CNC machining Stainless steel Materials
CNC machining produces parts with excellent mechanical properties, accuracy and repeatability from metal and plastic. 3-axis & 5-axis CNC milling available.
Stainless Steel 304
Stainless Steel 316
Description
Applications
CNC machining produces parts with excellent mechanical properties, accuracy and repeatability from metal and plastic. 3-axis & 5-axis CNC milling available.
Strengths
- Excellent mechanical properties
- High accuracy & repeatabillity
Weaknesses
- Greater geometry restrictions than 3D printing
Characteristics
Price
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Max part size
Faster parts through local sourcing
Get your parts CNC machined in 5 days.
Available materials
Custom Stainless steel parts
What makes steel stainless is chromium — at roughly 11% and above, it forms a self-repairing oxide film on the surface. Scratch the part and the film reforms, which is why stainless resists rust in a way a coated carbon steel never does once the coating is breached.
Stainless turns up wherever a part has to survive its environment rather than be protected from it: energy, medical, food and agricultural equipment, industrial automation and marine fittings.
Stainless steel machine shops
Stainless is harder on tooling than aluminium and slower to cut, so it goes to partners who run it regularly and have the feeds, speeds and rigidity to hold tolerance in it. That matching is done by an engineer when the drawing arrives.
Stainless steel CNC machining services
We machine the stainless grades buyers actually specify — the 300-series austenitics, the free-machining 303, the precipitation-hardening 17-4 and 15-5, and 2205 duplex where the environment is severe. Stainless is chosen for strength that survives corrosion, heat or sterilisation.