Vacuum casting resin is tougher than the rest
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MTT Technologies Group product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Dec 24, 2002
MCP has launched its toughest vacuum casting resin yet: MCP 2155 was originally designed to create prototypes for automotive crash tests.
MCP has launched its toughest vacuum casting resin yet: MCP 2155 was originally designed to create prototypes for automotive crash tests.
Vacuum casting remains the leading process for creating plastic prototype parts in as little as 24 hours and can simulate the appearance and properties of most plastics, rubber and glass.
New MCP 2155 offers a high impact strength of 23kJ/m2, heat deflection of 97C and an unfilled hardness of 78D.
With the fit and feel of a hard polypropylene, the new material is ideal for prototype and short series production of bumpers, dashboards, bump strips and wing mirrors.
It can also be filled with a selection of MCP fillers to produce a stiffer material for the production of prototype hand drill bodies, and other casings.
Other MCP vacuum casting resins include those which meet FDA and UL94V0 approvals, others which offer heat deflection temperatures of up to 130C, and optically clear resins.
Most vacuum casting resins are pigmentable and can be accurately matched to any pantone or RAL shade using MCP's colour matching process.
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