Reactive rigidity/flexibility adjusters

Choose your property-adjustment family

Use the routes below to navigate the collection by the type of mechanical adjustment you want to introduce.

• Reactive property modifiers for tuning rigidity versus flexibility.
• Controlled network adjustment for application-driven performance.
• Mechanical property balancing across Shore ranges depending on target.
• Improved formulation versatility for printer-specific and project-specific development.

Typical use scenarios across the collection

This collection is suitable for workflows where the base resin needs to be fine-tuned toward a more rigid, more flexible or more thermally resistant property window.

• Custom mechanical tuning: adjusting hardness, softness and deformation behaviour in formulation development.
• Stiffness and toughness balancing: tuning trade-offs between rigidity and damage tolerance.
• Flexible-to-rigid grade development: creating intermediate or application-specific mechanical profiles.
• Printer-specific resin optimization: adapting materials to the process behaviour of a specific machine.
• Application-driven formulation projects: designing resin systems to meet targeted functional outcomes.

How to choose the right rigidity or flexibility adjuster

Select the most suitable route according to whether the main goal is stronger rigidity, softer flexibility, more crosslink density or higher heat-deflection performance.

• Need significant rigidity adjustment with high-viscosity route → choose HA1 HV MF Bio
• Need detailed rigidity adjustment with low-viscosity route → choose HA2 LV Bio or HA3 LV MF Bio
• Need significant flexibility adjustment → choose SA1 HV Bio
• Need detailed flexibility adjustment with low viscosity → choose SA2 LV Bio
• Need crosslinking-based rigidity increase → choose XL1 Bio
• Need higher HDT through additive tuning → choose HDT1 Bio

• Prioritise large formulation shifts → start with the high-viscosity HA1 or SA1 routes
• Prioritise finer formulation control → start with the low-viscosity HA2, HA3 or SA2 routes
• Prioritise network-density increase → start with XL1 Bio
• Prioritise thermal resistance improvement → start with HDT1 Bio

Decision tree summary

Use this simplified logic before detailed formulation validation.

• Need more rigidity → HA1 / HA2 / HA3
• Need more flexibility or softness → SA1 / SA2
• Need more crosslink-driven rigidity → XL1
• Need higher HDT → HDT1

Then validate the final route under the intended resin chemistry, modifier loading, exposure strategy and post-curing protocol.

Rigidity and hardness adjusters

For workflows requiring higher rigidity, stronger hardness or more controlled rigid-network behaviour in the final resin system.

Softness and flexibility adjusters

For workflows requiring softer response, more flexibility or more detailed tuning of compliant behaviour in the final resin.

Crosslinker for rigidity adjustment

For workflows where rigidity is increased through crosslink-density tuning rather than only through conventional hardness adjustment.

Heat Deflection Temperature booster

For workflows where the main requirement is a custom increase in HDT while keeping the rest of the resin system under controlled formulation adjustment.

A full mechanical-tuning platform rather than a single modifier

This collection is structured around four complementary tuning logics: rigidity/hardness adjustment, softness/flexibility adjustment, crosslink-driven rigidity increase and HDT boosting.

• HA1, HA2 and HA3 cover rigidity and hardness tuning routes.
• SA1 and SA2 cover softness and flexibility tuning routes.
• XL1 adds a crosslinking-based route for rigidity increase.
• HDT1 adds a thermal-performance boosting route.

The right route depends on the property target, not only on the additive name

These modifiers are most useful when the target is clearly defined first: more rigidity, more flexibility, more crosslink density or higher HDT.

In practice, the correct path is to define the mechanical or thermal target first, then validate the modifier under the intended resin chemistry, loading window and processing conditions.

Documentation, technical selection help and workflow support

Use the resources below to move from modifier preselection to formulation planning, printer-specific validation or broader technical support.

Select the right adjustment route and validate the final mechanical window

Use the route-based navigation above to identify the most relevant modifier, compare candidates in the technical overview table, and move forward with formulation-specific validation for rigidity, flexibility or thermal-performance tuning.