Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and industrial 3D printer Market launch of TPC (Thermoplastic Copolymer), a new ready-to-use elastomer powder material. By expanding the possibilities, they are continuously expanding the materials library for the additive manufacturing industry, providing customers with access to new markets and applications.
New INFINAM Process testing of the TPC material was conducted at Farsoon's Americas Demonstration Center in Austin, Texas. Both companies' philosophy is committed to an open system where customers are free to choose materials for their 3D printing applications, while they each contribute their expertise to ensure that new materials are thoroughly tested and tuned so that they can produce products with Repeatable reference parts for optimum mechanical properties.
The two teams used different materials in the X, Y and Z directions, conducted multiple tests, successfully adjusted the machine parameters, and generated the Evonik material data sheet, which can accurately reflect the material characteristics. Ray, Application and Technology Presales, Farsoon North America Inc. Jones said: "We saw the strength and flexibility of this new TPC material. It has excellent elasticity and is easy to process with Farsoon's powder bed fusion technology. Post-processing is also very efficient, from demoulding and From sandblasting to dust removal."
INFINAM TPC is the first high performance flexible thermoplastic copolyester powder on the market. Parts printed with TPC have incredible tear strength, excellent elongation at break, outstanding impact resistance, and excellent resilience. TPC prints consistently and reliably, is easy to post-process, and offers good material properties for a variety of applications in markets such as automotive, sporting goods, and medical.
Don, General Manager of Farsoon North America Xu said: "We are very pleased to cooperate with Evonik's materials experts to develop new TPC materials. With Farsoon's open system, together with Evonik, we can produce parts with excellent elasticity, allowing us to develop new TPC materials in the material. In terms of choice, we provide customers with more options.”
Arnim, Director of Powder Bed Fusion at Evonik Dr. Kraatz said: "We believe that an open source platform is a market growth enabler, enabling 3D printing at unlimited scale. Furthermore, an open technology approach fits with our focus on developing off-the-shelf high-performance materials in major 3D printing technologies." Two years ago, our PA613 powder was successfully verified on Farsoon Hi-Tech's machines, and now we jointly enter the market for 3D applications based on elastomers. This will bring new opportunities for users to manufacture strong Tough parts, thus promoting the development of 3D printing."
With the announcement of this collaboration, Evonik and Farsoon will send existing customers INFINAM® TPC sample prints and provide free 20kg test kits to any customer interested in testing.
In 2021, Farsoon Hi-Tech and Evonik announced for the first time their cooperation in the development of new 3D printing materials with higher temperature resistance. As part of this, the specialty chemicals company has successfully tested INFINAM, a ready-to-use polymer powder with increased temperature resistance, on Farsoon's ST252P and HT403P series machines PA 6005 P (polyamide 613).
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