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
Flame retardant
DuraForm FR 100 Plastic
DuraForm ® FR 100 Plastic
Material Summary:
A halogen and antimony-free, flame retardant engineering plastic, suitable for Rapid Manufacturing of aerospace parts and parts requiring UL 94 V-0 compliance.
Application Examples:
- Aircraft parts with FAR 25.853 (non-drip) and low smoke density and toxicity requirements
- Aircraft cabin, compartment & cargo parts
- Consumer products with UL94 V-0 requirements
- Enclosures and parts for computers, business equipment and appliances
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
