The material decides whether a part lasts years or weeks. Here is what we work with, what each one is good for and what you can expect from it. If you are not sure, tell us about the part and we will recommend it.
High-temperature nylon reinforced with chopped carbon fibre. Our speciality: the material the CarboXtrem armrests are made of.
Properties
Good for
Loaded brackets, bike and motorbike parts, machine spares, workshop tooling. When the part really has to work, start here.
Nylon reinforced with glass fibre: nearly as strong as the carbon grade, with a little more give before it breaks.
Properties
Good for
Mechanical parts that take knocks and vibration: anchor points, hard housings, fixing parts.
The general-purpose technical plastic: forgiving, predictable and weatherproof.
Properties
Good for
Housings, guards, jigs, light-duty brackets and prototypes that are actually used.
Printable rubber. It does not break: it bends, grips and cushions.
Properties
Good for
Stops, sleeves, gaskets, guards and grips. Also as a soft liner between a hard part and whatever it holds.
The Carbon resin range (EPU, FPU, RPU, EPX): technical rubbers and fine rigid parts printed with light, at production quality.
Properties
Good for
Custom pads and cushioning — like the lattices in our elbow rests — grips, and fine parts in short runs.
Nylon powder sintered with a laser, no supports needed: the part comes out whole from the powder bed.
Properties
Good for
Hinges, mechanisms, thin housings and runs of small parts with a good finish.
Metal 3D printing, layer by layer with a laser: Ti6Al4V titanium, AlSi10Mg aluminium, pure copper, Inconel 718 and stainless steels.
Properties
Good for
Where plastic will not do: critical anchor points, parts with internal channels, nozzles, heat exchangers, tooling. Shapes a milling machine cannot cut, from one unit to short runs.
Real laminated carbon fibre, 1 to 4 mm, CNC-cut to the exact shape.
Properties
Good for
Plates, reinforcements, levers and flat parts where every gram counts.
How we laminate carbon fibre
The Carbon resin range covers what a filament printer cannot: technical rubbers that cushion like a production foam, fine rigid parts with a smooth surface, and lattices designed to the millimetre for your weight and your use.
A lattice puts material only where it is needed: stiffness is designed point by point, as if the material itself were programmed. It is what our elbow rests use — and what your part can use if it needs to cushion, breathe or weigh less.
That is perfectly normal — it is what we are here for. Tell us what it has to withstand and we will tell you the material, the lead time and the price.
Tell us about your part