Flexible 3D Printing Filament by Verbatim

After the Japanese manufacturer launched another line of production last year, entering the 3D printing filament market with ABS and PLA materials.

Today, they have made another step and released a new flexible 3D printing filament. It is obvious now that they didn't just get into 3D printing to be there, but to make a difference and develop the technology even further.

At first we thought that Verbatim would stick to traditional stuff and offer the common materials used by most consumers - a basic selection of several PLA and ABS of different colors in two conventional diameters - 1.75 and 3 mm. However, they decided to make something more interesting and unexpected and this new material is called Verbatim Primalloy.

The high-performance polyester based on Thermo-plastic elastometer (TPE) material is currently offered in white and in 1.75 mm diameter.

The material consists of a crystalline acromatic polyester block and an uncrystalline polyether block, making it a combination of one hard and one soft segment. It is processed at temperatures between 210 and 235 °C and thus, suitable and recommended for commonly available fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers.

Its specifications provide high performance characteristics, including resistance to oil, chemicals, flex fatigue and heat. Primalloy also features low temperature properties and a high level of hardness and stability across a wide temperature range. These features will probably attract the interest of automotive components manufacturers, producing electrical connector boots and home and industrial devices such as hand grips, goggles, buttons and toothbrushes.

From Mitsubishi Chemical, the parent company of Verbatim explain, that they see a connection between CDs, Blu-ray discs and 3D printing filament seeing them as platforms holding some digital 3D model. They decided to invest in 3D printing filament line because of their experience in polymer characteristics and the growth of this industry in the recent years.