Essentium

Essentium PET-CF is a 15% carbon fiber reinforced polyester filament made with Luvocom® 3F resin from Lehvoss. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a semicrystalline polyester commonly used in soda bottles and automotive parts when reinforced with a fiber-filler. This material is one of the easiest filaments in our portfolio to print and has an outstanding price-to-performance ratio. PET-CF has a good balance of stiffness and strength, and when annealed it has temperature resistance of over 155˚C, and good chemical resistance for common solvents.

Essentium PCTG is a member of the copolyester family, chemically similar to PETG. Our PCTG is an easy-to-use material with incredible surface finish and excellent impact resistance. This robust material can be printed in open air and over a large temperature range. Compared to PETG, our PCTG has a similar strength and stiffness, while offering superior impact strength and chemical resistance.

Essentium’s TPU 58D-AS is an industry-first ESD safe and anti-static 58D Shore hardness thermoplastic polyurethane filament that is available in a variety of colors. This cutting-edge material resulted from a close collaboration between Croda and Essentium to develop an exclusive anti-static filament line based on Croda Ionphase™ permanent antistatic additives. It has excellent impact strength, tear strength, and abrasion resistance and is safe for clean room and electronics manufacturing applications.

Introducing Essentium’s new line of industrial grade filaments that are ESD safe. Essentium’s ESD materials are proven to succeed in an industrial setting. With non-marring surface properties, you don’t have to worry about latent failures in electronics. These materials are the only industrially proven, safe material for ESD sensitive applications where you need a material that you must trust. PCTG is an easy to print material with significantly increased impact strength when compared to PETG.

Essentium’s TPU 95A Low Friction is the medium durometer filament in our broad flexible portfolio. It balances high elongation with impressive impact resistance and tensile strength. This filament has a low friction surface that allows for easier feeding while printing.

Essentium TPU 74D-Z is a high durometer filament in Essentium’s electrostatically dissipative (ESD) portfolio. With non-marring surface properties, you don’t have to worry about latent failures in electronics. Essentium’s Z line of filaments are the only industrially-proven safe materials for ESD sensitive applications. Essentium TPU 74D-Z is a no-warp drop in replacement for ABS. It has excellent impact strength, tear strength, and abrasion resistance.

Essentium 9085 is a high performance polyetherimide blend made with SABIC ULTEMTM 9085 resin. Essentium 9085 has excellent long term temperature performance and toughness. The base resin meets FAR 25.853 and OSU 65/65 for flammability, heat release, smoke density and toxicity. Parts printed from Essentium 9085 are ideal for aerospace, automotive, and industrial components that must meet strict requirements for strength, temperature performance, and flammability.

Essentium PEEK is the highest performance material in our broad material portfolio. In addition to best-in-class printability, it has excellent thermal and chemical resistance. Essentium PEEK boasts outstanding strength, stiffness, and impact properties and is inherently flame resistant.

Essentium Flame Retardant TPU 90A has been engineered to have the perfect balance of elasticity and toughness. This filament exhibits excellent interlayer adhesion and high strain at break; the base resin is UL94 V0 certified for flame retardancy and printed samples pass FAA FAR 25.853(a) 12 and 60 second vertical flame tests for 1/16” and 1/4” thickness. Our TPU 90A FR filament is perfect for a print that needs inherent flame retardant properties with flexibility, grip, and abrasion resistance. Use this material to make flexible hinges, belts, plugs, gaskets, protective cases, overgrips, wheels, vibration dampeners, energy-absorbing lattices, and so much more.