Aluminum

Aluminum is the go-to metal for rapid prototyping and lightweight production parts. Its outstanding strength-to-weight ratio, natural corrosion resistance, and superb machinability make it the top choice for aerospace brackets, consumer electronics enclosures, and automotive structural components. The 6061 series offers excellent weldability; 7075 delivers near-steel strength for flight-critical parts.

Brass

Brass is prized for its exceptional machinability — often cited as the benchmark against which all other metals are measured — combined with excellent electrical conductivity and natural antimicrobial properties. Its golden appearance makes it a favourite for decorative hardware, precision fittings, and electrical connectors that demand both function and aesthetics.

Copper

Pure copper delivers unmatched thermal and electrical conductivity — second only to silver — making it indispensable for heat sinks, bus bars, and high-frequency RF components. Although its ductility can challenge tooling, our optimised cutting parameters and sharp carbide tooling ensure burr-free, dimensionally accurate copper parts every time.

Steel

Steel spans a huge performance range — from cost-effective carbon steels to ultra-hard tool steels that withstand extreme impact and wear. It is the backbone of industrial machinery, mould tooling, and structural components where raw strength and toughness are non-negotiable. Post-machining heat treatment further elevates hardness to meet the most demanding specifications.

Stainless Steel

Stainless steel combines excellent corrosion and oxidation resistance with high tensile strength, making it the preferred material for medical instruments, food-grade equipment, and marine components. Grade 316L offers superior chloride resistance for implantable devices; 17-4 PH delivers precipitation-hardened strength for aerospace fasteners; duplex 2205 withstands aggressive chemical environments.

Bronze

Bronze has been the metal of precision bearings for centuries — and for good reason. Its self-lubricating properties, high load-bearing capacity, and resistance to both corrosion and metal fatigue make it ideal for bushings, bearing races, and worm gears that must operate reliably with minimal maintenance. Aluminium bronze adds even greater strength for heavy-duty marine and industrial environments.

Titanium

Titanium is the premium choice when weight savings and biocompatibility are equally critical. Its strength rivals steel at roughly 45% less weight, and its inertness in the human body has made Ti-6Al-4V the standard for orthopedic implants and dental prostheses. Despite its notorious difficulty to machine — low thermal conductivity causes tool-tip temperatures to spike — our optimised cutting strategies deliver burr-free, high-integrity parts.

Magnesium

Magnesium is the lightest structural metal available for CNC machining — roughly 35% lighter than aluminium — while still offering a respectable strength-to-weight ratio and excellent vibration-damping characteristics. These qualities make it indispensable for handheld electronics, optical instruments, and racing components where every gram matters. Proper fire-safety protocols during machining ensure safe, consistent production.

Zinc

Zinc alloys offer an excellent balance of dimensional precision, low melting point, and natural corrosion resistance. As a CNC material, ZAMAK grades machine cleanly with minimal tool wear, making them a cost-effective choice for complex hardware, die-cast prototype alternatives, and decorative components requiring fine surface detail.

Inconel

Inconel is the superalloy of choice for the world's most extreme thermal environments. Retaining structural integrity at temperatures exceeding 1,000 °C while resisting oxidation and chloride corrosion, it is the defining material for jet turbine blades, rocket nozzles, and deep-well drilling equipment. Its work-hardening behaviour demands specialised tooling strategies and controlled cutting parameters — expertise that defines elite machining shops.

Invar

Invar (Fe-Ni 36%) is the material that refuses to expand. With a coefficient of thermal expansion approximately 10× lower than steel, it is the foundation of instruments and structures that must hold absolute dimensional accuracy across temperature swings — from cryogenic optical bench mounts to satellite antenna assemblies and precision clock mechanisms.

ABS

ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) is the workhorse of plastic prototyping — offering a practical balance of impact toughness, rigidity, and easy machinability at an accessible price point. It is the default material for consumer electronics housings, automotive interior panels, and functional prototypes that need to look and feel like injection-moulded production parts.

