Acrylic, also known as Plexiglass, is a versatile plastic material with a variety of purposes and benefits, available in a spectrum of colors and opacities. Acrylic plastic was first produced in 1928 and brought to the market by Rohm and Haas Company around 1933. It was initially used during World War II for products such as airplane windows, canopies, and turrets.
Acrylic is an extremely durable material that is a much stronger alernative than glass because of it's resitance to high pressure and impact, weather, and tempurature, thus making acrylic an exteremly long last material that won't shatter.
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Acrylic is simple to clean and polish using a clean cloth and cleaning compounds. It's possible to remove light scratches from acrylic with special abrasive compounds.
Shop all acrylic maintenanceLight transmission is the technical term for transparency to light. Acrylic has a 92 percent light transmittance rate — one of the highest light transmission rates possible.
ACRYLITE® LED rod is ideal for transmitting high-powered LED light. Its unique light-conducting properties distribute light evenly throughout the entire rod surface. As light enters from the end, embedded colorless diffuser particles scatter the light forward and exit the surface at low angles. This results in uniform bright illumination. ACRYLITE® LED light-guiding rods are the only product on the market today offering light transmission in a round rod form.
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Edgelit is a clear acrylic that when lit from the side, diffuses and allows a uniform illumination of its edges and laser engravings. Edgelit offers all the impact strength and weather resistance of cast acrylic.
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Acrylic Mirror is a lightweight, reflective thermoplastic sheet material used to enhance the look and safety of displays, POP, signage, and a variety of fabricated parts. Acrylic mirror is ideal for retail, food, advertising, and security applications.
Shop mirrored acrylic sheetsAcrylic mirrors are 17 times stronger than glass, meaning they can withstand and survive greater impacts, such as bangs, collisions or crashes well. Its strength makes acrylic mirror ideal for use where safety is a priority or where glass may crack or shatter.
Two way see-through mirror acrylic allows a percentage of incident light to pass through, while reflecting the remainder. This allows for one side to be see-through whilst the other appears as a mirror.
Clear Frost Acrylic Sheet. Our Frosted Acrylic sheet is a specialty sheet that is manufactured to resemble "frost" on typical clear acrylic sheet. Typically referred to as a "heavy matte" appearance, this acrylic sheet is a standard choice for design applications requiring privacy or design effects with lighting.
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Similar to frosted glass, frosted acrylic is not completely see-through but does allow a certain amount of translucency. This translucency can be likened to a 'blurred' effect of the acrylic.
Non-glare plexiglass (P-99) is designed to minimize glare and reflection as well as maximize the unhindered viewing of framed artwork and prints, making it an excellent solution for art galleries, museums, studios, and more.
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Non-Glare is designed to reduce or eliminate the glare of bright, reflective light nonglare glass a monitor with a nonglare screen.
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Acrylite® UV filtering (OP-3) is a continuously manufactured acrylic sheet which filters out 98 percent of damaging UV rays, protecting paper artwork, prints, and documents from fading, yellowing, and brittling.
Acrylic Tube is made of Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA), which is a broad range use thermoplastic. This is the material to choose if you need excellent optical clarity (signage), and would like to fabricate by adding glue, polish, or thermoforming.
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A .125" thickness of acrylic is 2 to 3 times more impact resistant than double strength window glass, 4 to 5 times more impact resistant than wire glass or other glasses. A .250" thickness of acrylic is 9 to 10 times more impact resistant than wire or other glasses.
Acrylic Rod is a plastic material that has great impact strength yet is light weight. Acrylic, aka plexiglass, can be used in a number of applications such as signage, displays, model making, aquarium tanks, arts & crafts, and much more. Acrylic (plexiglass) can be sawed, drilled, painted, and decorated
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Acrylic, also known as plexiglass, is a tough and transparent plastic product that serves as an ideal alternative to standard glass. Acrylic rod is ten times stronger than standard glass yet half the weight.
Acrylic, also known as plexiglass, is a tough and transparent plastic product that serves as an ideal alternative to standard glass. Acrylic rod is ten times stronger than standard glass yet half the weight.
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| Glossy/Matte | Glossy | Semi-Gloss | Semi-Gloss/Matte | Semi-Gloss | Acetal | ABS | Phenolic | Nylon |
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| Clear/Colors | Clear/Tints | Colors | Colors | Colors | Acetal | ABS | Phenlic | Nylon |