Material
Wood-Filled PLA
Wood-filled PLA blends real wood fiber with PLA to create a filament that looks, feels, and can be finished like natural wood, and it is prized for its appearance rather than mechanical strength.
Manufacturing processes
About
Wood-filled PLA combines standard PLA with wood fiber, typically around 30% by weight, producing a natural wood-like color, texture, and grain that can be sanded, stained, and finished using traditional woodworking techniques.
This unique appearance comes at a real cost to mechanical performance, since wood fibers don't bond with PLA as well as PLA bonds with itself. This makes the material more brittle and noticeably weaker than standard PLA, with lower tensile and flexural strength and less give before breaking.
Unlike carbon fiber composites, wood fiber can also catch fire and burn under high heat exposure.
Wood-filled PLA suits decorative models, display pieces, architectural mockups, and artistic or props work where the appearance and feel of real wood matter more than mechanical strength.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.3% (lower limit of ±0.3 mm)
- Density
- 1.15 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- 1 mm
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 26 - 71 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 2479 - 3290 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 2 - 6.5%
- Flexural strength
- 59.6 - 70 MPa
- Flexural modulus
- 2583.9 - 3930 MPa
- HDT (0.45 MPa)
- 48 - 57°C
- HDT (1.8 MPa)
- 60°C
- Default layer height
- 0.2 mm
- Default infill
- 20%
- Embossing
- min. 0.6 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.5 mm
- Interlocking parts
- Yes
- Warping risk
- N/A
- Maximum printing dimensions
- 1,200 × 1,350 × 1,200 mm