Black plastic for long-term use parts with a good combination of impact strength, elongation, and tensile strength

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Figure 4 ® Tough 65C Black is a versatile production-grade black material with good impact strength, elongation, and tensile strength. It provides long-term environmental stability with an injection molded-like surface quality. This material is recommended for high mechanical load-bearing batch production parts, jigs and fixtures, and prototypes that remain stable for years.

This resin features a 70°C heat deflection temperature and 35% elongation at break, and is excellent for buckles, snaps, and clips due to a 6.6% elongation at yield. Simplified post-processing speeds enable high end-to-end throughput.

APPLICATIONS

• Load-bearing parts such as handles, cranks, knobs, and levers Structural parts like brackets, snap-fits, and custom fasteners

• Small parts requiring detail and accuracy for consumer products, sporting goods, and general use

• Latching and board connectors for data devices and white goods

• Sensor holders and guides

BENEFITS

• Long-term use parts for indoor and outdoor applications

• High elongation at yield for ABS-like material; good for better snaps and clips

• Excellent surface quality, accuracy, repeatability

• Fast throughput to finished part; no secondary thermal cure required

FEATURES

• Long-term indoor and outdoor environmental stability of mechanical properties; tested out to 8 and 1.5 years (respectively) per ASTM methods

• 70°C HDT at 0.455MPa

• 35% elongation at break

• 6.6% elongation at yield

• 31 J/m notched impact strength

• 41 MPa tensile strength

• Biocompatible-capable per ISO 10993-5

• UL94 HB flammability