Improving lives everywhere, every day, with acrylics

Acrylic is quite literally everywhere! Used in our homes and in stores, inside and out, for art, architecture, in transport systems, lighting, for work and leisure – it touches people all over the world, every day.

Learn more about acrylics

Acrylic is available in cast or extruded sheet in a wide range of thicknesses, colours, finishes and special effects. Designers also work with acrylic in a polymer or liquid resin form. 
Its outstanding technical performance properties include:

• Exceptional light transmission: cast acrylic sheet transmits 92% of all visible light. No other product offers better light transmission!
• Lightweight; half the weight of an equivalent panel of glass panel
• Excellent resistance to outdoor weathering, in particular UV resistant
• High tensile strength, rigidity, and durability
• Good impact resistance
• Easy to thermoform, cut, drill, polish, groove, engrave and fabricate
• Easy to clean

 

Online learning platform 

We have created a dedicated online learning resource so that you can learn all about acrylics to help you in designing your product 

Go to Classroom

Mitsubishi Chemical Methacrylates 

Mitsubishi Chamical Methacrylates is world’s largest producer of methacrylates – the building block of all acrylics – an amazing product that improves quality of life all over the world.

From protective screens to signage, paints and coatings to fittings and furniture, baths to automotive parts and more, you benefit from Methacrylates every single day.

Go to website

Acrylic Recycling Project

Mitsubishi Chemical Methacrylates is working hard to achieve the world’s first circular acrylic, in line with its KAITEKI philosophy focusing on the sustainable wellbeing of people, society and planet Earth. As the world’s leading producer of MMA with a history of pioneering with acrylic, its game-changing project aims to make this amazing material fully recyclable, fully sustainable and fully circular.

FIND OUT MORE