If anything ends up on the beds of hobbyist-grade laser cutters more often than birch plywood, it’s probably sheets of acrylic. There’s something strangely satisfying about watching a laser beam trace ...

Acrylic resins are economical, effective, and transparent materials. At room temperature, these plastics are ductile and are derived from products such as acrylic acid obtained from polypropylene, ...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, demand for acrylic sheet has risen sharply in the past few weeks. The sheets are one of the first lines of defense against the spread of the virus anywhere where ...

Laser cutting is currently one of the most widely used technologies for working with PMMA. The laser beam locally vaporizes ...

Although chemist and inventor Otto Rohm had first come up with the idea for plexiglass in 1901, it wasn’t until 1933 that the Rohm & Haas company first introduced it to the market under the trademark ...