Acrylic (loanword)

Acrylic, also known as PMMA or Plexiglas, from the English acrylic (acrylic plastic), the chemical name is polymethyl methacrylate.

It is an important plastic polymer material developed earlier, with good transparency, chemical stability and weather resistance, easy to color, easy to process, beautiful appearance, has a wide range of applications in the construction industry. Plexiglass products can usually be divided into cast sheet, extruded sheet and molded plastic.

Uses

Acrylic products are acrylic panels, acrylic plastic pellets, acrylic light boxes, signboards, acrylic bathtubs, acrylic artificial marble, acrylic resin, acrylic (latex) paint, acrylic adhesive and other products, a wide variety.

People commonly seen acrylic products are made of acrylic granules, sheets or resins and other raw materials through a variety of different processing methods, and with a variety of different materials and functions of the spare parts to be assembled from the acrylic products. As for the general often heard of acrylic fiber, acrylic cotton, acrylic yarn, acrylic nylon, etc., refers to the acrylic polymerization of man-made fibers, and acrylic products are not related.

Among them, people often say acrylic sheet is Polymeric Methyl Methacrylate (PMMA) sheet, it is by "methyl methacrylate monomer Methyl Methacrylate (MMA)" polymerization. It is made by polymerizing "Methyl Methacrylate Monomer (MMA)" or by extruding acrylic pellets through an extruder. Previously known as Plexiglas. Acrylic is derived from the English acrylic, meaning PMMA sheet made from the organic compound MMA, which is as transparent and translucent as glass. Derived from all transparent plastics such as PS, PC, etc. or made of poor quality recycled MMA sheet are collectively referred to as plexiglass. In order to differentiate, the PMMA sheet made of high quality pure MMA is named acrylic sheet, so as to differentiate it from the general Plexiglas sheet.