For additional information, contact Daniel A. Rustin,
Acrilex Inc. , 230 Culver Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07305,
800-222-4680, Fax: 201-333-1237, E-mail: drustin@
acrilex.com, Web: www.acrilex.com.
With over 40 years experience of producing high quality
thermoplastic extrusions, Applied Plastics has probably
produced tubing similar to yours. If they have not,
their sales and engineering team is always looking for a
new challenge. Some of their tubing capabilities include:
1/8” OD up to 8” OD; wall thickness from .020” to .750”;
lengths from .250” to 20’; clear to custom color match;
commodity and engineering materials. Production capabilities
include: applications; tubing; profile; solid rod;
just-in-time delivery and value-added operations.
For additional information, contact Joe Klein, Applied Plastics , 7320 S. 6th Street, Oak Creek, WI 53154, 414-
764-2900, Fax: 414-764-8606, E-mail: jhklein@applied-plasticsinc.
com, Web: www.appliedplasticsinc.com.
Looking for hard to find colors or sheet sizes? Calsak
Plastics stocks a wide variety of colors and sheet sizes in
ACRYCAST, their proprietary line of cell cast acrylic.
With six
distribution centers located throughout the US, they offer many colors and sheet dimensions not
readily available at other distributors.
Calsak stocks clear in up to 4” thick
(5” also available) and black in up to
3” thick in 48” x 96” sheets. FDA
compliant grades are also available.
They stock oversized sheets and offer
precision saw cutting at all locations.
ACRYCAST cell cast acrylic is easy to
fabricate and economical to use.
Calsak Plastics also stocks a wide range of acrylic rod
and tube as well as profiles, balls and other accessories
for all types of fabrication.
For additional information, contact Jonathan Hirakawa,
Calsak
Plastics , 200 West Artesia Blvd., Compton, CA
90220, 800-743-2595 / 310-637-2000, Fax: 310-637-3696, E-mail: plasticsla@calsak.com, Web Site: www.
calsakplastics.com.
Acrylic 100M, a lens quality monomer cast UVT rod, is
available in 3” to 9” diameter up to 4’ long, polished or
unpolished from C-Lec Plastics, Inc. Thermal setting
enhances its properties such as a high glass transition
temperature (approx. 230°F). The rods are stress-free
and will not require annealing during or after machining.
For additional information, contact Ed Walsh, C-Lec Plastics, Inc. , Inc., 6800 New State Road, Philadelphia, PA
19135, 215-708-7731, Fax: 215-708-7728, E-mail: rexolite
@aol.com, Web: www. rexolite.com.
CS Hyde Company manufactures cast acrylic rod and
tubing.Cast acrylic is highly regarded for its optical clarity
and outstanding light transmission properties.
It is unaffected
by sunlight or fluorescent lights, resists aging and
maintains stability under a
wide range of conditions.
Cast acrylic weighs half as
much as glass and has up
to seventeen times greater
impact-resistance. Cast
acrylic rod and tubing are
easily fabricated, shatter
resistant, odorless and tasteless. They are ideal for a wide
range of applications from industrial to medical and furniture
frames and knobs to sight gauges and signs/displays.
CS Hyde offers clear, polished cast acrylic rod in diameters
from 1/4” to 6” in average lengths from 5’ to 8’.
Unpolished rod is available upon request.
Cast acrylic tubing is offered in outside diameters from
1/4” to 12” in wall thicknesses from 1/8” to 3/8” and a
standard length of 60.0”.
For additional information, contact Sheridan O’Brien, CS Hyde Company , 1351 North Milwaukee, Lake Villa, IL 60046, 847-395-0325, Fax: 847-395-0535, Web: www.cshyde.com.
CYRO Industries is offering a
new P.O.P. ART acrylic sheet brochure
to designers, manufacturers
and fabricators of point-of-purchase
displays.
The booklet is an excellent
tool for designers to learn more
about CYRO’s product capabilities
and introduce them to new specialty
sheet products. The brochure features
information on new innovations such as ACRYLITE®
Radiant acrylic sheet, a color-changing sheet designed
specifically for the P.O.P. industry.
CYRO’s comprehensive brochure helps fabricators and
designers identify the best-suited material for their displays.
The booklet provides a brief description of CYRO’s
entire line of ACRYLITE sheet products, along with colors
and thicknesses.
For additional information, contact Gail Wood, CYRO Industries , 100 Enterprise Drive, Rockaway, NJ 07866,
800-631-5384, Fax: 973-442-6117, Web: www.cyro.com.
Ensinger, Inc., a global supplier of
engineering plastic shapes, offers a
comprehensive product line of Tecacryl™
extruded acrylic standard stock
shapes in crystal clear and colors.
Acrylics, known for their outstanding
weatherability, transparency, glossy finishes
and user-friendly fabrication
capabilities, are offered in standard stock shapes such as rod,
tube, standard profiles and unique geometric custom profiles.
