Nylon is a cost-effective engineering plastic that offers strength comparable to metals and excellent toughness, making it particularly suitable for processing medium-load structural components. It also possesses outstanding wear resistance and self-lubricating properties, making it ideal for applications requiring wear resistance or involving sliding contact.

priceRating
★★★★★
machinability
Good
wallThickness
≥ 1.0 mm
tolerance
±0.02 mm–±0.05 mm
Description
Gears, pulleys, guide rails, wear strips, daily-use and equipment structural components
Nylon supports various surface treatments such as spraying, laser marking, and screen printing.
Nylon has high water absorption and a limited maximum operating temperature for long-term use.
Select from our full range of materials for your application.
Nylon 6 (CNC) - PA 6 offers excellent strength, toughness, outstanding corrosion resistance, and self-lubricating properties, making it particularly suitable for machining parts subjected to impact or structural components involving sliding friction.
Nylon 6/6-PA66 offers superior strength, hardness, and outstanding heat resistance, and is ideal for motion or structural components in high-load and high-temperature environments.
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Nylon possesses mechanical properties comparable to metals, achieving an excellent balance between strength, rigidity, toughness, and wear resistance. Its favorable strength and toughness make it suitable for machining components subjected to moderate loads. Additionally, its low coefficient of friction and excellent self-lubricating properties render it an ideal material for manufacturing bearings, gears, and other moving parts. It exhibits moderate chemical resistance and serves as a good electrical insulator under dry conditions. During CNC machining, the material is easy to cut, resulting in high processing efficiency.
Xmake specializes not only in machining metal materials but also in processing various engineering plastics. Supported by advanced machine tools, we can efficiently machine various nylon materials to produce medium-load, wear-resistant, or sliding structural components. We provide full-process manufacturing support from prototype validation and small-batch trial production to mass production, ensuring consistency and reliability. Additionally, we offer multiple surface treatment processes tailored for engineering plastics, delivering both functional performance and meeting aesthetic and textural requirements.
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