Cast Acrylic Perspex is locally manufactured by Perspex South Africa and is a consistent, high quality durable material. Perspex has a significantly longer lifespan and improved characteristics over cheaper rival materials and has been the material of choice within the global signage industry for over 60 years. Around the world, brand conscious companies and organisations invest in quality signs and advertising displays to portray their image. From international companies who want to maintain a consistent corporate image, to smaller specialist outlets, they all require signs and displays that are long lasting, attractive and cost effective.
- Exceptional light transmission with no inherent edge colour
- Excellent resistance to outdoor weathering
- High gloss, hard surface
- Good thermoformability
- Easy to clean
- UV Stability
- 17 x stronger than glass
- Safety - fire retardent thermal properties
- Low density
- Clears, Tints, Opals and wide colour range available
- Cold bending
- Fully recyclable
Router or Laser Cutting Sign Components
By taking full advantage of the colour range available, Perspex signs maybe built up by either routering or laser cutting design logos and letters from several colours, and inlaying these into sign fascias or panels of opal or coloured Perspex.
Screen printing and spray-painting
Excellent internally illuminated signs can be made by applying surface decoration to Perspex sheet by either screen-printing or spray painting. These techniques offer certain advantages:
- a wide variety of colours are readily available in small quantities
- the need for fret cutting and cementing is eliminated
- designs may be applied to the reverse surface of clear sheet to give greater protection from scratches
- lower item costs.
Self-adhesive vinyl films
Coloured designs and letters can be applied to Perspex to make signs using self-adhesive vinyl films. These products are usually translucent, light transmitting films. In recent years, the use of vinyl films has become extremely popular following the development of small, high speed plotting and cutting machines.
Cast Acrylic Sheet from Perspex South Africa can easily be formed and fabricated by simple workshop processes such as heat bending, sawing, drilling, polishing and routing. Perspex can also be fabricated by experienced vacuum forming, drape forming and press forming artisans into a wide variety of exciting signage applications. Perspex is supplied with a protective clear layer of cladding which ensures the surface remains scratch free for as long as possible.
Perspex is a combustible material but burning Perspex produces very little smoke, an important fire safety benefit. Burning Perspex, while melting, will not produce molten droplets and therefore will not promote the spread of fire. Extruded sheet has a rate of combustion similar to Perspex cast sheet, but will melt and produce molten droplets which will continue to burn. Therefore Cast Acrylic Perspex is not only a legal requirement for high fire risk signage projects such as petrol stations but should also be an essential consideration for all signage projects.
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