BiColor Acrylic Transparent Sheet

BiColor Acrylic Transparent Sheet

Acrylic, also known as Plexiglass, Lucite, or Perspex, Acrylite, and Optix 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 10x times stronger than glass. Because of its resistance to high pressure and impact. As well as its incredible resistance to weather and temperature, acrylic is a great alternative to glass.

BiColor Acrylic ppearance allows freedom to designers, architects and interior decorators to create environments to live and enjoy offering sensations upon changing the tone of artificial and natural light when its edge or surface are lightened. BiColor is a monolithic acrylic of two layers that shows a translucent color and another in clear; this gives to this product a unique aspect. This product allows light diffusion in a spectrum of color. Since it is monolithic it avoids the internal defects normally obtained in cemented substrates and can be thermoformed with no delaminating of the color keeping its optical symmetry in the final piece. BiColor is available in range of exciting colors and it allows designers and interior decorators to develop projects where light and color have a leading role.

Applications Include:

• BiColor SHEET IS RECOMMENDED FOR INDOOR USE ONLY.
• Illumination and interior design with cold light, warm light and Led’s.
• Internal partitions.
• Table covers in restaurants, Fast-food and bars.
• Counters at and hospitals and hotel’s receptions.
• Furniture details as inserts in wood, solid surface and quartz.
• Garden tables and displays islands (POP).
• Decorative articles.

Maintenance:

Acrylic is simple to clean and polish using a clean cloth and cleaning compounds. It is possible to remove light scratches from acrylic with special abrasive compounds. Here at Plastic-Craft we sell a number of cleaners and polishers such as the Novus polishing kit, that can keep your acrylic looking like new for years to come.

Light Transmission:

Light transmission is the technical term for transparency to light. Clear Acrylic has a 92 percent light transmittance rate — one of the highest light transmission rates possible. Most acrylic plastics will allow light of wavelength greater than 375 nm to pass through the material, but they will not allow UV-C wavelengths (100–290 nm) to pass through. Even very thin acrylic sheets of less than 5 millimeters (mm) do not let UV-C light penetrate.