Leading 3D Printing Company Formlabs Releases Its Newest Material for Fuse Series Printers: TPU
90A powder, a tough elastomer powder. The new material enables strong, functional, skin-safe components with high tear strength and elongation.
The strength and flexibility of TPU 90A powder allows users to produce fully functional parts themselves, in the Fuse Series SLS
The 3D printing ecosystem offers complete design freedom and a seamless workflow. By utilizing this material, engineers and manufacturers can bridge the gap between manufacturing stages, produce fully functional prototypes, manufacturing aids, and end-use parts with full control over their supply chain. In addition, TPU
90A powder is ideal for creating soft-touch parts such as grips, padding and padding.
This high-performance material is proven for skin contact, making it ideal for medical applications such as prosthetics, orthotics and other patient-specific devices that require custom designs. TPU
The softness and flexibility of 90A powder ensures optimal comfort and performance, improves patient care outcomes and simplifies medical device manufacturing.
Dávid, Chief Product Officer, Formlabs
Lakatos said: “At Formlabs, we are committed to enabling our customers to actually manufacture anything they want, from medical components to wearable devices. With TPU
With the release of 90A powder, we are proud to offer a material that expands the possibilities of 3D printing across many industries, enabling users to create flexible, skin-safe parts tailored to their specific application. ”
Formlabs’ growing library of SLS materials enables its customers to create parts with a range of properties including stiffness, softness, ductility and thermal stability. TPU
90A powder offers flexibility and robustness with the precision and design freedom offered by the SLS printing process, and its industry-leading properties include:
● High tear strength and elongation at break 110-310%, can be used to produce TPU parts that require strong and functional
● Low cost per part, suitable for small batch production of 3D printed flexible parts
● Skin safe, ideal for printing medical devices and wearable accessories
● Less waste, higher efficiency, 20% reuse rate.