“…Metallic powders, such as copper powder [ 50 ] or aluminum powder [ 51 ] can also be added in the manufacturing process to improve the physical properties of the fabricated filament. In addition, some reinforcing fillers, such as silicon carbide, aluminum oxide, molybdenum disulfide [ 52 , 53 , 54 ], zirconia [ 55 , 56 , 57 ], or silicon nitride [ 58 , 59 , 60 ] can also be mixed into the recycled PLA materials to develop filaments with high wear resistance [ 61 ] to enhance the life of direct soft tooling built with filaments [ 62 , 63 , 64 ].Therefore, the filament with both excellent mechanical and physical properties can be employed to fabricate rapid tooling [ 65 ] for thermoforming, blow molding [ 66 ], plastic injection molding [ 67 , 68 ], rotational molding, or transfer molding. These issues are currently being investigated and the results will be presented in a later study.…”