Injection moulding.

[goodsmeister]

A young lad at my works who is doing a project for tech needs to know what plastic material would be best suited for injection moulding a mobile phone cover and why, i don't have a clue so i wondered if there is anyone on here who could help him out?

[brachiopod]

Polystyrene?

It is a fairly low density polymer, impact resistant, easily injection-moulded, scratch resistant, resistant to solvents and detergents and can be easily coloured.

Some useful properties there, methinks.

[Octavius]

Ask the experts!  There is a list of the most common materials used here:

http://www.bpf.co.uk/bpfindustry/process_plastics_injection_moulding.cfm

The most likely would be polycarbonate as noted here:

http://www.dsm.com/en_US/html/dep/xantar.htm

[goodsmeister]

Thank you very much that is most helpful.