Figure 4 Tough Clear
High-performance transparent material that offers environmental stability to UV rays, moisture, and clarity for up to 8 years. Translucency can be made fully transparent with post-processing.
The good balance between chemical and mechanical properties makes resins and photopolymers the perfect materials to be used in many sectors requiring high levels of detail, such as aerospace, car manufacturing, robotics, or medical fields.
However, it should be noted that parts printed from resins and photopolymers are relatively fragile and may deform when exposed to sunlight.
Photopolymer 3D Printing
What is Photopolymerisation?
The 3D printing technology of photopolymerisation uses a liquid photopolymer that is hardened layer by layer through a selective application of heat. With this process, physical 3D objects can be created with precision and in detail until completion. It is an effective method to creating prototypes and custom objects.
Photopolymer 3D Printing: DLP Technology
The DLP (Digital Light Processing) 3D printing technology uses a projector to photopolymerise a photosensitive resin and generate a component for final use.
Through DLP components featuring precision and finishes that are similar to those of injection moulding can be achieved, and it offers high productivity due to the physics of the process. In this way, we can quickly meet any kind of needs and requirements, from toys to jewellery moulds, dental moulds, and other objects with refined details.
We offer materials such as flexible materials (with different degrees of shore A hardness), high-temperature resistant materials (up to 300 °C), bio-compatible materials, and flame-retardant certified materials.
Photopolymer 3D Printing: SLA Technology
SLA (stereolithography) technology uses a light source, such as a laser beam or projector, to transform photopolymers into hard plastic. This makes it possible to create high resolution, precise, and versatile objects with highly accurate details. Unlike DLP technology, SLA printing offers smoother surface finishes, as resin is polymerised point by point on the print bed.
During the SLA process, a concentrated beam of ultraviolet light or laser creates each layer of the desired object by cross-linking or degrading a liquid photopolymer inside in a vat.
Photopolymer 3D Printing: materials
3D printing with resin uses special materials with high elasticity, stiffness, or other special characteristics dictated by the application.
Figure 4 Tough 60C White
With a heat deflection temperature of 65˚C and an elongation at break of 23%, this technopolymer is perfect for durable parts requiring strength and flexibility. It is also required for wearables touching the skin and medical parts requiring ISO-10993-5 and 10993-10 bio-compatible capabilities.
Figure 4 Tough 65C Black
Versatile high-performance black thermopolymer with excellent impact strength, a heat deflection temperature of 70˚C, elongation at break of 35%, and UL94 HB flammability rating.
Figure 4 High Temp 150°C FR Black
Flame-retardant thermopolymer, compliant with UL94 V0 standard with a heat deflection temperature >150˚C. Ideal for making plastic parts for aerospace and defence, automotive and motor sports, as well as consumer electronics applications.
Figure 4 Rubber 65A BLK
High-performance photopolymer exhibiting tear resistance. With Shore 65A hardness and compliant with UL94 HB flammability test standards, it creates rubber parts with high-performance properties in production.
Figure 4 HI Temp 300-AMB
Translucent thermopolymer resistant to high temperatures, with a heat deflection temperature (HDT) exceeding 300 °C under both low and high stress (HDT at 0.455 and 1.82 MPa). Ideal for HVAC, consumer appliances, engine compartments, stators, moulds, and similar applications.
Figure 4 PRO Black 10
High-performance rigid thermopolymer with thermoplastic mechanical properties and long-term environmental stability. It shows a heat deflection temperature of 70˚C, elongation at break of 12%, and UL94 HB flammability rating.
Photopolymer 3D Printing: Possible Uses
Our resins can be used in many sectors due to their aesthetic qualities and the ability to create products with a high degree of detail:
- Production of models for jewellery parts
- Production of rigid parts
- Prototypes of consumer goods and electronic components
- Fast moving consumer products
- Products for painting or plating
- Conceptual and marketing models
- Enclosures and casings
- Flexible items, hoses, sealing strips, insulation elements, washers, gaskets
- Medical applications
Why Choose Photopolymer 3D Printing?
3D printing using photopolymers and resins can be used to build nearly anything related to prototyping or modelling with excellent characteristics, thus ensuring significant advantages:
- high final quality
- elastomeric properties
- resistance to high temperature
- customisation during production
- production speed
- reduced costs