PMMA (Acrylic)

PMMA delivers optical clarity rivalling glass at half the weight, with excellent UV stability that makes it a premier material for lenses, light pipes, display covers, and any application where light transmission matters. Machined and then diamond-tool polished, PMMA achieves glass-smooth surfaces with over 92% light transmittance — ideal for medical light guides and architectural display models.

PC

Polycarbonate is the engineering plastic that combines near-optical transparency with extraordinary impact resistance — nearly 250 times stronger than glass and more rigid than PMMA. Its broad operating temperature range (−40 °C to +130 °C) and dimensional stability make it the preferred choice for safety shields, electrical housings, and precision optical components subjected to mechanical stress.

POM / Delrin

POM is the precision plastic — its extraordinary dimensional stability, low coefficient of friction, and high stiffness make it the definitive material for gears, cams, rollers, and bearing cages that must perform reliably without lubrication. Delrin (DuPont's homopolymer grade) takes these properties further, offering higher fatigue endurance for cyclically loaded mechanical components.

PC GF30

PC GF30 is polycarbonate reinforced with 30% chopped glass fibre, delivering a dramatic uplift in stiffness, heat deflection temperature (up to 145 °C), and dimensional stability compared to standard PC. It is the go-to material for structural automotive housings, electrical enclosures, and industrial brackets that must maintain shape under load and thermal cycling.

PA (Nylon)

Nylon (Polyamide) is one of the most versatile engineering plastics — combining self-lubricating wear resistance, high mechanical strength, and excellent chemical resistance to oils, fuels, and most solvents. Its natural toughness and ease of machining make it a cost-effective substitute for metal in lightweight gears, bushings, cable guides, and structural brackets.

PC + ABS

PC+ABS is a synergistic blend that inherits the impact strength and heat resistance of polycarbonate while retaining the easy processability and lower cost of ABS. The result is a material widely adopted in automotive interior panels, consumer electronics cases, and medical device housings — where multiple demanding properties must coexist in a single part.

PA GF30

Glass-fibre reinforced nylon elevates PA's already strong mechanical profile to near-aluminium stiffness. PA GF30 offers a high strength-to-weight ratio, excellent dimensional stability under load, and a heat deflection temperature of around 200 °C — positioning it for demanding under-bonnet automotive components, industrial machine covers, and structural brackets that replace metal at a fraction of the weight.

PP GF30

PP GF30 combines polypropylene's inherent chemical inertness and low density with the dimensional rigidity brought by 30% glass fibre reinforcement. The result is a material that resists most acids, bases, and organic solvents while maintaining structural integrity across a wide temperature range — ideal for chemical process equipment, battery housings, and automotive fluid system components.

PP

Polypropylene is the all-around chemical-resistant plastic — lightweight, fatigue-resistant, and inert to virtually all common chemicals at room temperature. Its integral hinge capability (living hinges) and FDA-compliant grades make it a practical choice for medical sample containers, lab equipment, and any application requiring repeated flexing without fracture.

PTFE (Teflon)

PTFE's near-zero coefficient of friction, broad chemical inertness, and continuous service temperature up to 260 °C make it the definitive sealing material. Where no other polymer can survive — concentrated sulphuric acid, liquid nitrogen, or prolonged UV exposure — virgin PTFE performs. It is the material of choice for dynamic seals, laboratory vessel linings, and microwave-transparent housings.

PEI (Ultem)

PEI (Polyetherimide, commercially known as Ultem) is an amber-coloured high-performance engineering plastic that maintains its mechanical strength up to 170 °C while offering inherent flame retardancy (UL94 V-0) and outstanding electrical insulation. It is extensively used in aerospace interior components, surgical instrument handles, and burn-in test sockets — anywhere that high heat, sterilisability, and dimensional precision converge.

