Stainless steel is resistant to rust and staining, making it perfect for kitchen appliances and medical equipment. Its strength and aesthetic appeal also make it a popular choice for architectural designs and automotive parts.

Steel is a strong and versatile material, widely used in construction and manufacturing. Its high tensile strength makes it suitable for structural components, while various Subtypes enhance its properties for specialized applications, like tools and machinery.

Brass has desirable properties for a number of applications, such as handles, automotive terminals and musical instruments.

It is low friction and has excellent electrical conductivity and its golden appearance make products looking excellent.

· H59

· H62

Copper (Cu-ETP) displays excellent thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and plasticity. It is also highly ductile, corrosion resistant and can be easily welded.

Titanium parts are frequently used in the aerospace, medical, surgical equipment, compressor blades, airframe and space capsule components, pressure vessels military and marine industries.

· Ti6AL-4V

· TC4

· TC5

· Ti-6Al-4V-ELI

Zinc alloys are promising biodegradable metals due to their desirable corrosion characteristics and good biocompatibility. Zinc alloys are used for a range of applications including cosmetic vehicle parts, complex part housings, and fuel system components. At Marigold, we normally use Zamak 3 for Zinc alloy. It exhibits similar machinability to copper but are less abrasive to tooling. Automotive part shells and small electric motor casings are typical applications for this type of zinc.

· Zamak 3

· Zamak 5

Beyond the listed metals, we offer a diverse range of other metals for CNC machining to meet specialized needs. These materials bring unique properties like high - temperature resistance, enhanced hardness, or lightweight advantages, expanding possibilities for your CNC mechanical projects.

POM offers high hardness, excellent wear resistance, and dimensional stability, ideal for mechanical transmission components (gears, lead screws).

Available Colors: 
Natural (pale yellow/milky opaque), white, black, red, blue, and green.

PMMA features high light transmittance, good weather resistance, and ease of forming complex shapes, perfect for optical parts and display props.

Available Colors: 
Transparent (high-light-transmittance classic), white, black, red, blue, yellow, orange, green, purple, and pink.

PC delivers high strength, impact resistance, and dimensional stability, used for optical/protective components and electronic enclosures.

Available Colors: 
Transparent (high-light-transmittance common), white, black, gray, red, blue, yellow, green, and orange.

PEEK boasts outstanding high-temperature resistance, chemical corrosion resistance, and mechanical properties, for aerospace/medical high-end fields.

Available Colors: 
Natural (brownish-tan), black (carbon-black modified), red and blue.

PP is lightweight, flexible, and chemically resistant, fitting food-contact, medical light-duty, and daily-goods applications.

Available Colors: 
Natural (semi-transparent), White, gray, blue, green, yellow, orange, red and purple.

PPSU has excellent high-temperature/hydrolysis resistance and mechanical strength, used in medical (baby bottles) and high-end electronics.

Available Colors: 
Transparent (amber semi-transparent, iconic), black (modified), light blue and light green.

Polishing is the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface, either through physical rubbing of the part or by chemical interference. 

Polishing process can be applied for different metals such as Aluminum, Brass, Stainless Steel, Steel.

Sand blasting results in parts with an identical surface with a matte texture. Used mainly for visual applications and can be followed by other surface treatments such as anodizing.

Sandblasting can be applied for various of materials of rapid prototypes, like ABS, Aluminum, Brass, Stainless Steel, Steel etc.

Painting is one of the most widely used surface treatment in industrial products or our daily life. With painting we can achieve different kinds of finishes, such as matt painting, glossy painting, textured painting, soft touch painting, and in theory any color is possible upon request.

At Marigold Rapid, we use both Pantone code and RAL code for color reference. And quite often customers also provide golden samples to us for our reference during production.

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Powder coating is a type of coating that is applied as a free-flowing, dry powder. Unlike conventional liquid paint which is delivered via an evaporating solvent, powder coating is typically applied electrostatically and then cured under heat or with ultraviolet light. 

At Marigold  Rapid, the most common colors we offer for powder coating is black and white, but we can basically offer any RAL or Pantone code colors upon request, and also glossy or matt finishes are available.

Electroplating is majorly applied to modify the surface features of an object (e.g corrosion protection, lubricity, abrasion). Some of the other common applications of electroplating involve:
· Improving wear resistance.
· Improving the thickness of the metal surface.
· Enhancing the electrical conductivity like plating a copper layer on an electrical component.
· Minimizing Friction
· Improving surface uniformity.