High contrast gray plastic for long-term use parts with balanced thermal and mechanical properties

SAVE ON TOOLING COSTS AND TIME WITH DIRECT PRODUCTION PLASTIC PARTS

Figure 4 ® Rigid Gray is a production-grade gray material that delivers a surface finish comparable to injection molding and provides long-term environmental stability. The high contrast gray color is ideal for parts requiring high feature definition like texture and lettering. This material is suitable for painting, plating, and laser-etching, and is recommended for prototyping and production for consumer products and general use small parts requiring high detail and accuracy.

This resin exhibits thermoplastic behavior with necking at break, making it ideal for rigid snap-fit applications such as covers. It also features 72°C heat deflection temperature and 30% elongation at break. Fast print speeds and simplified post-processing speeds enable exceptional throughput.

APPLICATIONS

• Static rigid production components like housings and covers

• Small parts requiring detail and accuracy for consumer products and general use

• Parts requiring painting, plating, and laser-etching

• Functional prototyping and low volume production parts where visualization of features is critical

BENEFITS

• Long-term use parts for indoor and outdoor applications

• High contrast gray color good for detail visualization for textures and lettering

• Fast throughput to finished part; no secondary thermal cure required

• Excellent surface quality, accuracy, and repeatability

• Suitable for painting, plating, and laser-etching

FEATURES

• Long-term indoor and outdoor environmental stability of mechanical properties and color; tested out to 8 and 1.5 years (respectively) per ASTM methods

• Tensile testing shows thermoplastic behavior with necking at break

• 72°C HDT at 0.455MPa

• 30% elongation at break

• 2200MPa flexural modulus

• Biocompatible-capable per ISO10993-5

• UL94 HB flammability

• Fast print speed up to 48 mm/hr at 50-micron layer thickness