Just like "oils aint oils", it's also true that "plastics aint plastic".

Abs comes in many different grades (mostly depending on thermal properties) and then the finess of pigment, UV stabilisers used, and filler and stiffening material.

Contact your local industry suppliers and get competitive quotes from all of them, then compare. (Try ICI, DUPONT, GE Plastics, or even do a web search for the material name.)

Indicative costs in $US you could get the following range of prices.

Reprocessed post consumer materials from around $1 per Kg plus freight content.

Basic material with high variation lot to lot, no stabilisers or additives around $4 per Kg.

Modest Engineering materials with some additive and flow modifiers and maybe some level of basic (non boutique) colour around $10 per Kg.

High heat, high additive, low volume specialty materials around $25 per Kg.

Special batch runs for colour matching and testing, around $100 per Kg unless you have long term purchase history with the supplier who will then usually absorb the cost into the overall business plan.

NOTE: Most plastic suppliers also write into sales price option for variation of contract for oil price variation and exchange rates for cross border supplies.

Can you please add your country details and such to your login details so that we can understand what country you are in? I'm in Australia, but we are the only place in the world that relates to $AUS, so that's why I put $US for the prices above as most people have ready reference to their local exchange rate to that currency base.

Thanks for your valuable information. Sanath from India. As we are dealing with US clients... so we talk in terms of USD.

GA.

What the OP has to consider is the ever changing price of the raw product. In 1974 I was all ready to go with an injection molded product and the price of plastic went up be 300%. You should have seen that splash when it was blown out of the water.

The OP should see that he gets a fixed price on the material needed. If he gets it, that is!

Just an Engineer is correct in stating that there are many different grades of ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) and therefore, the prices will changes according to these variations.

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Resin pricing - Commodity Thermoplastics

For January 19, 2009

Prices are in U.S. cents per pound for prime resin, unfilled, natural color, FOB supplier, unless otherwise indicated.

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