AKRYLON® HC
EXTRUDED ACRYLIC SHEETS WITH INCREASED ABRASION RESISTANCE.
- Good optical properties
- Less sensitive against scratches; high resistance to many chemicals and solvents
- Especially for flat indoor applications
- Description
- Features
- Colour variants
- FIVE-DOT-MISSION
- Delivery program
AKRYLON® HC are extruded acrylic sheets with a one- or both sides abrasion resistant coating in brilliant transparency, which makes them especially suitable for flat applications. Thanks to this special hard coating, the sheets are less sensitive against scratches and have a high resistance to many chemicals and solvents.
AKRYLON® HC is used for applications such as furniture construction (e.g. in the kitchen area), shop fitting and trade fair construction as well as for different kind of glazings – wherever an enhanced abrasion- and chemical resistance is required.
In terms of processing, AKRYLON® HC can be used mostly in the same way as AKRYLON® in its standard version. Due to the special surface coating, however, AKRYLON® HC is not suitable for hot bending and thermoforming as well as for external applications.
| Designation | Value |
|---|---|
| Brand | AKRYLON® |
| Serie | HC |
| Material | Acrylic sheets (PMMA) |
| Area of applications | Advertising structures/ hoardings; Architecture & construction; Boat and shipbuilding; Caravan construction; DIY; Equipment, appliances & machine construction; Interior design; Lighting industry; Medical technology & health care sector; Shopfitting, trade show stands, stage design, studio and office furnishings and fittings; Urban street furniture |
| Applications | Acoustic elements; Advertising display case; Advertising signage; Bar & counter elements; Brochure stands; Casing; Clear acrylic glass furniture; Counter screen; Decoration; Decorative walls & wall cladding; Design elements; Display cases; DIY supplies; Door signs; Equipment; Furniture & furniture fronts; Furniture fronts; Glass viewing panels; Hoods & covers; Illuminated advertising; Illuminated ceiling; Illuminated shelves; Illuminated walls; Infill panels for trade show stands; Interior lighting; Kitchen furniture; Kitchen splashbacks & infill panels; Laboratory & operation theatre lighting; Lamp covers; Lamp protection cover; Laser machine glazing; Lecterns & high desks; Lighting; Lighting & lighting elements; Lottery & donation box; Machine display panels; Machine parts; Name plates; Partitions; Picture glazing; Price signs; Privacy screen glazing; Product presentation; Refrigerated counter; Rummage tables; Safety glazing; Safety lights; Sales displays; Shelf stopper; Shelves; Shelves & shelving systems; Showcase; Shower cabin back walls; Shower cabins; Sliding doors; Sneeze guard; Splash guards; Stage lighting; Stage scenery; Stand-up display board; Structural components; Tablets; Trade show stand cladding; Transparent lottery drums; Wall and ceiling elements; Wall cladding; Washing machine displays |
| Specifications | Abrasion-resistant coating; Colour matching option available; High abrasion resistance; Low water absorption capacity; Medium-term exterior use (up to 3 years); Opaque; Service temperature up to 80°C; Special chemical resistance; Very good optical clarity & high transparency |
| Processing method | Contour milling; Cutting - CNC; Cutting - laser with good optical quality; Cutting - waterjet; Drilling; Engraving; Gluing; Lacquering, Painting, Spraying; Lamination; Printing - direct digital printing; Printing - screen printing; Printing - sublimation printing; Sawing, Cutting out; Screwing; Thread cutting |
Colour variants
Clear transparent
The colours visualised may vary from the original. To ensure exact colour matching please ask for a colour sample.
AKRYLON® FIVE-DOT-MISSION
AKRYLON® extruded acrylic glass sheets, offering brilliant clarity, have been assessed as part of our MISSION: TOGETHER. RESPONSIBLE. AKRYLON® currently achieves a FIVE-DOT classification with a total of 7 respectively AKRYLON®re a total of 10 points.
Recycled content
The current production of our AKRYLON® acrylic sheets already contains a proportion of recycled PMMA material. The majority of this material is waste from the manufacturing process which, after being sorted into individual types, can be fed back into the production process as regrind to produce new AKRYLON® sheets. We aim to continue increasing the proportion of recycled regrind in the product in the future. With AKRYLON®re, we offer a product comprising at least 95 % recycled material from PMMA sheet waste.
CO2 Footprint
Owing to the MMA used as a raw material in the manufacturing process, AKRYLON® contains fossil carbon. However, thanks to its lower density, AKRYLON® contains less fossil carbon per m2 than other transparent plastics. By using recycled PMMA in the production of AKRYLON®re, the amount of new materials required can be significantly reduced. This makes a valuable contribution to lowering CO2 emissions and avoiding waste.
Product life cycle
Our AKRYLON® acrylic glass sheets are made of extruded PMMA, a very robust, highly transparent and extremely durable material featuring excellent UV stability and resistance to weathering and ageing. We guarantee a service life of ten years for the AKRYLON® product family. The sheets are protected against the harmful effects of ultra violet rays and there are no significant changes with regard to optical or mechanical properties. When processed, used, and cared for in an appropriate manner, the life cycle of our sheets can be considerably longer than ten years. An extended service life also leads to saving resources as fewer replacements are required. Our AKRYLON® sheets are used in a wide variety of interior and exterior applications where priorities include durability, UV stability and, above all, transparency (92 % light transparency for colourless sheets). AKRYLON® is a product offering sustainable, long-term use and excellent product performance.
Recyclability
AKRYLON® sheets can be converted back into their original raw material, methyl methacrylate (MMA), using various recycling processes. Most modern recycling processes for extruded acrylic glass sheets use mechanical processes which, after sorting the material by type and grinding the PMMA sheets or waste material, feed the regrind back into manufacturing processes to produce new sheets. This is already being implemented in the production of our AKRYLON®re sheets. In addition to mechanical recycling, the PMMA waste material can also be converted into an MMA liquid monomer using chemical recycling (through depolymerisation). The MMA recovered can then be reused to create, among other things, new PMMA sheets which comply with the highest quality standards. Renowned chemical companies are currently undertaking intensive research into improved depolymerisation technologies to achieve a more efficient and sustainable means of recovering the precious raw material MMA. For AKRYLON® HC sheets, recycling by means of depolymerisation is recommended due to the abrasion-resistant coating on one or both sides.
For more detailed information on our product range (e.g. formats, additional colours/thicknesses, textures), please contact us. We are looking forward to helping you.
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