Nylon Fabrication Experts
Benefits of Nylon
Nylon is valued for its exceptional mechanical strength, self-lubricating properties, and superior wear resistance, making it the premier choice for high-stress industrial and moving components.
Key Properties of Nylon
- Exceptional abrasion and wear resistance
- High impact strength and toughness
- Low coefficient of friction (self-lubricating)
- Excellent vibration and noise dampening
- High heat distortion temperature
- Superior resistance to fuels, oils and chemicals
- Outstanding tensile and flexural strength
- Lightweight alternative to bronze and steel
These attributes make Nylon an indispensable material choice for fabricated parts that require long-term durability, mechanical reliability and high performance in demanding environments.
Nylon Fabrication Services at Dipec
With decades of technical expertise and specialised engineering equipment, Dipec delivers high-performance Nylon parts machined to your exact specifications.
Precision CNC Machining
High-speed routing, milling, and turning to create dimensionally accurate Nylon components for heavy-duty industrial and mechanical engineering sectors.
Custom Component Machining
Unlike PETG, Nylon is primarily shaped through subtractive machining rather than forming, allowing us to produce complex gears, rollers, and bespoke structural parts with high repeatability.
Nylon Component Assembly
We utilise mechanical fastening and specialist industrial bonding techniques to create robust assemblies, housing units, and wear-resistant sub-assemblies.
Billet & Plate Preparation
Nylon stock is precisely cut, squared, and sized using advanced saws and CNC equipment, ensuring stabilised dimensions and clean edges ready for final engineering.
Industrial Edge Finishing
Nylon parts are deburred and finished to ensure smooth functional surfaces, reducing friction and ensuring safety during manual handling or machine integration.
Prototyping & Industrial Production
Common Applications of Nylon
Nylon’s exceptional wear resistance, high load-bearing capacity, and self-lubricating properties make it ideal for a wide range of mechanical and heavy-duty industrial applications, including:
- Precision gears, sprockets and drive wheels
- Hard-wearing bushings, bearings and washers
- Industrial rollers, pulleys and guides
- Conveyor system components and wear strips
- High-strength structural spacers and standoffs
- Slide plates and friction-reduction liners
- Heavy-duty tool handles and industrial housings
Nylon Grades & Thicknesses Available
Nylon is available in various engineering grades and stock shapes to suit specific mechanical and environmental performance requirements.
Common options include:
- Nylon 6 (Cast & Extruded)
- Nylon 6/6 (High Strength)
- Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) Filled (Self-Lubricating)
- Glass-Filled Nylon (Enhanced Rigidity)
- Oil-Filled & Heat-Stabilised Grades
Thicknesses for Nylon plate typically range from 2mm up to 100mm, with a wide variety of round bar (rod) diameters available for precision turned components.
Your Trusted Partner for Quality Nylon Fabrication
With decades of experience across the engineering and manufacturing sectors, Dipec offers:
✔ Advanced CNC machining, milling, and turning expertise
✔ Skilled in-house engineers with extensive Nylon fabrication experience
✔ High-precision tolerances and competitive industrial pricing
✔ Full technical support from material selection to final delivery
✔ Rigorous quality assurance on all mechanical components
✔ Proven results across heavy industry, automotive, and automation markets
We produce Nylon components that consistently meet the most demanding mechanical, structural, and performance requirements.
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Nylon FAQs
Nylon is an excellent lightweight alternative to metals like bronze, steel, and aluminium. It offers a high strength-to-weight ratio, is corrosion-resistant, and provides superior noise reduction and vibration dampening. Additionally, its self-lubricating properties often eliminate the need for external maintenance in moving assemblies.
Cast Nylon is generally stronger and denser, with lower internal stress, making it better for large, complex parts and heavy-duty applications. Extruded Nylon is more flexible and often more cost-effective for smaller, high-volume profiles like standard rods and sheets.
Yes, Nylon is hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs moisture from its environment (up to 7-8% by weight in some grades). This absorption can cause parts to swell or change dimensions slightly, so it is crucial to account for this during the design phase for high-precision components.
To ensure accuracy, we use pre-drying techniques before machining and select specific grades like Nylon 12, which has much lower moisture absorption rates than Nylon 6. We also apply precise machining tolerances that factor in potential environmental expansion.
Yes, specific FDA-compliant and USDA-approved grades of Nylon are available for food contact. These are commonly used in the food and beverage industry for components like conveyor star wheels, rollers, and bushings.
Nylon is typically superior for impact resistance and absorbing heavy shocks. However, Acetal is often preferred for gears requiring maximum dimensional stability and low moisture absorption in wet environments.
Nylon offers excellent resistance to oils, greases, fuels, and many solvents. However, it can be susceptible to attack by strong acids, alkalis, and certain alcohols, so we recommend a chemical compatibility review for your specific environment.
Standard Nylon can typically handle continuous operating temperatures between 80°C and 95°C. For higher-heat environments, heat-stabilised or glass-filled grades can extend this range significantly.
Adding glass fibres to Nylon significantly increases its rigidity, tensile strength, and heat resistance while reducing its thermal expansion rate. This makes it ideal for structural frames and housings that must remain stiff under load.
Nylon filled with Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) is a premium bearing grade. The “Moly” particles enhance the material’s self-lubrication and wear resistance, making it perfect for high-speed bushings and wear pads that cannot be manually greased.
Unlike metal-on-metal contact, Nylon components absorb impact and friction energy, significantly lowering decibel levels in conveyor systems and gear assemblies. This is a major benefit for improving workplace safety and comfort.
Absolutely. While it is more “gummy” than some plastics, professional CNC milling and turning can achieve very precise tolerances. Success depends on sharp tooling and expert heat management to prevent the material from deforming during the cut.
Standard “Natural” Nylon can degrade under prolonged UV exposure. However, Black Nylon (typically containing carbon black) offers much better UV stability and is recommended for outdoor industrial applications.
Nylon is the industry standard for heavy-duty rollers and pulleys because it won’t flat-spot under load as easily as softer plastics, yet it won’t damage the tracks or cables it runs on.
Yes, especially using Cast Nylon, which allows for the production of massive sheets and rods – up to several hundred millimetres thick – without the internal voids often found in thick extruded plastics.
Yes, Nylon is a non-conductive material with good dielectric strength, making it a safe choice for electrical insulators, standoff spacers, and connector housings in industrial machinery.
Its low coefficient of friction and high abrasion resistance mean that Nylon wear strips protect both the conveyor belt and the products being moved, extending the lifespan of the entire system.
To provide an accurate quote, we require your technical drawings (DXF, STEP, or PDF), the expected operating environment (temperature/chemicals), and the required quantity for the production run.