Material
Choosing the right material for your custom plastic injection molding project is an important decision. Before choosing a material, you have multiple items to consider: Part function, application, durability, flexibility and color. Plastic molding materials look and behave differently, so your material choice affects your part’s performance and characteristics.
Even the material’s shrink rate needs to be considered. If the plastic injection parts are molded out of one material for the initial production, changing material for future production runs may affect the part’s dimensions. That’s because a different material may have a different shrink rate.
HKYMold’s plastic material list contains a wide variety of materials to use for plastic injection molding. We also welcome your requests for specific resins. If you need a material that is not listed, please let us know and we’ll do our best to obtain your specific plastic resin material.
The table below specifies the injection molding material grade, characteristics, sample applications and other details for each material.
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Type: |
Material Name |
Abbreviation |
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Plastic |
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene |
ABS |
|
Plastic |
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene - Hightemp |
ABS - high temp |
|
Plastic |
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene + Polycarbonate |
ABS + PC |
|
Plastic |
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene + Polycarbonate + Glass Fill |
ABS + PC + GF |
|
Plastic |
Nylon 6-6 + 30% Glass Fill |
PA66 + 30% GF |
|
Plastic |
Nylon 6-6 + 50% Glass Fill |
PA66 + 50% GF |
|
Plastic |
Nylon 6-6 Polyamide |
PA66 |
|
Plastic |
Thermoplastic elastomers |
TPE |
|
Plastic |
Thermoplastic polyurethane |
TPU |
|
Plastic |
Polypropylene |
PP |
|
Plastic |
Polypropylene + 20% Talc |
PP + 20% Talc |
|
Plastic |
Polypropylene + 30% Glass Fill |
PP + 30% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polycaprolactam |
PA6 |
|
Plastic |
Polycaprolactam + 20% Glass Fill |
PA6 + 20% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polycaprolactam + 30% Glass Fill |
PA6 + 30% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polycaprolactam + 50% Glass Fill |
PA6 + 50% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polymethyl methacrylate |
PMMA |
|
Plastic |
Polyoxymethylene |
POM |
|
Plastic |
Polyoxymethylene + 10% PTFE |
POM + 10% PTFE |
|
Plastic |
Polyoxymethylene + 30% Glass Fill |
POM + 30% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polycarbonate - Glass Fill |
PC + GF |
|
Plastic |
Polycarbonate + 10% Glass Fill |
PC + 10% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polycarbonate + Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene + 20% Glass Fill + 10% Stainless Steel fiber |
PC + ABS + 20% GF + 10% SS Fiber |
|
Plastic |
Polystyrene |
PS |
|
Plastic |
Polyphenylene sulfide |
PPS |
|
Plastic |
Polyphenylene sulfide + 30 % Glass Fill |
PPS + 30% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polyphenylene sulfide + Glass Fill |
PPS + GF |
|
Plastic |
Polyamide 12 |
PA12 |
|
Plastic |
Polyethylene - High Density |
HDPE, PEHD |
|
Plastic |
Polybutylene terephthalate |
PBT |
|
Plastic |
Polybutylene terephthalate + 30% Glass Fill |
PBT+ 30% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polycarbonate |
PC |
|
Plastic |
Polyetherimide + 40% Glass Fill (Ultem 2410) |
PEI + 40% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polyetherimide + Ultem 1000 |
PEI + Ultem 1000 |
|
Plastic |
Polyether ether ketone |
PEEK |
|
Plastic |
Acrylonitrile styrene acrylate |
ASA |
|
Plastic |
Nylon 6-6 + 10% Glass Fill |
PA66 + 10% GF |
|
Plastic |
Nylon 6-6 + 20% Glass Fill |
PA66 + 20% GF |
|
Plastic |
Polyethylene |
PE |
|
Plastic |
Polyethylene - Low Density |
LDPE |
