Aluminum Alloy

Aluminum alloys are lightweight, corrosion-resistant, and easy to machine, making them suitable for precision parts, enclosures, fixtures, and structural components. Common grades include 6061-T6, 7075-T6/T651, 2024-T351, 5052-H32, 5083-H111, and 6063-T5/T6.

Stainless Steel

Stainless steel offers high strength, excellent corrosion resistance, and good durability, making it suitable for medical devices, food-processing equipment, industrial components, enclosures, and precision mechanical parts. Common grades include 303, 304, 316, and 17-4 PH.

Carbon steel

Steel offers high strength, durability, and wear resistance, making it suitable for structural parts, fixtures, shafts, gears, tooling, and other mechanical components. Common grades include 1018, 1045, 4140, 4340, A36, D2, and H13.

Copper

Copper provides excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, along with good corrosion resistance and formability, making it suitable for electrical components, heat sinks, connectors, electrodes, and precision parts. Common grades include C110, C101, C145, and C17200.

Titanium

Titanium offers an excellent strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility, making it suitable for aerospace components, medical devices, automotive parts, and high-performance mechanical applications. Common grades include Grade 2, Grade 5 (Ti-6Al-4V), Grade 7, and Grade 9 (Ti-3Al-2.5V).

Magnesium

Magnesium is a lightweight metal with excellent machinability and a high strength-to-weight ratio, making it ideal for CNC machining, rapid prototyping, and low-volume production of aerospace components, automotive parts, electronic housings, and precision lightweight components. Common grades include AZ31, AZ61, AZ80, and ZK60.

ABS

ABS is a cost-effective engineering plastic with good impact resistance, toughness, and machinability, making it suitable for CNC machining of functional prototypes, housings, covers, brackets, and low-volume production parts. Common grades include general-purpose ABS, flame-retardant ABS, electroplating-grade ABS, and ABS-ESD.

POM

POM offers high strength, low friction, excellent wear resistance, and good dimensional stability, making it suitable for CNC machining of gears, bushings, bearings, rollers, fixtures, and other precision plastic parts. Common grades include POM-H, POM-C, Delrin 150, and Delrin 500.

Nylon (PA)

Nylon offers high strength, good impact resistance, low friction, and excellent wear resistance, making it suitable for CNC machining of gears, bushings, rollers, bearings, structural components, and other durable precision plastic parts. Common grades include PA6, PA66, PA12, and glass-filled nylon.

HDPE/UHMWPE

HDPE and UHMWPE offer excellent chemical resistance, low moisture absorption, low friction, and good impact and wear resistance, making them suitable for CNC machining of wear strips, guide rails, liners, bearings, rollers, and other durable industrial plastic parts. Common grades include HDPE, PE500, PE1000, and antistatic UHMWPE.

Polycarbonate (PC)

Polycarbonate offers excellent impact resistance, optical clarity, dimensional stability, and heat resistance, making it suitable for CNC machining of protective covers, transparent housings, lenses, inspection windows, and functional prototypes. Common grades include clear PC, black PC, flame-retardant PC, and glass-filled PC.

PMMA (Acrylic)

PMMA offers excellent optical clarity, good surface finish, and dimensional stability, making it suitable for CNC machining of transparent covers, display panels, lenses, light guides, inspection windows, and custom prototypes. Common grades include clear acrylic, cast acrylic, extruded acrylic, and impact-modified acrylic.

PTFE (Teflon™)

PTFE offers exceptional chemical resistance, high-temperature performance, low friction, and excellent electrical insulation, making it suitable for CNC machining of seals, gaskets, insulators, valve components, bushings, and chemical-processing parts. Common grades include virgin PTFE, glass-filled PTFE, carbon-filled PTFE, and bronze-filled PTFE.

PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride)

PVC offers good chemical resistance, electrical insulation, flame-retardant properties, and cost-effective machinability, making it suitable for CNC machining of fluid-handling components, electrical insulators, equipment housings, valve parts, and chemical-processing components. Common grades include rigid PVC (PVC-U), CPVC, clear PVC, and flame-retardant PVC.

PEEK (Polyether Ether Ketone)

PEEK is a high-performance engineering plastic with excellent heat resistance, mechanical strength, chemical resistance, and dimensional stability, making it suitable for CNC machining of precision components used in aerospace, medical, semiconductor, oil and gas, and other demanding industrial applications. Common grades include unfilled PEEK, glass-filled PEEK, carbon-filled PEEK, and bearing-grade PEEK.