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- Lot datasheet + parameters drying and extrusion settings for your LFAM system
- Dry, sealed packaging shipped ready to run, with a re-dry schedule
Caracol TPE Pellets – Flexible Feedstock for Large-Format 3D Printing
Flexible TPE pellets qualified for large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) — rubber-like elasticity and a range of Shore-hardness grades for big seals, gaskets, and grips at pellet cost.
- ✓ Rubber-like flexibility with vibration and impact damping — soft to semi-rigid grades
- ✓ Ships dry with a lot datasheet + drying, flow, and retraction parameters
- ✓ Lead time: 1–2 business days from L.A. stock — volume & PO on request
What your process engineer actually checks
Rubber-like flexibility you can print big
TPE stretches, compresses, and rebounds like rubber, damps vibration and impact, and comes in a range of Shore-hardness grades so you can tune the exact feel for seals, gaskets, grips, and bumpers. Printing flexible material well takes tuned flow and retraction — which ship with every lot alongside the drying schedule, so large soft parts come out clean instead of stringing.
A materials engineer on the line
Questions on drying schedules, warpage, recyclate ratios, or glass-fiber content? A materials engineer answers directly — not a contact-form bot. Most replies in under 4 hours, NDA standard.
Caracol TPE is a thermoplastic elastomer pellet feedstock qualified for Caracol large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) extruders. It is the flexible member of the pellet family — rubber-like elasticity, high elongation, and vibration and impact damping — for large seals, gaskets, grips, bumpers, and soft-touch parts. Available across a range of Shore hardness grades, TPE ships dry with recommended drying and extrusion parameters for clean flexible prints.
Why engineers choose Caracol TPE
Four things production teams verify before running TPE on a large-format system.
Rubber-like flexibility
TPE stretches, compresses, and rebounds like rubber, so seals, gaskets, and grips flex and seal instead of cracking.
Vibration & impact damping
A soft, resilient structure absorbs shock and damps vibration — a fit for bumpers, mounts, and protective surfaces.
Shore hardness range
Grades from soft to semi-rigid let you tune the exact feel and compression for grips, seals, and soft-touch parts.
Large flexible parts
LFAM makes big seals, gaskets, and soft tooling practical to print instead of molding — fast, and without tooling cost.
How Additive Plus delivers it
Every order ships production-ready — qualified feedstock, parameters, and a datasheet.
Source & qualify
Thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) sourced and qualified against Caracol's extrusion testing so the pellet runs on LFAM systems without a re-development cycle.
Dry & screen
TPE absorbs moisture and must run dry to avoid bubbling. We ship it dry and specify a re-dry schedule, plus tuned flow and retraction so flexible parts print clean.
Verify & document
Each lot ships with a datasheet and recommended drying and extrusion parameters, so you reorder the same behavior — not a new qualification.
Material overview
TPE (thermoplastic elastomer) combines the elasticity of rubber with the processability of a thermoplastic: it stretches, compresses, and rebounds, damps vibration and impact, and comes in a range of Shore hardness grades from soft to semi-rigid. On a large-format extruder it produces big flexible parts — seals, gaskets, grips, bumpers, and soft-touch surfaces — that would be slow or costly to mold. Printing flexible material well takes tuned flow and retraction, which the shipped parameters cover.
Technical specifications
Representative TPE properties; values vary widely by Shore-hardness grade. Lot-specific values are on the datasheet shipped with every order. Confirm exact figures with a materials engineer for design-critical work.
| Property | Typical value |
|---|---|
| Polymer | Thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) |
| Form | Pellets (granulate) for LFAM/FGF extruders |
| Hardness | Shore ~40A–90A (grade-dependent) |
| Density | ~1.10–1.20 g/cm³ (grade-dependent) |
| Tensile strength | 5–25 MPa (grade-dependent) |
| Elongation at break | 300–700% |
| Extrusion temperature | 200–230 °C |
| Recommended drying | 60–70 °C for 2–3 h before printing |
| Reinforcement | Shore-hardness grades on request |
Typical applications
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Why source TPE through Additive Plus
- Qualified feedstock, not a generic bag of pellets — sourced and qualified against Caracol LFAM extrusion, shipped dry with a datasheet and flexible-print parameters.
- Shore-hardness grades on request — soft to semi-rigid TPE tuned to your seal, grip, or damping requirement.
- Flexible printing, documented — tuned flow and retraction shipped with every lot so soft parts print clean instead of stringing.
- A materials engineer on the line — hardness selection, sealing, drying, and flexible-print questions answered directly. Under 4h reply, NDA standard.
| Brand | Caracol |
| Technology | FFF, LFAM |
| Printing Materials | Plastic Pellets |
| Material | TPE |
| Reinforcement | Unfilled |
| Application | Composite Tooling, Engineering, Jigs & Fixtures, Manufacturing |
Product videos
We qualify specific Shore-hardness, recycled-content, and color-matched TPE pellets against your LFAM extruder before you commit — 2–4 week custom batches.
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