Food Grade Filament
FDA-approved food-grade 3D printing filament with high flow characteristics enables fast and efficient printing, ensuring both safety and performance.
PEN-HF
Enables swift and efficient printing while ensuring safety and reliability, perfect for dental 3D printing and food-contact tools
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High printing speed: Printing speed up to 300 mm/s enables users to save time while maintaining exceptional printing accuracy
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Superior Printability: Excellent bed adhesion, minimal warping, and extremely fast print speeds at 265-275°C.
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Accessible: Delivers high-performance benefits without needing ultra-premium 3D printers.
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Precision Manufacturing: Available in 1.75mm and 2.85mm diameters with strict tolerances.
Characteristics and Benefits of PEN-HF in FDM Applications:
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Exceptional temperature resistance and barrier properties for demanding environments.
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Suitable for applications requiring autoclave, gmma, and EtO sterilization compatibility.
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FDA food-contact approved, complies with RoHS2 and REACH
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With optimized printing conditions, enables water-tight and low-vacuum suitability without post-processing.
Filament Specification:
Printing Orientation:
The FDM process creates parts with a layered structure, causing mechanical properties to be anisotropic based on print orientation.*1
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Flat XY orientation: predominant mechanical strength from infill
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Side YZ orientation: predominant mechanical strength from walls
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Upright Z orientation: interlayer adhesion strength.
#: third party testing by:
*1 The values reported in TDS represent the average from a batch of 10 test specimens. For tensile, flexural, and impact properties of the 3D printed test specimens were produced using a 0.4 mm nozzle, 100% infill, print speed of 60mm/s, a nozzle temperature of 270°C and a build plate temperature of 80°C. FLXR Engineering is continuously working on expanding the TDS data
Recommended Printing Profile:
Real printing speed
CHEMICAL RESISTANCE TABLE*
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*2 The chemical resistance of PEN is evaluated by the following test method:
Specimens are immersed in the chemical (liquid) at 23°C for 30 days.
Ranking definition: A: weight change <1%, tensile strength retained >95%;
B: weight change between 1~10%, tensile strength retained >75%;
C: weight change >10%, tensile strength retained <75%;
D: swelled or dissolved within 120 hours.
Revolutionizing Dentistry with FDM Technology and High-Flow Filament
3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), has become an indispensable tool in modern dental practices worldwide. This technology allows for the creation of customized dental parts, ranging from teeth models and dental aligners to complete sets of dentures.
Traditionally, dental professionals relied on scans, radiology, and physical molds to capture accurate impressions of patients' teeth, which were then used to fabricate tailored implants. Today, with 3D printing, dental providers can produce highly specialized implants faster and more efficiently, enabling quicker patient treatment and improved outcomes.
While dental 3D printing leverages various AM technologies such as digital light processing (DLP), stereolithography (SLA), and selective laser sintering (SLS), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) stands out as an excellent choice for dental applications due to its affordability, accessibility, and versatility.
Our FDA-approved PEN-HF filament takes FDM to the next level, offering unparalleled performance tailored for the dental industry.PEN-HF is a high-flow filament that enables rapid printing speeds of up to 300 mm/s while maintaining exceptional vertical resolution as fine as 80 µm. This combination of speed and precision makes it ideal for producing dental models, surgical guides, and patient-specific tools with efficiency and accuracy.
Printing condition:
Nozzel size: 0.4 mm
Speed: 200 mm/s for outer wall
300 mm/s for infill
Vertical resolution: 0.1 mm
Printing time: 3.8 hr
The buccal side
The occlusal side