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, ...

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 ...

Dear Froggy Jim: Acrylic bongs are mainstays for Boomer and Gen-X weed smokers. Aging heads love smoking out of those cheap tubes of plastic polymer, usually with the same water from last week. Old ...

Acrylics refer to a wide family of tough, high-clarity engineering resins. Acrylics can be used alone, combined together, or included with other monomers resulting in polymers with properties from ...

Acrylic, with its bulky fibers and wool-like texture, is considered a wool substitute and perfect for cooler temperatures. Made from a common chemical called acrylonitrile, acrylics are often blended ...

Specialty material solutions provider Trinseo is advancing the potential of sustainable plastics with the inauguration of its next-generation polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) depolymerization plant in ...

Developed by Rohm and Haas in the 1940s, water-based acrylic emulsion technology filled a need for easy-to-use household paints for a growing suburban population in the United States following World ...

Las Vegas — Two plastic building products won their award categories at the International Builders' Show (IBS), which drew a bustling crowd of 124,000 to the Las Vegas Convention Center along with its ...