The Ultimate Guide to the Best Plastic for CNC Machines

This is the ultimate guide to the best plastic for CNC machines! The plastics used in many CNC machines are hard, brittle and very difficult to work with. The following post will provide you with all of the essential information about plastics and what works best for some awesome designs

Let＊s start by looking at the advantages of using plastic over other materials. Plastic is lightweight, easy to cut, drill and carve. It can be molded into many shapes, making it perfect for creating parts that need to fit together like a puzzle. Plastics also have excellent electrical properties which means they are ideal when working with high voltage electricity. This makes them great for use in electronics applications such as computer cooling fans or computer cases

Plastics can be formed into any shape imaginable which makes them perfect for creating models of cars or planes – even rockets! They can also be made into complex structures such as tubes or containers using injection molding machines that are relatively easy to operate and understand.

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CNC Plastic Machining

CNC Machining Plastic Parts are widely used in all industries fields and most products around us in the world. And many plastic materials are suitable for machining processes.

Therefore, CNC machining plastic parts are important production way to make out plastic products.

Different plastics have different properties, with their low cost and multi-selecting reason, so CNC machining plastic parts are flexibly choose plastic materials for various functional products.

Different processing use different materials for its functional purpose. Normally we use ABS, PS, PC, Nylon, PEEK, PA, POM, etc. For plastic parts by CNC turning, milling, drilling; And apply finishing treatment on surface such as painting, powder coating, etc.

Benefits of CNC Plastic Machining

1/ Plastic materials have many series with different properties for different choice

2/ Plastic materials is soft, shape-keeping, and easy-cutting for CNC machining processes

3/ CNC machining plastic parts are light-weight for product using

4/ CNC machining plastic parts are non-conductive of electricity, supporting many non-conductive parts

5/ CNC machining plastic parts are flexible to change the shape, benefiting the prototyping time and cost

6/ Plastic parts material supporting recycle collecting, material renewal benefits the burden of world

Common Materials Code of CNC Machining plastic

Plastic Series	Workable Processes	Surface Finishing for plastic Parts	Materials Code
	CNC Turning, CNC Milling, CNC Drilling, Molding, Injection, etc.	Painting, Blasting, Grinding, Powder, ect.	ABS
			HDPE / LDPE
			Nylon
			POM
			PEEK
			PMMA
			PTFE
			Polycarbonate
			Polystyrene
			other more Plastics

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From year of 2005, Asianstar Company establish the CNC Machining Factory in Guangdong Province, China.
We mostly provide CNC Turning, Milling, Drilling, Grinding, and Multi Machining processes service on various materials.
With the Belief of becoming a key supplier in the supply-chain of Precision Components, we strictly control our product quality, keep high precision on our components production, buildup the whole-process QC System and submit the satisfaction for every order.
By long term development, we have buildup partnership with world-wide clients, supporting our partners in Designing, Optimizing, Producing and Testing on each type of components.

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