Acrylic (loanword)

Main Classification

Types of Plexiglass (Acrylic) Sheets

Acrylic products

Acrylic products (5 sheets)

There are many types of acrylic sheet specifications.

Ordinary plate: transparent plate, stained transparent plate, opal plate, color plate;

Special boards are: bathroom boards, cloud color boards, mirror boards, plywood boards, hollow boards, impact resistant boards, flame retardant boards, super wear-resistant boards, surface pattern boards, frosted boards, pearlescent boards, metal effect boards and so on.

Different properties, different colors and visual effects to meet the ever-changing requirements.

1. Acrylic sheet according to the production process of casting plate and extrusion plate, according to the transmittance can be divided into transparent plate, semi-transparent plate (including dyeing plate transparent plate), color plate (including black and white and color plate); according to the performance of impact-resistant plate, ultraviolet-resistant plate, ordinary plate and special plate, such as high-impact plate, flame-retardant plate, frosted plate, metal effect plate, high wear-resistant plate, light-guide plate, and so on.

A: Casting board: high molecular weight, excellent stiffness, strength and excellent chemical resistance. Thus, it is more suitable for processing large-size signage plaques and relatively takes a little longer in the softening process. This type of plate is characterized by small batch processing, unparalleled flexibility in terms of color system and surface texture effects, and a full range of product specifications, practical for a variety of special purposes.

B: Extruded sheets: Compared to cast sheets, extruded sheets have a lower molecular weight, slightly weaker mechanical properties and higher flexibility. However, this feature facilitates bending and thermoforming processes with a shorter softening time. When dealing with larger sized sheets, it facilitates a variety of rapid vacuum molding. At the same time, the thickness tolerance of extruded plates is smaller than that of cast plates. Because the extrusion plate is a large number of automated production, color and specifications are not easy to adjust, so the diversity of product specifications are somewhat limited.

2. Acrylic there is a called back to the recycled board is the use of recycled acrylic trimmings, after thermal degradation to get the regeneration of MMA (methyl methacrylate) monomer, and then by the chemical polymerization reaction comes after. After a rigorous process, you can get pure MMA monomer, and new synthetic monomer, there is no difference in quality. But the production of degraded monomer, the purity is not high, after the plate molding, its quality, performance is very poor.

Summarize: extrusion plate using granular raw materials, after high temperature dissolution of extrusion molding, and casting plate is with MMA monomer (liquid) direct casting molding, although the shape of the extrusion plate is more flat and smooth, but because of its raw materials in the granular molding in order to complete the polymerization. Processed into a plate when its structure, performance is weak, and is not suitable for outdoor signage products as a material, only suitable for crystal word or product bracket and other indoor products.

In addition, because most of the extruded boards do not have UV protection, their outdoor life is not the same as casting boards, the color will fade and easily brittle until rupture. Casting board is in the plate processing process to complete the structure of polymerization, between the addition of UV absorbers, with high strength and UV function, outdoor service life of up to 5 years or even 10 years, the use of color has been as bright as new.