BASF Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH

The Filament Enabling Stainless Steel Parts for Applications that Require High Hardness and Mechanical Strength
Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH is a filament for the production of metal components in 17-4 stainless steel on standard Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) printers.
Specifications: 1.75mm / 2.85mm
Spool Size: 3kg

 
Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH Filament is an industrial material that makes it easy to produce metal-polymer parts on a desktop 3D printer. It is nearly 100% solid 17-4 PH stainless steel. The stainless steel can be fully heat treated to high levels of strength and hardness. It is therefore ideal for Petrochemistry, Aerospace, the Automotive and the Medical Industry. Parts printed with our metal-polymer composite filament Ultrafuse® 17-4 PH obtain their final properties through a catalytic debinding and sintering process known from traditional Metal Injection Molding.

 
Benefits at a Glance

• Easy and affordable metal 3D printing
• High mechanical strength and hardness
• Good corrosion resistance
• Fully hardened enables highest strength
• Wide range of post-processing options for green parts

Example Applications

• Tooling
• Jigs and fixtures
• Functional prototypes

Material Properties

• Heat-treatable stainless-steel parts
• Increased strength and hardness by precipitation hardening
• Martensitic
• Magnetic

 
Comparison of BASF’s Ultrafuse® 316L and Ultrafuse 17-4

  316L                             

Stainless steel  

•Non-magnetic
•Excellent corrosion resistance
•Excellent weldability
•Ductile mechanical properties

17-4 PH                          

Stainless steel

•Magnetic
•Good corrosion resistance
•Heat treatable
•Very strong mechanical properties