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Acrylic: Applications: Cast Acrylic Sheet Is Used in Aircraft, Boat, Mass Transit

Acrylic sheet is used in aircraft, boats, transportation, architecture, and protective glazing. It is also used in outdoor signs, lighting diffusers, and skylights. Special UV-absorbing grades preserve documents in museums and are used in photography. Acrylic film is used as a protective laminate on plastic sheets for parts that require weather resistance like motorcycle shrouds and RV panels. Acrylic moldings are used for lighting fixtures, camera lenses, appliances, and automotive components. Modified molding compounds increase toughness for durable transparent parts in vehicles, housewares, medical instruments and toys. Specialty acrylic sheet is deeply formed and backed with fiberglass for items like shower units.

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Acrylic: Applications: Cast Acrylic Sheet Is Used in Aircraft, Boat, Mass Transit

Acrylic sheet is used in aircraft, boats, transportation, architecture, and protective glazing. It is also used in outdoor signs, lighting diffusers, and skylights. Special UV-absorbing grades preserve documents in museums and are used in photography. Acrylic film is used as a protective laminate on plastic sheets for parts that require weather resistance like motorcycle shrouds and RV panels. Acrylic moldings are used for lighting fixtures, camera lenses, appliances, and automotive components. Modified molding compounds increase toughness for durable transparent parts in vehicles, housewares, medical instruments and toys. Specialty acrylic sheet is deeply formed and backed with fiberglass for items like shower units.

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Acrylic Applications: Cast acrylic sheet is used in aircraft, boat, mass transit,

architectural, and protective glazing; internally illuminated outdoor signs, lighting diffusers, and skylights; and product prototypes and demonstration models. Special ultraviolet-absorbing grades are used for document preservation in museums and for various photographic applications. Acrylic film is used as a laminated protective surface on ABS, PVC, or other plastic sheet that is thermoformed into parts requiring resistance to outdoor weathering. Examples include motorcycle shrouds, recreational-vehicle panels, residential siding, and transformer housings. Acrylic moldings are used for light-control lenses in lighting fixtures, camera lenses, vending-machine parts, and appliance panels, knobs, and housings. Automotive applications include lenses for taillights and parking lights, instrument panels, nameplates, medallions, and dials. A modified molding compound contains an impact modifier to increase toughness. Parts molded from these durable transparent materials include automotive dials, housewares, piano keys, medical instruments, and toys. Specially formulated acrylic sheet is available for deeply formed components such as tub-shower units, which are subsequently backed with glass-fiberreinforced polyester. Chemical resistance of this sheet is superior to that of conventional sheet. Sheet extruded from the high-impact molding grade is used for signs, thermoformed products, toys, and glass-fiber-polyester-backed components such as camper tops, furniture, and recreational-vehicle bodies. ********************************

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