbon setup looks incredible, and the areas you can see with Mansory Blue have been hand-painted for ...

The result Lamborghini calls "forged carbon fiber." To demonstrate, Lamborghini created small chopped fiber replicas of the badges on their cars.

This time around, Unimatic and Hodinkee opted something forward-thinking and entirely different: a duo of watches with forged carbon fiber cases, each produced in a limited run of just 250 pieces.