lnnoflex: flexible, rubberlike elastomer material with different levels of stiffness. A material with a reduced carbon footprint and improved elastic performance.

Shore hardness 45D (slightly harder than 40D), made from Arnitel®Eco.
Arnitel®Eco is a partly bio-based Thermoplastic Copolyester Elastomer (TPC) plastic, which is derived from rapeseed oil and combines the best properties of elastomers (rubbers) and polyesters.

This material is proven to have a carbon footprint up to 50% lower than
comparable co-polyesters. The material delivers excellent adhesion in the Z-direction, meaning that the printed layers don't detach - even with extreme deformation. Especially suitable for printing flexible parts like miniature tires, drive belts, bracelets and parts that have to be extremely flexible and have to be bent often

Ultrafuse TPE 60D: flexible, rubberlike elastomer material with different levels of stiffness. A material with a reduced carbon footprint and improved elastic performance.

Shore hardness 60D, made from Arnitel®Eco.
Arnitel®Eco is a partly bio-based Thermoplastic Copolyester Elastomer (TPE) plastic, which is derived from rapeseed oil and combines the best properties of elastomers (rubbers) and polyesters.

This material is proven to have a carbon footprint up to 50% lower than
comparable co-polyesters. The material delivers excellent adhesion in the Z-direction, meaning that the printed layers don't detach - even with extreme deformation. Especially suitable for printing flexible parts like miniature tires, drive belts, bracelets and parts that have to be extremely flexible and have to be bent often

BASF Ultrafuse PP GF30 is a polypropylene reinforced with 30% glass fiber content. The fibers in this compound are especially designed for 3D-printing filaments and are compatible with a wide range of standard FDM/FFF 3D-printers. The extreme stiffness makes this material highly suitable for demanding industrial applications. Key properties of PP GF30 are:

• Extremely high stiffness
• High heat resistace
• UV-resistant
• Chemical resistant

PP GF30 is a functional 3D-printing filament which can be used in high performance-applications. The excellent mechanical properties, high temperature- and chemical resistance makes this filament highly suitable in an industrial environment.

Note! Material requires abrasion resistant nozzle like CC core, ruby tipped or steel nozzle.

The metal filament Ultrafuse 316L from BASF is an innovative metal-polymer composite for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF). It has its technical origin in the metal injection molding (MIM) technology of BASF's Catamold® product family. It enables the safe, simple, and cost-efficient production of fully metal parts for prototypes, metal tooling and functional metal parts in the simplest 3D printing process. After the subsequent industry-standard debinding and sintering, the final 3D printed part is 316L stainless steel.

The metal content in the high 90 percent range and the even distribution of the metal within the binder matrix reduces the risk of defects and increases the success rate. Due to immobilization of metal particles in the binder matrix in the filament dramatically reduces the potential hazards of handling fine metal powders when compared to Selective Laser Melting (SLM), Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) and Binder Jetting.

Ultrafuse 316L is compatible with both Bowden and direct drive extruders via the use of a non-slip surface. Possessing high flexibility, the filament can be guided through complex idler pulleys and guide roller filament transportation systems.

The main reasons why Ultrafuse 316L is cost effective are:

• Our filament works with any open FFF printer which means low investment cost in hardware
• We make use of a highly efficient and established post processing technology used in the Metal Injection Moulding (MIM) industry
• As this is a filament the material handling is much safer and very easy to handle. This allows an easy material exchange in comparison to handling with fine metal powders

The advantage of Ultrafuse 316 are:

• It is in general 1.4 tot 2.2 times more cheaper than most metal powders with less investment in hardware
• There are significant cost advantage for small and medium sized components
• The overall manufacturing costs decrease significantly  with increasing the lot size
• With additive manufacturing you can create full stainless steel parts with a high degree of complexity

NB! Because the materials debinding and sintering requires industrial equipment, we offer these as a service. Maximum size for unsintered parts is 100mm x 100mm x 100mm, but we might be able to sinter larger parts, contact us for this.

If you have questions about this or other things related to the filament, please contact us asiakaspalvelu@3d-tulostus.fi or +358102355140

Link to BASF metal sintering portal, where you manage your sintering order and insert sintering ticket to.

The Filament Enabling Stainless Steel Parts for Applications that Require High Hardness and Mechanical Strength

Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH is a filament for the production of metal components in 17-4 stainless steel on standard Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) printers.

This stainless steel can be fully heat treated to high levels of strength and hardness. It is therefore ideal for Petrochemistry, Aerospace, the Automotive and the Medical Industry. Parts printed with our metal-polymer composite filament Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH obtain their final properties through a catalytic debinding and sintering process known from traditional Metal Injection Molding.

NB! The printed part needs to be processed by debinding and sintering to produce the final part. We offer this as a service and can also provide instructions for the process. Contact our customer service if you want to now more about the process or you can buy the sintering service ticket here: https://www.3d-tulostus.fi/BASF-Metallien-sintrauspalvelu-1kg

Link to BASF metal sintering portal, where you manage your sintering order and insert sintering ticket to.

Debind & sintering service for BASF 316L & 17-4PH filaments.

Each service ticket is for 1 kg of filament. Buy multiple if you have more than 1 kg. One ticket cannot be split into 2x 500g sinterings for example.

Link to BASF metal sintering portal, where you manage your sintering order and insert sintering ticket to.