If your business is in need of acrylic for a manufacturing or engineering project, talk to our team to find out which is best for you. Acrylic can also be coated to supplement characteristics such as scratch resistance, anti-fogging, glare reduction and solar reflectivity. Common brands of high-grade acrylic include Polycast, Lucite, Plexiglass and Perspex. For a great selection of brands to suit all projects and budgets, check out our acrylic range by clicking here.
Working with Acrylic Acrylic can be cut, drilled, machined, softened, and bent to make any shape. And, being half the weight of glass, handling acrylic is easy. Cleaning Acrylic Acrylic should only ever be cleaned with a soft cloth, mild soap or detergent, and lukewarm water.
Never use a scourer, chemical cleaners or solvents like acetone or benzene as they will damage acrylic. If your acrylic gets greasy or in contact with oil or tar, use hexane or kerosene to remove it.
Acrylic can be kept looking like new since accidental scratches can be buffed out. Click here to check out our guide to removing scratches from acrylic.
Uses of Acrylic Acrylic sheets are used in many different ways as a replacement for glass. For example, places you might see acrylic are in stores, shopping centres, aquariums, boat windows and point of sale displays.
Acrylic is also used in homes — here are some of the most popular uses:. Check out our complete buyers guide that answers the most asked questions when considering secondary glazing for your home.
The HSE recommends installing Protective Screens, which prevent the spread of viruses when social distancing is not possible. Click here to find out more today. Standard Delivery. Both in delicacy and vegetable areas. Looking closely, you will discover that all types of businesses using large quantities of acrylic - signs, showcases, shelves, guards and gates in all colors. A more impressive uses of acrylic is the big aquariums around the world.
The panoramic windows are made of glued acrylic blocks. Laser cutting. The use of Acrylic. Production of sheets and profiles. Cast versus extruded acrylic. Chemical resistance. Although it is not technically a type of glass, the substance has sometimes historically been called acrylic glass. Acrylic known for its flexibility and versatility; enables it to be used for many different projects.
It is also versatile, in that it can be painted, glued, screen printed, routed, drilled, or sawed. Skylights, aquariums, dentures, and bone cement are all made of plexiglas acrylic.
Since it was trademarked in , Plexiglas acrylic has become an increasingly popular material for a variety of projects. Although we will highlight some of the more amazing commercial projects below, it is none the less also popular for many DIY Do-It-Yourself projects including:. Perhaps the coolest plexiglas project is also the earliest. Rohm and Haas Company trademarked Plexiglas in Captured Lightning Acrylic Cube. These sculptures are made by injecting electrons into a specimen of acrylic, which is a wonderful insulator, clearer than glass, and durable.
Sculptors use a kW particle accelerator to inject the electrons. Once the electrons are injected, the acrylic traps them inside, and the sculptors poke at the acrylic with metal prongs, which force the specimen to discharge. This has the appearance of a tree-like pattern.
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