Material Nylon Plastic Color Natural White The exceptional bearing and wear properties of Nylon Rod make it one of the most widely used plastics in the world Nylon is frequently used as a replacement for bronze brass aluminum steel and other metals as well as other plastics wood and rubber Nylon is a flexible durable plastic with less strength and stiffness than both PLA and ABS Its malleability lends it much more toughness than the other two however with an impact resistance ten times that of ABS