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A list of some manufacturing methods for a variety of materials:

Metals

Subtractive

• Drilling
• Reaming
• Boring
• Turning
• Milling
• Grinding
• Stamping (shearing)
• Etching
• Threading

Hot forming

• Casting
  • Sand casting
  • Centrifugal casting
  • Lost wax casting
• Hot rolling
• Extruding
• Forging
• Spray deposition

Cold forming

• Cold rolling
• Coining
• Bending (stamping)
• Drawing
• Deep drawing
• Spinning

Plastics

Thermoplastics

• Injection molding
• Blow molding (bottles)
• Vacuum forming
• Extruding

Thermosetting plastics

• Molding
• Foaming
• Machining

Rubbers

• Molding (hot vulcanizing)
• Casting (room temperature vulcanizing)

Glass

• Blow molding (bottles)
• Pressing (ash trays)
• Floating (windows)

Woods

• Planing and shaping
• Sawing
• Turning
• Steam bending
• Routing

Ceramics

• Throwing
• Molding
• Firing
• Machining (for special ceramics)

References

• Kalpakjian, S. Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.

Links

• Metalworking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalworking