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Materials · Engineering Thermoplastics

The capability,
not hobby printing.

Industrial-grade FDM with carbon- and glass-reinforced engineering thermoplastics — the same material classes the Tier-1 manufacturers run on their own production floors. Quoted same business day, in hand the next.

01Spec by requirement

Tell us what the part is doing.
We'll point at the material.

Pick the dominant requirement — heat, strength, chemical, wear, ESD, flame-retardant, or general — and the selector returns a recommended material plus alternates. Final material confirmed on the quote.

Material Selector

What's the part doing?

Primary requirement
Material sourcing
PPS-CF10 — rigid past 425°F, chemically inertRecommended
PPA-CF — high-performance nylon — heat + chemical resistantAlt
PAHT-CF — high-temperature carbon nylonAlt

Selector is illustrative — final material confirmed on your quote.

02Full lineup

Twenty materials,
organized by family.

Flagship grades are marked — these are the engineering-thermoplastic workhorses that most clearly separate industrial FDM from hobby printing. ESD-safe grades are flagged for electronics handling.

Flagship Engineering grade — high-performance fixture / production tooling.ESD Static-safe — electronics, semiconductor-adjacent work.

Nylon

The workhorse engineering family — tough, fatigue-resistant, and available in glass-, carbon-, ESD-safe, and high-temperature variants. Where most of Allan's structural fixtures and EOAT lands.

  • PA6
    tough engineering nylon
  • PA6-GF20
    glass-stiffened nylon, holds shape under load
  • PA6-GF25
    more glass — higher stiffness and strength
  • PA6-CF20Flagship
    carbon-fiber nylon — stiff, light, low warp
  • PA12-CF10
    carbon nylon with better moisture & chemical resistance
  • PA612-CF15
    carbon nylon, balanced moisture resistance
  • PA612-ESDESD
    static-safe carbon nylon for electronics
  • PAHT-CFFlagship
    high-temperature carbon nylon
  • PPA-CFFlagship
    high-performance nylon — heat + chemical resistant

PPS

Polyphenylene sulfide — rigid past 425 °F continuous, chemically inert. The right answer when a part has to live near heat, fuels, or solvents and still hold shape.

  • PPS-CF10Flagship
    rigid past 425°F, chemically inert
  • PPS-GF20
    glass PPS — same heat/chemistry, different stiffness/cost

Polycarbonate

High-impact engineering thermoplastic. PC-FR adds a flame-retardant package — chosen where parts sit near heat, current, or weld zones.

  • PC
    high-impact polycarbonate
  • PC-FRFlagship
    flame-retardant — heat & electrical zones

ASA

UV-stable engineering polymer. Outdoor or sun-exposed parts where ABS would chalk and degrade.

  • ASA-CF08
    UV-stable for outdoor / sun-exposed parts

PET

Stiff, chemically capable engineering polymer in carbon-, glass-, and ESD-safe variants. The middle ground between commodity PETG and high-end PA/PPS.

  • PET-CF17
    stiff carbon PET, good thermal & chemical
  • PET-GF15
    glass PET — economical structural
  • PETG-CF
    easy-printing carbon engineering PETG
  • PETG-ESDESD
    static-safe PETG for electronics handling
  • PETG-rCF08
    recycled-carbon PETG

Elastomer

Flexible thermoplastic for gaskets, dampers, and parts that need to compress and recover.

  • TPU
    flexible — gaskets, vibration damping
03Material sourcing

Standard, or traceable.

Standard

Fiberon / Polymaker

The default. Quality engineering thermoplastics from Fiberon and Polymaker — the spools that ship most of the industrial FDM market. Right answer for fixtures, EOAT, workholding, and the working part of any production line.

Traceable · On request

Vision Miner certified lot

Certified, batch-traceable filament from Vision Miner with material certs on file. Pairs with the per-part digital build record (print parameters, chamber / nozzle / bed temps captured during the run). Carries a material uplift and a service fee — selected on the quote when the application requires it.

Allan Industries is not ITAR-registered, CMMC-certified, AS9100-certified, or ISO 9001-certified. Traceability is delivered through certified-lot filament + the build record, not a standing lot-control system.

04Machine envelope

What the machines do
— and what they don't.

Hardware
  • Hotend350 °C, hardened steel
  • Chamber65 °C heated
  • Nozzles0.2 / 0.4 / 0.6 mm
  • SystemsTwo industrial FDM systems with multi-material capability and a sealed heated chamber

This envelope runs every material listed above, with more chamber capacity joining the fleet next.

What we don't run
  • PEEKRequires 400 °C+ hotend and 90 °C+ chamber for crystallization. Out of envelope.
  • ULTEM 9085 / 1010Polyetherimide; out of envelope and out of compliance posture.
  • PEKKSimilar to PEEK. Out of envelope.
  • Metal AMDMLS / EBM / binder jet metal — different process entirely. Not in scope.
  • Flight-critical aerospaceAny part requiring DER approval, traceable lot certification, or certified process. Not our shop.
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