Industrial 3D Printing Solution Proves Rapid Injection Mold Tooling Production Capacity
Covestro DLP resin e-PerFORM used with EnvisionTEC’s Perfactory P4K series DLP 3D printing demonstrates faster, more cost-effective print speeds with high stiffness, high temperature performance.
Photo Credit: Covestro, EnvisionTEC
EnvisionTEC (Dearborn, Mich., U.S.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Desktop Metal, and polymer company Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) have combined Covestro’s new DLP resin e-PerFORM and EnvisionTEC’s Perfactory P4K series printer technology for a complete industrial manufacturing solution for rapid, cost-effective 3D printing of injection mold tooling.
EnvisionTEC says it tested the e-PerFORM resin with key molding institutes to validate the material’s performance. Completed mold trials demonstrate that e-PerFORM resin, with high stiffness and high temperature performance, behaves similarly to stereolithography resin Somos PerFORM for injection molding tooling.
Further tests performed by Polyvia, the French Federation of Plastics and Composites, are said to have confirmed the suitability for rapid tooling, including good results in part fidelity and in the number of shots molded in both polypropylene and glass-reinforced nylon.
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