Polyamide / PA / Nylon
Polyamide, also known as nylon, is a versatile engineering plastic. It combines toughness and mechanical load capacity for robust functional parts.
Typical applications
Durable brackets, moving functional parts, assembly aids and technical prototypes that require toughness.
Why polyamide / PA / nylon?
Polyamide combines mechanical load capacity with tough behaviour. It is particularly attractive for functional parts that need to perform in use.
Performance profile
- Heat deflection temperature (HDT)
- up to 110 °C
- Tensile strength
- up to 36.4 MPa
- Elongation at break
- up to 216.5 %
- Tensile modulus
- up to 1,053 MPa
Ideas for your application
Machinery and device manufacture, fixture construction, product development and technical one-off parts.
Surface and appearance
A technical surface with a visible layer structure.
Designing your part to fit
Fits are designed for the eventual moisture condition. We orient load-bearing webs along favourable print directions and avoid sharp notches.
Finishing and post-processing
Holes and mating surfaces can be selectively post-processed.
All material properties 8 properties at a glance
- Heat deflection temperature (HDT)
- up to 110 °C
- Vicat softening temperature
- 180 °C
- Tensile strength
- up to 36.4 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- up to 1,053 MPa
- Flexural modulus
- up to 862.8 MPa
- Flexural strength
- up to 41.6 MPa
- Elongation at break
- up to 216.5 %
- Density
- 1.12 g/cm³
Your idea. Your part.
Send us your file or describe your idea. You will receive an individual quotation for production.
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