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ABS
From PLA to PEEK: The Essential 3D Printing Material Guide by Filabot
Here is a comprehensive list of commonly used plastics for 3D printing, along with their key characteristics, print temperatures, heated bed requirements, and potential applications.
All of these ...

3D Printing
Closing the Loop: How to Create a Sustainable Additive Manufacturing Process with Plastic Recycling
Don’t let 3D printing waste pile up—turn it into opportunity! Recycle scraps into new filament, save money, reduce impact, and create custom materials with Filabot. Let’s close the loop together!

3d recycling
Experiment: Superworms & Styrofoam
Filabot was born from the recognition that our planet was facing a critical problem in the form of an ever-increasing and already staggering amount of plastic waste. The entire Filabot product line...

EX2
Casting Part II : Investment Casting from 3D Printed Wax
This is the follow-up to a two-part blog installment, the first part of which was shared last week. If you didn’t catch the first post, you might want to go here and read from the beginning! Where...

EX2
Casting Part I : Printing with Wax
Working within the umbrella of additive manufacturing offers the unique opportunity to utilize the technology you have created as a tool to aid further development and support new products. Perhaps...

EX6
Wood Fill PLA Pellets Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report
Here is one for all you additive addicts out there! Wood and plastic are often placed conceptually as antithetical materials due to their contrasting qualities- endlessly variable vs.. homogeneous ...

3-D Printing
Printing with Coffee Part II
After diving into the research on compounding PLA with spent coffee grounds accomplished at Washington State and assisted by our Filabot EX2, our brains were buzzing with the idea of making some of...

3-D Printing
Looking to the Future : Polymer Composites for Specialized Applications
3D prints capable of shielding radiation? It's not science fiction, it's just science- compound polymers created with ABS extruded with bismuth and PVDF!
As an emerging technological field, 3D prin...

EX6
NEW PRODUCT: PLA LX175 EX6 Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report
We care about the materials we sell and the success of using our machines. This report was done with very extensive testing beyond what we typically do with the lab testing service we provide but a...