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Now a day’s plastic places a vital role in the field of automotives, which needs a good impact property at a reasonable cost. ABS and PLA materials has been mixed in an appropriate proportion of 90:10, 80:20, 70:30 (wt%) and a suitable compatibilizer i.e. glycerol, is also incorporated in to that mixture at a percentage of 2%. Then prepared the blend by melt blending using twin-screw extruder. After blending compatibility was investigated by DSC. The ABS-PLA blended materials were tested to find the mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. The disadvantage of PLA is low impact strength and low heat deflection temperature. The main advantage of ABS is good impact strength and HDT. On blending this ABS with PLA material, good impact strength and also good thermal properties can be obtained for PLA. It can be mainly useful in the fields of automotive, electrical & electronic housings.