Prototyping solutions

Polyamide (PA)

Being a solid material, the powder has the attractive feature of being self-supporting for the generated product sections. This makes supports (typical for stereolithography) redundant. The polyamide material allows the production of fully functional prototypes with high mechanical and thermal resistance.
Polyamide parts have an excellent long-term stability and are resistant against most chemicals. They can be made watertight by impregnation. The PA material used by Materialise is certified as biocompatible, foodsafe and not harmful to health or the environment.

Glass filled polyamide (PA-GF)

The use of PA powder filled with glass particles (PA-GF) has a much higher thermal resistance and is typically used in functional tests with high thermal loads. 

Alumide

Alumide is a blend of aluminium powders and PA powder, which allows metallic-looking, non-porous components to be machined easily and is resistant to high temperatures. A typical application for Alumide is the manufacture of stiff parts of metallic appearance for applications in automotive manufacture (e.g. wind tunnel tests or parts that are not safety relevant), for small production runs, for illustrative models (metallic appearance), for education and jig manufacture, among other aspects.