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BASF 3D Printing Solutions launches new ideas at St Louis event

09/04/2018
BASF 3D Printing Solutions launches new ideas at St Louis event
A division of chemicals manufacturer BASF devoted to 3D printing had a large presence at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference in St Louis, Missouri, (April 8-12).

Announcements that BASF 3D Printing Solutions made at the event included a joint-agreement on distribution of industrial filament materials with Texas-based Essentium Materials. Both companies are pooling a substantial part of their industrial filament materials under the name Ultrafuse.

BASF 3D Printing Solutions also used the St Louis event to introduce Ultrasint PA6 LM X085, a new material for use in selective laser sintering (SLS) processes. This grey polyamide-6-based powder melts at about 193 degrees Celsius and is, according to BASF, easy to process on most commonly used SLS machines. “These properties allow us to offer a PA6-based material to customers where today there is mainly only a choice between different PA11 and PA12 types,” said the division’s Alexander Cochrane.

Headquartered in Heidelberg, BASF 3D Printing Solutions is a fully owned subsidiary of BASF New Business GmbH. It focuses on establishing and expanding the business with materials, system solutions, components and services in the field of 3D-printing.


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