What Is The Difference Between Plexiglass And Acrylic Sheets?
Author：Lois Liu – Export Manager
Everyone usually thinks that “Plexiglass Sheet” is the same as “Acrylic Sheet”， the little difference is that Acrylic and Plexiglass have different names in different regions. This seems correct. But in fact, this statement is strictly inaccurate. They are not the same product.
PVC The following is a brief introduction to these two materials:
①It is commonly called “Acrylic Sheet”. The chemical material is Polymethyl methacrylate, abbreviated as PMMA, and the chemical name is polymethyl methacrylate. It is an early-developed thermoplastic polymer compound…
②Strictly speaking, Plexiglass is not the same as Acrylic. Generally, all thermoplastic materials composed of transparent plastics such as PS, PC, MS, etc., or sheets made of inferior recycled MMA can be collectively referred to as plexiglass.
Note that “transparent plastic sheets”, “organic sheets”, “transparent PVC sheets”, etc. are not plexiglass.
③In daily use, many people confuse PMMA Board and PS Boards with plexiglass. These two materials are very different in terms of chemical properties and logistics properties.
Therefore, in order to better distinguish them, professionals call PMMA sheets “Acrylic sheets” and call PS sheets “organic sheets”.
(Note that in normal practical use, many Chinese or Southeast Asian customers are accustomed to calling cast PMMA acrylic sheets “imported organic glass”, extruded PMMA acrylic sheets “joint venture organic glass“, and PS sheets domestic organic glass).
【Acrylic Sheet】
①The name acrylic comes from the famous European brands “Organic Glass” and “Plexiglass”. It is a general name for all acrylic and methacrylic chemicals, including monomers, sheets, granules, resins, and composite materials.
②Clear Acrylic sheets are a kind of high-quality advertising material that is polymerized through some special processing and treatment. Acrylic sheets are generally made of 100% pure MMA.
JUXIN PLASTIC is a company specializing in the production of 100% pure MMA. We are committed to providing customers with high-performance acrylic sheets!
【Commonality】
Through the above brief introduction, we can see that their commonality is that they are all new-age environmentally friendly advertising boards made of some polymer materials through thermoplastic polymerization. They are widely used in all aspects of our lives and are closely related to our daily work.
【Identification】
So how do we distinguish different plexiglass and real acrylic sheets?
In addition to accurate chemical composition testing, in normal use, we can also simply distinguish:
① Transparency: The transparency of acrylic sheets will be relatively high, up to 93% or more
② Processing performance: Acrylic sheets can be widely used in a variety of processing, especially thermoforming, blistering, hot bending, etc., while some plexiglass can only be CNC cut.
③ Surface hardness: Whether it is surface hardness or gloss, real acrylic sheets will be obvious.
④ Color diversity: Real acrylic sheets are rich in color, theoretically any color can be customized, and the colors are very bright.
⑤ Weather resistance: Acrylic sheets have excellent weather resistance. Even under high-temperature ultraviolet rays, they can still be used for 5-8 years without discoloration, but ordinary plexiglass will turn yellow in less than a year.
⑥ Chemical properties: The Acrylic sheet has good chemical corrosion resistance and is suitable for surface decoration such as spraying, silk screen printing, vacuum coating, and film pasting. After the above introduction, I believe everyone has a clear distinction between “acrylic sheet” and “plexiglass”.
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