Material
Recycled rABS
Recycled rABS reprocesses post-consumer or post-industrial ABS waste into new filament. It offers a sustainable alternative to virgin ABS with mechanical properties that hold up well through recycling.
Manufacturing processes
About
Recycled rABS is made by reprocessing post-consumer or post-industrial ABS waste, therefore reducing the need for new raw material and reducing waste.
Unlike some recycled plastics, ABS tends to retain its mechanical properties well through the recycling process, with most research showing only minimal changes compared to virgin ABS, particularly for material that hasn't been through many recycling cycles.
It generally shares standard ABS's impact resistance and heat tolerance, along with the same UV sensitivity and yellowing risk in prolonged sunlight.
As with other recycled filaments, batch-to-batch color can vary since different sources are often mixed together.
Recycled rABS suits functional prototypes, enclosures, and general-purpose parts where standard ABS would normally be used.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.3% (lower limit of ±0.2 mm)
- Density
- 1.04 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- 1 mm
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 32 - 45 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 1618 - 2030 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 4.8 - 20%
- Flexural strength
- 60 - 76 MPa
- Flexural modulus
- 1800 - 2070 MPa
- HDT (0.45 MPa)
- 81 - 95°C
- HDT (1.8 MPa)
- 80 - 95°C
- Default layer height
- 0.2 mm
- Default infill
- 20%
- Embossing
- min. 0.4 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.4 mm
- Warping risk
- N/A
- Maximum printing dimensions
- 500 × 500 × 500 mm