BASF Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH
Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH enables easy, cost-efficient, and safe metal 3D printing.
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Metal-polymer composite
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No unbound metal particles
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Affordable and straightforward
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Patent-pending filament morphology to improve printability
Properties
Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH has the following properties:
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Produces stainless-steel type 17-4 PH parts
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Tensile strength of 760 MPa
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Yield strength of 680 MPa
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Vickers hardness of 257 HV10
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Elongation at break of 4%
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Auxiliary components
Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH finds its sweet spot for small series (1-20 parts) of non-critical components used in final products. This is especially the case when metal 3D printing can reduce cost, weight, or be simpler to produce than CNC machining.
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Functional prototypes
Metal 3D printing with Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH excels at creating one-off prototypes to test a specific concept or process. Use it to affordably validate ideas and designs to avoid potentially expensive tooling mistakes later on in production.
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Tooling
Custom metal tooling using traditional fabrication techniques often wastes material and is not cost-effective. But 3D printing metal using Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH allows you to produce strong and stiff tools that reliably get the job done.