Acrylic

Acrylic sheets offer a superior alternative to glass and other clear materials, providing a unique combination of features and benefits that make them ideal for a wide range of applications. One of the most notable advantages of acrylic is its exceptional clarity. With a light transmittance rate of up to 92%, acrylic sheets are even more transparent than glass, ensuring crystal-clear visibility. This makes them perfect for applications requiring high optical clarity, such as display cases, windows, and signage.

In addition to their visual appeal, acrylic sheets are significantly lighter than glass, weighing approximately half as much. This reduced weight makes them easier to handle, transport, and install, reducing labor costs and the risk of breakage during the process. Furthermore, acrylic is up to 17 times more impact-resistant than glass, providing enhanced durability and safety in environments where breakage is a concern. This makes acrylic an excellent choice for protective barriers, safety enclosures, and other high-impact applications.

Acrylic sheets also offer superior weather resistance and UV stability, ensuring long-lasting performance in outdoor applications. Unlike glass, acrylic does not yellow or become brittle over time when exposed to sunlight. Additionally, acrylic can be easily fabricated and thermoformed into various shapes, allowing for greater design flexibility and customization to meet specific project requirements.

Overall, the combination of superior clarity, lightweight nature, impact resistance, weather durability, and fabrication versatility makes acrylic sheets a preferred choice over glass and other clear materials. Whether for architectural applications, retail displays, or safety equipment, acrylic provides a cost-effective, durable, and aesthetically pleasing solution.

- Exceptional Clarity: Acrylic has a light transmittance rate of up to 92%. Glass is limited to 80% light transmittance which makes looking through it inherently murkier.
- Lightweight: Weighs approximately half as much as glass, making it easier to handle, transport, and install.
- High Impact Resistance: Up to 17 times more impact-resistant than glass, enhancing durability and safety.
- Varied Fabrication: Can be cut, drilled, glued and thermoformed into various shapes and assemblies, allowing for greater design flexibility.
- Cost-Effective: Often more affordable than glass, with the added benefit of lower transportation costs due to its lighter weight.
- Safety: Does not shatter into sharp pieces when broken, reducing the risk of injury.
Transparent Acrylic:
- Clear Visibility: Allows light to pass through with minimal distortion, providing clear visibility.
- High Clarity: Ideal for applications where unobstructed views are necessary, such as windows, display cases, and protective barriers.
- Light Transmittance: Offers a light transmittance rate of up to 92%, making it highly transparent.
- Applications: Commonly used for windows and glazing, display cases, protective barriers, aquariums, picture frames, lighting fixtures, signage, furniture, optical devices, greenhouses, medical devices, model making and more.
Translucent Acrylic:
- Diffused Light: Allows light to pass through but diffuses it, creating a frosted or semi-clear appearance.
- Softened Views: Objects behind translucent acrylic are not clearly visible, providing privacy while still allowing light.
- Applications: Commonly used for privacy screens, light diffusers, and decorative panels.
Opaque Acrylic:
- No Light Passage: Does not allow light to pass through, completely blocking visibility.
- Applications: Used for signage, partitions, and any application where visibility through the material is not desired.
Mirror Acrylic:
- Reflective Surface: Features a reflective surface similar to a traditional glass mirror.
- Lightweight Alternative: Provides a lightweight and shatter-resistant alternative to glass mirrors.
- Applications: Commonly used for decorative mirrors, signage, and display applications where a mirrored finish is desired.
These high-end acrylic sheets offer many benefits including non-glare and UV-filtering properties. Exceptional general purpose glazing for valuable artwork, photographs, prints and cherished memorabilia.
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We specialize in the distribution of full sheets of high-quality acrylic, offering a wide range of options to suit various applications. In addition to supplying these materials, we provide expert design and fabrication services, including cutting, drilling, gluing, polishing and custom shaping, to bring your designs to life. Whether you're looking for clear, colored, or specialty acrylic, our team is equipped to meet your needs with precision and excellence. For more information on our capabilities and to explore the full range of our services, please check out our services pages.