Tecacryl acrylic rod is available from 1/8” to 2” diameter
and tubing from 1/4” OD through 12” OD. Standard
Tecacryl acrylic profiles range from triangle, rectangular
strips, step strip and an alphabet of profiles used in the
fabrication market such as “J”,”U”, “Z”, “L”, “W” and “T”.
Tecacryl acrylic is used extensively in point of purchase
displays, lighting, construction (handrails), architectural uses, sight gauges, transportation and bath-ware
applications.
For additional information, contact Robert S. Sowka,
Ensinger-Plastifab, , 8115 Lafrenaie, Montreal, PQ H1P
2B1 Canada, 514-325-9840, Fax: 514-325-5222,
E-mail: infoprod@plastifab.ca, Web: www.plastifab.ca.
Who in North America has 12” OD
tubing in acrylic or polycarbonate in
clear or lighting grade whites in stock?
If you needed only one 3” clear
extruded rod for a prototype, who in
North America would you call?
Who
has a complete inventory of transpar-ent,
fluorescent, opaque and metallic
colored acrylic in stock? Who has
strategically located distribution warehouses in Montreal,
Los Angeles, Chicago, Tampa, El Paso? Futurplast
Extrusions, that’s who. If you cannot find what you are
looking for from your present acrylic supplier, chances are
that Futurplast has it in stock.
Futurplast is a distributor committed one stop shopping
destination for clear and colored acrylic products, as well
as polycarbonate tubes. No one stocks more sizes and colors
than Futurplast.
For additional information, contact Joseph Sorella or
Lisa Houle, Futurplast
Extrusions, , 5695 boulevard des
Grandes Prairies, Unit 130, St Leonard, PQ H1R 1B3
Canada, 888-812-9075, Fax: 866-388-2955, E-mail:
info@futurplast.ca, Web: www.futurplast.ca.
Lucite International announced
the availability of Lucite® acrylic
sheet featuring Microban® antimicrobial
product protection which
inhibits the growth of bacteria that
cause odor and stains.
Lucite is the
only acrylic sheet to offer this benefit
to its customers. The product
is perfect for use where added protection
is needed, such as wall protectors
in children’s rooms, restaurant
sneeze guards and tablecloth covers, sink back
splashes to name a few.
Lucite acrylic sheet offers toughness and superb optical
characteristics. Now, with Microban infused
throughout the entire sheet of acrylic, the product provides
sustained antimicrobial protection for the entire
life of the product.
For additional information, contact Alan Ledger, Lucite International, Inc., 7275 Goodlett Farms Parkway, Cordova,
TN 38018, 800-4LUCITE (58-2483) / 901-381-2000,
E-mail: sales@lucitecp.com, Web: www.lucitecp.com.
Petro Extrusion Technologies,
Inc. (PET, Inc.) is a custom
and stock tubing and profile
extruder of engineering grade
thermoplastics.
They specialize in
a wide range of compounds
including GP Acrylics, as well as Impact-Modified Grades.
PET, Inc. currently stocks six profiles including Z-Bars (3
different styles), Channels and W-Bar, in GP & DR Grades,
all in 6’ lengths.
They also have custom acrylic profile extrusions capabilities
in crystal clear general purpose grades, or in custom colors
and offer a wide range of standard colors for custom items.
Petro extrudes acrylic tubing in sizes ranging from 1/8”
up to 8” on a custom basis. They also stock GP acrylic tub-ing
in 5”, 6”, 7” and 8” OD, all in GP clear, with 1/8” wall
thickness in 6’ lengths. They can also extrude these sizes
in translucent white on a custom basis.
Additionly, they offer a full range of sizes in either medium-impact
grade or DR-Acrylics, available on a custom basis.
For additional information, contact Robert Petrozziello,
Petro Extrusion Technologies,
Inc., P. O. Box 99,
Garwood, NJ 07027, 800-229-3338 / 908-789-3338,
Fax: 908-789-0434, E-mail: robert.petro@verizon.net,
Web: www.petroextrusions.com.
The light weight, fabrication versatility, increased strength
and break resistance are just a few of the advantages
Fabback® acrylic mirror from Plaskolite,
Inc. offers over glass mirror.
Mirrored acrylic is ten times
more break-resistant than glass
mirror of equal thickness, allowing
it be used in many applications
where glass is not acceptable.
Fabback acrylic mirror sheet is
produced in a thickness range of
.060” to .236”, in sheet sizes from
36” x 60” to 80” x 120”.
See-Thru and First surface,
PETG mirror and Polycarbonate mirror are also available.
A scratch-resistant coating is available for those more
demanding applications requiring abrasion, stain and solvent
resistance.
For additional information, contact Jonda Stover at
Plaskolite,
Inc. , P.O. Box 1497, Columbus, OH 43216,
800-848-9124, Fax: 614-297-7318, E-mail: plaskolite@
plaskolite.com, Web: www.plaskolite.com.
Plastiglas de Mexico S.A. de
C.V., is the largest manufacturer of cell
cast acrylic sheet in America under the
CHEMCAST® brand.
