Why Choose Silicone 40A Resin
The First Accessible 100% Silicone 3D Printing Material
Silicone 40A Resin is a pure silicone, without added monomer or acrylate, enabled by Formlabs’ new patent-pending Pure Silicone Technology™. Silicone 40A Resin combines the superior material properties of cast silicone with the benefits of 3D printing.
Outstanding Elastomeric Performance
Fabricate soft, pliable, and durable parts with a 230% elongation at break and a 12 kN/m tear strength that can withstand repeated cycles of stretching, flexing, and compression. Produce highly functional silicone parts with excellent chemical resistance and thermal stability (-25°C to 125°C).
Cost-Effective Rapid Prototyping and Low Volume Manufacturing
Eliminate tooling and labor-intensive casting processes to enable custom and low-volume manufacturing of silicone parts.
Newfound Design Freedom
Create customized silicone parts with isotropic properties, fine features as small as 0.3 mm, and complex geometries that aren’t possible with casting or molding.
Fast and Easy Fabrication
Benefit from the streamlined Formlabs SLA ecosystem to produce pure silicone parts in-house, in a matter of hours.
Applications
Silicone 40A Resin is a cost and time-effective solution for fabricating functional prototypes, validation units, tooling, and small batches of silicone parts. Parts printed in Silicone 40A Resin are soft, durable, with excellent elasticity, chemical resistance, and thermal stability. They are used in industries such as consumer goods, automotive, robotics, manufacturing, and healthcare.
Consider Silicone 40A Resin for:
Material Properties
Post-cured for 45 minutes at 60 ºC in a beaker of water
Shore Hardness
Ultimate Tensile Strength
Elongation at Break
Tear Strength
Rebound Resilience
Glass Transition Temperature (Tg)
Ross Flexing Fatigue (-10 °C, notched)
Ross Flexing Fatigue (23 °C, notched)
Workflow
Post-Processing
Form Wash Settings
20 min
Use Form Wash filled with 8 L of IPA and 2 L of n-Butyl Acetate. After washing, dry the parts for a minimum of 60 minutes.
Form Cure Settings
45 min
60 °C
Fully submerge the dry parts in water in a glass beaker placed inside Form Cure.
