<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — New Brand and Supply Company]]> 2013-08-20T17:20:32Z PunBB https://www.soliforum.com/topic/3342/new-brand-and-supply-company/ <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Never mind. It's loading. Very slow and took a few tries.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/1682/ 2013-08-20T17:20:32Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/33683/#p33683 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Any word on when the site will be up?

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/1682/ 2013-08-20T17:18:44Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/33681/#p33681 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Recycled filament is why black filament is often crap - it has bits and pieces from previous extrusions of other colors. 



Ideally speaking we'd use high temperature furnaces to burn plastics after their use, in any place that we currently use virgin oil.  The problem is that there are no or few regulations for colorants on the labeling of plastic bottles and in non-food plastics. Technically speaking coca cola could be using a cobalt oxide for their red logo, and it would be legal and not disclosed, so you would be in a bad position to be burning tons of it.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/192/ 2013-08-15T12:35:59Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/33048/#p33048 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> It is a problem of scale and resource distribution. It simply isn't feasible for each individual user to recycle their own material; there's not enough of it and the process/equipment aren't cheap or forgiving.

The entity most able to recycle filament is the supplier (or manufacturer, if you want to take one step back), since they have access to virgin material and can process it with used material. But all of the used material is on the consumer's side, and to ship that used material back to the supplier is almost certainly more expensive than the virgin material is in the first place, or at the very least not cost-effective.

I mean, if quality wasn't an issue or if the range of quality for acceptable 3D printing material was wider, Makerspaces could collectively recycle their members' plastics together, but I'm skeptical they'd get far without the proper quality control that a filament supplier could provide.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/1557/ 2013-08-15T12:23:33Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/33046/#p33046 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> So what is a plausible, if any, recycling solution... even if not for reuse?  Of course, that could pay for itself... unfortunately.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2857/ 2013-08-15T05:15:12Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/33021/#p33021 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Howdy y'all!  Staying busy and hope you are too!  Get bored and I would love for you to stop by and drop a "like".  If not... that's cool too!

https://www.facebook.com/3dfilamentscom

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2857/ 2013-08-15T05:11:47Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/33020/#p33020 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Also cheap excess spools for the filastruder guys might be nice wink

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/1533/ 2013-08-01T17:09:15Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31647/#p31647 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Tim Elmore and others are way more knowledgeable about this than I am, but my understanding is that the molecular make up of recycled PLA (or almost any) plastic is different  from that of the virgin grade. I believe the melting process shortens the polymeric chains? So, while you could do it, and make filament from it, it would not be the same as before. Not to mention to process of grinding the PLA to be recycled is non-trivial. I think this is one of the main reasons that everyone currently uses their Filastruder and other at-home extrusion systems only with virgin pellets. But again, I hope someone with more information than me chimes in.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/1557/ 2013-08-01T12:16:01Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31623/#p31623 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Eco friendly and custom colors are all ideas we are hoping to move toward.  I'm learning a lot from you guys that I pass down; been real helpful.  Question:  One of my "eco" friends asked me about recycling this stuff. Any ideas how that could work?  Would it be possible?  Obviously it is something that can't be done for free but I was wondering how practical such an idea would be?  Perhaps just offering a resource is enough?  Can you take a bunch of different white filaments, melt them down and reuse them as a "recycled white" color for example?

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2857/ 2013-08-01T11:24:15Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31620/#p31620 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Dave, for those of us who feel guilty printing with non-recycleable, non-compostable (currently) PLA, do you have plans for producing post-consumer PET or HDPE filament? I would love to find a supplier that offers those products.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/18/ 2013-07-31T20:39:05Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31560/#p31560 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> If you are looking for an exclusive niche, I suggest offering smaller quantities of unique colors not widely available elsewhere.  I'm thinking about natural shades like browns roughly matching finished woods (maple, cherry, mahogany, etc), ruby reds, forest-, teal- and olive-greens, silvers and golds, clears.  You could even specify the closest pantone shade to each filament so buyers would know what they were getting.  If you're going to compete with the same bright play-doh colors that everyone else is offering, then I think you're going to have a hard time.  But if I could buy 4 1/2-lb spools of unique colors for roughly the same price as others are selling, then I'd be right there!

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/676/ 2013-07-31T13:07:20Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31503/#p31503 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> Thanks for the update.  Seeing as how you are in the southeastern part of the USA, and I would rather support local economies, I am really interested in what you will have to offer!

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2252/ 2013-07-31T04:09:36Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31475/#p31475 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> elmoret wrote:
SupplyGuy wrote:

In this case we feel the "premium" comes in with the quality of material used in the filament.

What resin(s) are you using?

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/221/ 2013-07-31T02:57:11Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31468/#p31468 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> SupplyGuy wrote:

Also... be aware that the site is under construction and is no way set in prices, size, description, caliber, etc...  August 6th is launch date so check back then.

Thanks for the great responses.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2857/ 2013-07-31T02:55:15Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31466/#p31466 <![CDATA[Re: New Brand and Supply Company]]> On your webs site you have Honeycomb filaments listed at 29.95 for 1 lbs. Why so much, For 2.00 more i can get double the amount through amazon. I see the site has not launched yet, is this a typo or are you saying that your filament is that much better that it is double the price?

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/1866/ 2013-07-31T01:00:42Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/31462/#p31462