MEDICALID 399793

Hero Flex

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Industry: Medical
Sub-Industry: Prosthetics
Year: 2025
Country: United Kingdom

Summary

The Hero Flex is a prosthetic "activity arm" designed specifically for high-impact sports, hobbies, and heavy-duty tasks. It incorporates a modular click-on, click-off connector allowing the user to quickly and securely switch between different activity attachments.

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Technology Details

Printer Technology: MJF
Printer Category: Binder Jetting
Material: Nylon PA12
Feedstock Form: Powder

Process Steps

Printer category: Binder Jetting

1
Step 1Printing
Technology
MJF
Material
Nylon PA12
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Application Profile

Cost per Part

€€

€25–€49.99

Indicative single unit production cost at time of manufacture.

Project Scale

Small Series

Sustainability Rating

★☆☆

Can depend heavily on virgin fossil fuels, produce harmful emissions, and yield non-recyclable materials. Involves high energy consumption during material manufacturing. As an AM material, requires some re-processing after use. This rating relates to the technology type only. The design, purpose and longevity of the entire object can offset any of the technology type's negative sustainability credentials.

Key Advantages

Modularity

Points of Interest

Lightweighting

Recognition

Press

Providers Involved

Providers

HPHardware Manufacturer

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