MATERIAL SELECTION

What material does this job need?

PLA-Pro, PETG and ABS/ASA, extruded on our own lines to ±0.02 mm. This page matches them to the jobs our customers actually print — and says plainly where each one is the wrong choice.

  • ±0.02 MM TOLERANCE
  • SDS PER MATERIAL
  • ROHS STATEMENT
  • REACH STATEMENT
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BY JOB

Pick the job. The material follows.

Four jobs cover most of what our customers print. Each one names the material we would run, the material we would not, and the reason.

  1. JOB

    Shop tooling: jigs, fixtures, gauges

    A fixture only earns its place if the part sits in the same position every time. Stiffness matters more than toughness here, and so does the diameter holding steady across a long print.

    USE
    PLA-Pro
    NOT
    PETG — softer and more ductile, so a fixture flexes under clamp load and the part it holds moves with it.
    TENSILE 62 MPa
    PRINT TEMP 205–225 °C
    TOLERANCE ±0.02 mm
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    Magenta PLA filament coil beside a printed calibration cube with clean layer lines Ø ±0.02 mm
    PLA-ProStiff, dimensionally stable, easy to run long.
  2. JOB

    Functional brackets and fluid-adjacent parts

    Parts that get handled, knocked, bolted down, or sit near a liquid line. What you want is a material that bends before it breaks and shrugs off a splash.

    USE
    PETG
    NOT
    PLA-Pro — brittle at the layer line. A bracket that takes a knock cracks instead of bending, and it fails without warning.
    TENSILE 53 MPa
    PRINT TEMP 230–250 °C
    TOLERANCE ±0.02 mm
    Browse PETG spools
    Slate-blue PETG filament coil beside a printed functional bracket
    PETGTough, ductile, tolerant of chemicals.
  3. JOB

    Outdoor housings and automotive clips

    Anything that lives in sunlight or in a parked car. Heat and UV decide this one before mechanical numbers get a say.

    USE
    ABS / ASA
    NOT
    PLA-Pro — softens at temperatures a car interior reaches on a summer afternoon, and goes chalky under UV within a season.
    TENSILE 46 MPa
    PRINT TEMP 240–260 °C
    TOLERANCE ±0.02 mm
    Browse ABS / ASA spools
    Signal-red ASA filament coil beside a printed automotive-style clip
    ABS / ASAHeat and UV resistant, built for outside.
  4. JOB

    Print-farm production runs

    Once a part is qualified, the material question stops being mechanical and starts being economic. What matters is that spool nine behaves like spool one, so a profile dialled in on Monday still holds on Friday.

    USE
    PLA-Pro, PETG, ABS / ASA
    NOT
    Mixed suppliers — every new source means re-tuning profiles and re-qualifying parts. We extrude on our own lines, so the material you re-order is the material you tested.
    TENSILE 46–62 MPa across the range
    PRINT TEMP 205–260 °C across the range
    TOLERANCE ±0.02 mm
    Talk to us about volume
    Rows of enclosed 3D printers on steel racking in an organised print farm, spools loaded uniformly
    PLA-Pro, PETG, ABS / ASASDS, RoHS and REACH statements on request.
THE RANGE

Three materials, published specs.

Everything above comes from these three. Full specifications, spool sizes and colors per material.

  • Magenta PLA filament coil beside a printed calibration cube

    PLA-Pro

    Jigs, fixtures, end-use enclosures

    TENSILE 62 MPa
    PRINT TEMP 205–225 °C
    SPOOLS 2.5 / 10 kg

    8 colors

  • Slate-blue PETG filament coil beside a printed bracket

    PETG

    Functional brackets, fluid-adjacent parts

    TENSILE 53 MPa
    PRINT TEMP 230–250 °C
    SPOOLS 2.5 / 10 kg

    6 colors

  • Signal-red ASA filament coil beside a printed automotive-style clip

    ABS / ASA

    Outdoor housings, automotive clips

    TENSILE 46 MPa
    PRINT TEMP 240–260 °C
    SPOOLS 2.5 / 10 kg

    6 colors

Documentation on request

  • SDS · EVERY MATERIAL
  • ROHS STATEMENT
  • REACH STATEMENT
QUESTIONS

Choosing, answered.

How do I choose between PLA-Pro and PETG?

Ask what kills the part. If it fails by flexing, use PLA-Pro — it is the stiffer of the two at 62 MPa. If it fails by cracking when something hits it, use PETG at 53 MPa, which bends first. Tooling and fixtures go PLA-Pro; handled and bolted parts go PETG.

When is ABS / ASA worth the harder print?

When the part sees heat or sunlight. ABS and ASA hold up where PLA softens and where UV would chalk the surface within a season. It prints at 240–260 °C and wants an enclosure, so it is the right call for outdoor housings and automotive parts, and overkill for a desk bracket.

Do you sell carbon-filled or nylon filament?

Not today. We run PLA-Pro, PETG and ABS/ASA on our own lines. Filled materials need different tooling, and we would rather not sell a spool we cannot make to the same tolerance. Tell us what you need and we will say honestly when it becomes realistic.

What documentation comes with each material?

A safety data sheet for every material, plus our RoHS and REACH statements. These are producer documents, issued by us — ask and we will send them for any material on this page.

How is the ±0.02 mm tolerance measured?

An inline laser micrometer samples diameter continuously during extrusion. Material that drifts outside ±0.02 mm does not ship.

SAMPLES

Test it before you commit.

SAMPLE PROGRAM

  • One 1 kg spool per candidate material
  • Credited against your first carton
  • Shipped worldwide

WHAT YOU GET

  • The material as it ships
  • ±0.02 mm on the same lines
  • SDS, RoHS and REACH on request

NEXT STEP

  • Tell us the part and the load
  • We recommend one or two to test
  • Quote follows the test, not before
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