Material
Recycled rPLA
Recycled rPLA reprocesses post-consumer or post-industrial PLA waste into new filament. It offers a more sustainable alternative to virgin PLA with generally similar, though somewhat more variable, mechanical properties.
Manufacturing processes
About
Recycled rPLA is made by reprocessing post-consumer or post-industrial PLA waste, reducing the need for new raw material and decreasing waste.
Its mechanical properties are generally close to virgin PLA, though tensile strength and especially impact resistance can be somewhat lower depending on the source material and how many times it's been reprocessed. As with other recycled filaments, batch-to-batch color can vary since different sources are often mixed together.
Recycled rPLA suits prototypes, decorative models, and general-purpose parts where standard PLA would normally be used, with the same brittleness and low heat resistance as virgin PLA.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.3% (lower limit of ±0.2 mm)
- Density
- 1.24 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- 1 mm
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 59 - 65 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 3105 - 3308 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 1.9 - 20%
- Flexural strength
- 46.2 - 88 MPa
- Flexural modulus
- 3100 - 3290 MPa
- HDT (0.45 MPa)
- 50 - 55°C
- Default layer height
- 0.2 mm
- Default infill
- 20%
- Embossing
- min. 0.4 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.4 mm
- Interlocking parts
- Yes
- Warping risk
- Low
- Maximum printing dimensions
- 1,000 × 1,000 × 1,600 mm