HIGH IMPACT, HIGH ELONGATION, HIGH RECYCLABILITY SLS MATERIAL WITH PROPERTIES SIMILAR TO INJECTION MOLDED POLYPROPYLENE
DuraForm PAx Natural (SLS)
Features:
DuraForm PAx Natural is a nylon copolymer that offers properties similar to injection molded polypropylene and features high impact resistance with high elongation at break in any direction, including Z. Engineered for easy processing and high recyclability, DuraForm PAx Natural is ideal for functional prototypes and end-use parts with good mechanical properties and long-term stability.
Benefits:
- Durable and tough for true functional plastic parts
- High reuse rates reduce waste and decrease production costs
- Low temperature printing enables faster parts in hand
- Excellent long-term stability; 5+ years indoor for mechanical properties and color
- Vapor-honed parts have excellent translucency and smooth finish
Applications:
- General purpose prototypes
- Orthotics
- Tooling handles and grips for use in tough, rugged environments
- Living hinges
- Liquid reservoirs per data sheet specifications
- Enclosures requiring high impact and high toughness
Durable polyamide (nylon) material for production parts
DuraForm PA Plastic
Features:
- Excellent surface resolution and feature detail
- Easy-to-process
- Compliant with USP Class VI testing
- Compatible with autoclave sterilization
- Good chemical resistance and low moisture absorption
Benefits:
- Nicely balanced mechanical properties and processability
- Build prototypes that withstand functional testing
- Produce durable end-use parts without tooling
- Create accurate and repeatable parts as demanded by manufacturers
- Machinable and paintable for demonstration parts
Applications:
- Complex, thin-wall ductwork
- Functional prototypes that approach end-use performance properties
- Appropriate for low- to mid-volume rapid manufacturing
- Medical applications requiring USP Class VI compliance, or biocompatibility
- Motorsports
- Aerospace
- Housings and enclosures
- Impellers and connectors
- Consumer sporting goods
- Vehicle dashboards and grilles
- Snap-fit designs
COMPOSITE
A glass-filled engineering plastic with high stiffness for durable prototypes and low to mid –volume production parts that require elevated stiffness and heat resistance.
DuraForm GF Plastic
Features:
- Excellent mechanical stiffness
- Elevated temperature resistance
- Dimensionally stable
- Easy-to-process
- Nice surface finish
Benefits:
- Excels in load bearing applications at higher temperatures
- Build prototypes and end-use parts without tooling
- Create accurate and repeatable parts as demanded by manufacturers
- Machinable and paintable for demonstration parts
- Improved isotropic shrinkage due to glass filler
Applications:
- Housings and enclosures
- Consumer sporting goods
- Appropriate for low- to mid-volume rapid manufacturing
- Parts requiring machining or joining with adhesives
- Complex production and prototype plastic parts
- Form, fit, or functional prototypes
- Parts requiring stiffness
- Thermally stressed parts
Composite
A fiber-reinforced engineering plastic, high temperature resistance
DuraForm HST Composite
Features:
- High specific stiffness
- Elevated temperature resistance
- Good powder recycling characteristics
- Easy-to-process
- Excellent surface finish
Benefits:
- Excels in load bearing applications at higher temperatures
- Produce durable end-use parts without tooling
- Build prototypes that withstand functional testing
- Create accurate and repeatable parts as demanded by manufacturers
- Sandable and paintable finished part surfaces
Applications:
- Housings and enclosures
- Impellers
- Connectors
- Consumer sporting goods
- Functional prototypes that approach end-use performance properties
- Parts requiring machining or joining with adhesives
- Parts requiring stiffness
- Thermally stressed parts
Tough, impact-resistant plastic for harsh environments
Duraform EX Black Plastic
Features:
- Outstanding toughness
- Excellent impact resistance
- Repeatable mechanical properties
- Easy to process
- Good powder recycling characteristics
Benefits:
- Offers toughness of injection-molded ABS and polypropylene
- Build prototypes that withstand aggressive functional testing
- Produce durable end-use parts without tooling
- Create accurate and repeatable parts as demanded by manufacturers
- Increase market opportunities through enhanced properties
Applications:
- Complex, thin-walled ductwork
- Motorsports
- Aerospace
- Unmanned air vehicles (UAV’s)
- Housings and enclosures
- Impellers
- Connectors
- Consumer sporting goods
- Vehicle dashboards and grilles
- Bumpers
- Snap-fit designs
- Living hinges
- Functional prototypes that require end-use performance properties
- Appropriate for low- to mid-volume rapid manufacturing
Tough, impact-resistant plastic for harsh environments
DuraForm EX Natural Plastic
Features:
- Outstanding toughness
- Excellent impact resistance
- Repeatable mechanical properties
- Easy to process
- Good powder recycling characteristics
Benefits:
- Offers toughness of injection-molded ABS and polypropylene
- Build prototypes that withstand aggressive functional testing
- Produce durable end-use parts without tooling
- Create accurate and repeatable parts as demanded by manufacturers
- Increase market opportunities through enhanced properties
Applications:
- Complex, thin-walled ductwork
- Motorsports
- Aerospace
- Unmanned air vehicles (UAV’s)
- Housings and enclosures
- Impellers
- Connectors
- Consumer sporting goods
- Vehicle dashboards and grilles
- Bumpers
- Snap-fit designs
- Living hinges
- Functional prototypes that require end-use performance properties
- Appropriate for low- to mid-volume rapid manufacturing
Durable, rubber-like material
DuraForm Flex Plastic
Features:
- Durable with good tear resistance
- Vary Shore A hardness without changing material
- Easy-to-process
- Good powder recycle characteristics
- Good surface finish and feature detail
Benefits:
- Withstands repeated bending and flexing
- Build prototypes that withstand functional testing
- Produce durable end-use parts without tooling
- DuraForm® FlexSeal infiltration offers array of colors
- Polyurethane infiltration creates watertight barrier and improves burst strength
Applications:
- Athletic footwear and equipment
- Gaskets, hoses and seals
- Simulate thermoplastic elastomer, cast
- urethane, silicone and rubber parts
- “Soft-touch,” overmolded grips
- Parts requiring rubber-like flexibility and durability
- Form, fit, or functional prototypes
- Parts that require joining with adhesives
- Complex production and prototype plastic parts
- Appropriate for low- to mid-volume rapid manufacturing
Styrene-based, expendable pattern casting material
CastForm PS Plastic
Features:
- Functions like foundry wax and is “foundry friendly”
- Low residual ash content (less than 0.02%)
- Short burnout cycle
- Easy-to-process plastic
- Good plastic powder recycle characteristics
Benefits:
- Create complex patterns without welds or joints
- Reduce lead times resulting in faster time-to market
- Compatible with autoclaves, low-temperature furnaces, and vacuum plaster casting methods
- Easy to assemble and repair patterns
- Rapidly test new designs in iterative process
Applications:
- Create patterns directly rather than through indirect methods
- Complex investment casting patterns
- Reactive metals like titanium
- Low melt-temperature metals such as aluminum, magnesium and zinc
- Ferrous and non-ferrous metals
- Economic, low-volume production castings without tooling
- Smaller parts can be joined to create very large patterns
- Sacrificial, expendable patterns
