Industrial Flex - HARZ Labs

HARZ Labs is a resin manufacturer with extensive experience in chemicals, especially polymers, that develops and produces high quality materials for all types of resin 3D printer technologies (DLP/LCD, SLA, CJP and others).

Industrial Flex is a resin for LED-LCD and DLP printers that allows to obtain parts with a high tenacity. It has mechanical properties similar to polyurethane, so it has good flexibility, which makes it suitable for the manufacture of joints, shock absorbers and other engineering elements that require flexibility and toughness.

It has a breakage deformation of more than 100%, which together with its tensile strength of 13 MPa makes it one of the flexible resins with the highest mechanical resistance.

This resin also has a low shrinkage during printing of only 0.5%, which, together with its low viscosity of 0.5 - 0.8 Pa*s, makes it possible to obtain parts with good dimensional stability.

Image 1: Parts printed with Industrial Flex resin. Source: Harz Labs

Another main advantage of Industrial Flex resin is that it can be used to add in variable proportions to other Harz Labs resins in order to reduce their brittleness and increase their elasticity*, thus being able to adjust their mechanical properties. Moreover, because this resin is available in translucent colour, it will hardly modify the shade of coloured resins (depending on the proportion used, it can dilute the colour producing less saturated colours).

*If used to add biocompatible resins, these will lose their biocompatibility.