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1. CUSTOM ACRYLIC & PLASTIC FABRICATION
**Plexiglass fabrication** is an interesting process. There are currently thousands of "products fabricated":http://www.akrylix.com/preview.php?photo=114 with plastics. Extrusion, molding, thermoforming, machining, vacuum forming, strip heat bending, milling, drilling, cutting, and polishing are the different ways that plexiglass can be fabricated. Polishing is accomplished by using a torch or a cloth buffer. Plexiglass can also be attached to other plexiglass pieces using solvent adhesives or mechanical fasteners. These methods of fabricating plexiglass are always evolving. Different techniques are used. The fabrication techniques and methods employed depend on the environment and application of the finished products. Customer specifications and quantities to be produced are also important variables. Our customers rely on our vast experience and expertise to fabricate their product at the best cost, quality, and look. Plexiglass fabricators are cropping up more around the world due to increasing demand for plastic products. Plexiglass can be fabricated in the following ways: 1. **Extrusion** In the extrusion process, melted plastic is pushed through a nozzle to make long lengths of special shapes like tubing. It is also used to create strands, and joining strips for wallboard. Thick plexiglass sheets are also often created this way. 2. **Blow Extrusion** Blow Extrusion is primarily used for making plastic films and bags. While the plastic is still hot, a tube is inflates the film with compressed air, much like a balloon. At the end of the rollers pinch together the end, which seals the air in and flattens the material. Garbage bags are made in this fashion. 3. "Injection Molding":http://www.akrylix.com/preview.php?photo=59 With injection molding, melted plastic is pumped into a mold. This process is best suited in the production of large quantities of identical parts. Many every day items from clothes hampers to screwdriver handles are made with injection molding. 4. **Blow Molding** A conservative amount of soft plastic is forced into the end of a mold with compressed air. The compressed air creates a bubble inside. The plastic is forced to the walls of the mold, filling up the mold. Most plastic pop bottles and infant?s toys are fabricated in this way. 5. **Rotational Molding** Water barrels and tanks are the most common product fabricated using rotational molding. A mold is partially filled with a powdered plastic. Then the mold is rotated over a big gas burner inside an oven-like device. As the plastic heats up, it sticks to the walls of the mold. 6. **Compression Molding** Compression molding is used for producing thermoset resin products. *Plexiglass* is not a thermoset plastic. The thermoset resin is placed into a mold under pressure and heated. The pressure and heat is what cures the plastic into the shape of the mold. 7. **Reaction Injection Molding** This process is based on chemical reaction. Compounds are mixed and sprayed into a mold. The chemical reaction that results will creates a plastic material. Car bumpers are made in this way. 8. **Vacuum Forming** Vacuum forming is a process that takes a sheet of plastic and places it in a frame above a heating element until it is soft. The sheet within the frame is then placed above a mold that has tiny holes in it, which suck the plastic sheet down around the mold. Products produced this way include the inside of refrigerators, bath and hand-basins, packaging for cosmetics, chocolates, biscuits, some yogurt containers and some disposable cups.

2. ACRYLIC DISPLAYS
"Acrylic displays":http://www.akrylix.com/gallery.php?cat=10 can take many forms: "Boxes":http://www.akrylix.com/gallery.php?cat=1, bins, shelves, pedestals, vitrines, drawers, covers, brackets, frames, components, accessories, podiums, partitions, lenses, diffusers, shades, dividers, "literature holders":http://www.akrylix.com/preview.php?photo=125, graphic retainers, models, prototypes, handles, "custom acrylic plastic fabrications":www.akrylix.com , hemispheres, oven formed, decorative, promotional, advertising objects, "acrylic signs":http://www.akrylix.com/preview.php?photo=24, trays, guards, dispensers, panels, windshields, tabletops, cabinets, doors, inserts. All of the above are widely used in "point of purchase displays":http://www.akrylix.com/preview.php?photo=76, trade shows, exhibits, promotional events, hotels, institutions, museums, and the food industry. "Acrylic displays":http://www.akrylix.com/preview.php?photo=29 are fabricated by cutting, drilling, bending, thermoforming, and banding acrylic sheets, rods, or tubing. They can be various forms and sizes. Machines used in *fabricating these displays* are table saw, radial arm saw, band saw, jig saw, jointer, router, drill press, shaper, computer, belt sander, strip heater, vertical mill, horizontal mill, engine lathe, disc sander, fixtures, buffer, hydrogen torch, syringe, solvent, clamps, spring clips, and wax. *Acrylic displays* can be used in almost any environment. They are practical, effective, durable, attractive and in increasing demand. Acrylic is a thermoplastic, which means that it can be heated and reheated in order to bend or mold it. Heating does not change the chemical composition. Other examples of thermoplastics are: acrylo-nitrile (nylon), polyethylene, polypropylene, poly vinyl acetate (PVA), poly vinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene and ABS, and Teflon. The properties of acrylic that make it attractive are that it is attractive, hard, slippery, soft, rubbery, tough, flexible, insulation from electricity, insulation from heat, light weight, hygienic, non-rusting, easy to shape, easy to color, inexpensive. Plastics can degenerate. Most plastics do not rust or corrode like metals. Plastics are made up of long strings like congealed spaghetti. Solvents seep in between the strings, weakening the structure and making it swell. The material usually softens, and all other properties are also affected. Very strong solvents may even break up and dissolve the strings. Other chemicals, and ultra violet light, cause the chain linking reactions of the plastic to continue and accelerate. The plastic becomes hard and brittle, and small cracks begin to appear at the surface. Once these cracks appear, they continue to grow throughout the material. The cracks usually begin in zones of local stress caused by heating, bending, gluing, or welding. Molded articles may also have internal stress caused by uneven flow of plastic in the molding process. Internal stress can be thought of as neighboring strings within the plastic being stretched by different amounts when the article is made. It is very important for the molds to be properly designed. Plastic sheets may be stored flat, with one sheet upon another on a flat, clean surface, or in a vertical position on edge. The best way to store plastic however, is at a slight angle. The sides should be inclined a few degrees from vertical. When stacking plastic sheets for storage, both sides of the sheets should be brushed, using a soft bristle brush, or soft cloth to remove particles of grit, which may cling to the protective masking paper that sheet stock ships with for protection. This "grit" is attracted by static electrical charge that builds up from the rubbing of the sheets against each other.


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