Plastiglas also
offers specialties in acrylic sheet such
as: bullet resistance, high impact,
marine grade, sanitary ware (SEN-SACRYL
ULTRA®), custom colors and
P-95. They provide a wide range of
sizes, colors and thicknesses.
For additional information, contact
Mauricio Medina or Brenda Arteaga,
Plastiglas de Mexico S.A. de
C.V.,
Frente Estación F.F.C.C., Maclovio
Herrera s/n, Ocoyoacac, Edo. México
C.P. 52740, 877-818-3716, E-mail:
brenda.arteaga@desc.com.mx, Web:
www.chemcast.com.mx.
For over 20 years, Reynolds Polymer
Technology, Inc. (RPT) has been
known globally as a leading manufacturer,
fabricator, designer and installer
of thermoplastics.
Their acrylic has
been used successfully in the architectural,
medical, PVHO, aquarium, transportation
and signage industries as
well as the commercial products and
retail design industries. R-Cast™ are
RPT’s high performance cast acrylic
shapes. R-Cast acrylic is known for its
outstanding optical
clarity, excellent
UV properties,
high impact resistance
and weatherability.
RPT produces
crystal clear
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quality standards. RPT offers one of the widest varieties of
acrylic sheet, rod and tube in the industry with standard sheet
sizes in clear and colors from .060” to 4” sheet thickness.
Custom sizes, shapes, colors and surface treatments are also
available in almost any configuration.
For additional information, contact Julie Hober, Reynolds Polymer
Technology, Inc., 607 Hollingsworth Street, Grand
Junction, CO 81505, 970-241-4700, E-mail: mjohnson
@reynoldspolymer.com, Web: www.reynoldspolymer.com.
Se-Kure Domes and Mirrors manufactures mirrored
acrylic sheet stock for distribution. The sheet is currently
stocked in clear, gold and bronze, with other colors
available on request. Sheet sizes are 49” x 98” and 62” x
98” in thicknesses of .06, .08, .98, .118, .177, .220 and
.236 inches. They also offer screen printing and laser cutting
to size.
For additional information, contact Art Fox,
Se-Kure Domes and Mirrors, 1139 Haines Blvd. Sturgis, MI 49091,
800-253-2064 / 269-651-9351, Fax: 269-651-1467, E-mail:
afox@se-kure.com, Web: www.domesandmirrors.com.
Spartech Plastics offers Tuf-Glas®
CR, a clear, impact-modified acrylic engineered
specifically for outdoor signage
and other outdoor display applications.
Tuf-Glas CR is manufactured using new
acrylic resin technology
based on very
high molecular
weight raw materials,
vastly improving
craze- and chemical-resistance
and enhancing hardness,
heat resistance and fabrication.
For years, extruded plastics were
considered inferior to cast products in
chemical resistance, appearance and
fabrication properties; but improvements
in extrusion technology, addition
of rubber modifiers and increases
in molecular weight are reducing the
differentiators.
Intended for thermoformed, backlit
sign faces, Tuf-Glas CR (in comparison
to other extruded acrylics) exhibits
superior craze-resistance to the inks
and solvents typically used in painting
and silk-screening and has been
selected for use in major sign programs
by both production and custom
sign companies.
For additional information, contact
John Hirsch,
Spartech Plastics, 120
South Central, Clayton, MO 63105,
800-558-7876 / 314-721-4242, Fax:
314-721-1543, E-mail: john.hirsch@
spartech.com, Web: www.spartech.com.
Excelon™ Acrylic from Thermoplastic
Processes Inc.
(TPI) has
been part of a wide range of applications
in the display, design and
decor market for over 50 years.
Clear, light weight Excelon Acrylic
enhances the beauty of any exhibit.
It can be heat-formed for a
variety of desired effects and is
easily imprinted or embossed.
Sunlight- and wear-resistance
make it an ideal choice for both indoor and outdoor use.
TPI stocks over 75 sizes of tubing, rods and profiles
crystal clear, colored extrusions may be custom ordered.
TPI acrylic extrusions are easily sawed, drilled, milled,
engraved and finished with sharp, carbide tipped wood-working
or metal-working tools. Cut surfaces are quickly
wet- or dry-sanded and polished.
TPI also offers clear Excelon™ Heavy Wall Acrylic tubing
which is dimensionally accurate and cost-efficient. The
standard length is 6’ but it is available in virtually any shippable
length.
For additional information, contact Ramsey Griffen,Thermoplastic
Processes Inc., 1268 Valley Road, Stirling,
NJ 07980, 888-554-6400 / 908-561-3000, Fax: 800-
874-3291 / 908-753-6749, E-mail: rgriffen@aol.com,
Web: www.excelon.com.
The Acriglas FR series has been tested
by an independent laboratory and
meets stringent UL94 V-0 standards
for flame retardant plastics.
These products can be manufactured
in solid colors and marble
effects and are offered in gloss,
matte or any of the seven other surface textures currently
offered in Acriglas. Presently, the light transmission of
these products would be described as somewhat translucent
to opaque, though more translucent and possibly
transparent products are still in development.