PS

General-purpose polystyrene offers excellent transparency, low cost, and easy machinability, making it suitable for display models, light diffusers, and low-stress enclosures. HIPS adds a rubber-toughening phase, dramatically improving impact resistance for packaging liners and interior product housings — at the cost of some optical clarity.

PPS

PPS (Polyphenylene Sulfide) is the semi-crystalline high-performance plastic that resists virtually all chemicals while maintaining structural rigidity at continuous service temperatures up to 220 °C. Its inherent flame retardancy, near-zero moisture absorption, and excellent dimensional stability make it the preferred material for chemical pump components, automotive fuel system parts, and high-frequency electronic substrates.

PE

Polyethylene offers a practical combination of chemical resistance, low friction, and toughness that makes it widely used in wear-strip liners, cutting boards, and food-contact conveyor components. UHMW-PE (Ultra-High Molecular Weight) elevates abrasion resistance to extraordinary levels — outlasting steel wear plates in sand-handling and bulk-material processing applications.

PPSU

PPSU is the sterilisation-capable engineering plastic — it withstands over 1,000 autoclave steam cycles at 134 °C without degrading or discolouring, while offering impact toughness far superior to standard sulphone plastics. This combination makes it the defining material for reusable surgical instruments, aerospace plumbing, and infant-care products requiring repeat sterilisation.

PET

Engineering-grade PET (Ertalyte) is a high-strength, dimensionally stable semi-crystalline plastic with low moisture absorption and excellent sliding friction properties. It bridges the gap between POM and PEEK for precision mechanical components — providing reliable performance in food-processing machinery, pumps, and precision bearings at a more accessible cost than high-end engineering plastics.

PEEK

PEEK (Polyetheretherketone) stands at the apex of engineering plastics — with mechanical properties approaching those of aluminium, a continuous service temperature of 250 °C, full biocompatibility, and resistance to virtually all chemicals. It is the material of choice for spinal implants, aeroplane interior structures, and semiconductor wafer-handling equipment where no compromise is acceptable.

LDPE

LDPE's defining characteristic is its flexibility — it bends and deforms without cracking, making it a practical choice for gaskets, protective liners, tubing, and any sealing application that requires the material to conform rather than resist. Its outstanding chemical resistance and low moisture absorption complement its physical flexibility in harsh industrial environments.

G-10 / FR4

G-10/FR4 is a glass-fibre-woven, epoxy-resin laminate that is the backbone of the electronics industry — providing excellent electrical insulation, high mechanical strength, and stable dielectric properties across a wide frequency range. Machined G-10 is used for custom PCB substrates, insulating spacers, and high-voltage electrical test fixtures where a standard sheet format is insufficient.

HDPE

HDPE combines excellent chemical resistance, low moisture absorption, and a high strength-to-density ratio into one of the most practical general-purpose engineering plastics available. Its FDA-compliant food-grade variants are widely used for cutting surfaces, liquid containers, and pipe fittings, while industrial grades serve as wear liners and structural components in chemical processing plants.

PVC

Rigid PVC (Type I) offers excellent chemical resistance to acids, bases, and salts at a very low cost, making it the standard material for chemical tanks, plumbing fittings, and laboratory equipment enclosures. CPVC extends PVC's temperature capability to 93 °C for hot-water systems. Its inherent flame retardancy (UL94 V-0) is an additional benefit for electrical conduit and wiring channel applications.

Wood

CNC-machined wood brings the warmth and natural aesthetic of timber to precision-engineered forms that hand-crafting alone cannot achieve. Hardwoods such as oak and beech support tight geometry for furniture joinery, architectural models, and luxury product prototypes, while MDF provides a stable, uniform substrate for painted decorative panels and exhibition displays.

Ceramics

Advanced technical ceramics occupy a unique position in materials science — offering hardness that rivals diamond, zero electrical conductivity, bio-inert stability for dental implants, and the ability to survive temperatures well above any metal's melting point. Zirconia is the material behind ultra-white dental crowns and precision watch bezels; alumina underpins semiconductor substrates and high-voltage insulators.