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We Do Not Make "PLA+." And Never Will

PLA+ is BS. It means something different to every company. Therefore it means nothing at all.


PLA+ was originally meant to refer to Ingeo 850 which was a version of PLA that had been changed to allow it to be more heat resistant and annealable. It is good stuff.


But PLA+ today is not that. It is often just PLA (ingeo 4043) with some stuff in it. What does that stuff do? All kinds of things. They can improve flexibility, reduce melt temp, and increase glassification temp. But again you have no idea.


Tangled is supposed to create a supply chain that is consistent. Which means that it will be the same 5 years from now. You can't build a print farm feedstock and have it change like a dating app homepage.


So our PLA is Ingeo 4043. (DataSheet Attached). We do not alter it. We simply extrude it. That means that the filament is as close in material properties to the original raw material as possible.


What does that mean.


  1. This is not high speed filament. It has not been softened or had the melt temp reduced. Print it at 200 to as high as 235C. And if you are going for high speed you will need to take the temp higher. More stuff to melt means you have to put more thermal energy into it.

  2. It is Not PLA+. It is PLA. It is true, pure PLA. That means that it will not print like your PLA+ from...whoever.


Now we recognize that this is a point of confusion and a blog post does not fix that. It is also a bit hair-splitty to the normal consumer. Over time we will work to improve resouces around this. Including profiles for different machines. But we have to focus on reducing the cost of filament first.


Long term we will introduce other materials and variants of PLA. Today our PLA is optimized for cost and dimensional conistency. But we can guarantee that we will never make PLA+. It is dumb and misleading branding with no information about the material.


Enjoy our PLA. And as usual thank you for all of your support in working to bring the cost of good quality filament down to $10 per spool.








 
 
 

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