About Engineering Plastics
These engineering plastics are predominantly a range of materials that are produced to replace and improve performance over traditional materials such as brass, bronze or steel etc. This category of plastics are also mainly designed to perform in more mechanical or engineering applications as opposed to decorative applications where other plastics are more suitable.

Engineering Plastics Names:
There are many types of actual engineering plastics namely:

• Nylon
• Acetal (Delrin®)
• HDPE (High Density Polyethylene)
• Polypropylene
• PVC
• PTFE (Teflon®)
• PEEK
• Polyurethane
• Laminated Plastics (Tufnol®)
• UHMWPE

Most of the above engineering plastics will also often have trade names given to them by manufacturers or they can also sometimes overtime inherit a manufacturers name in place of the actual plastic material name.

Engineering Plastic Uses
Engineering Plastics are designed for components such as bearings, rollers, pulleys and gears in many industrial and domestic machinery. Engineering Plastics are used because they provide many years of service, are often more economical and will almost certainly be quieter in operation. Engineering Plastics are also easier to process by modern high speed machinery with the potential of recycling worn out components.