Why acrylic products are more expensive than plastic products？

Why acrylic products are more expensive than plastic products？

Plexiglass Acrylic (Acrylic) Brief History As early as the 1920s, the new company invented the first MMA polymerization into an acrylic plate, which was later called "Oroglas / Plexiglas". Features of acrylic : weather and acid and alkali performance is good, not because of perennial sun and rain, and produce yellowing and hydrolysis of the phenomenon

1. Long life, compared with other materials products, life longer than three years.

   
   

   2. Good light transmission, up to 92% or more, the required light intensity is small, saving energy

   3. Strong impact resistance, sixteen times that of ordinary glass, suitable for installation in areas where special safety is required

   4. Insulation performance, suitable for all kinds of electrical equipment

   5. Light weight, lighter than ordinary glass, buildings and stents bear the load is small

   6. Colorful, high brightness, other materials can not be better than the United States

   7. Plasticity, modeling changes, easy processing and forming

   8. High recoverable rate, and is recognized by the growing environmental awareness

9. Easy to maintain, easy to clean, rain can be naturally clean, or scrub with soap and soft clot.

The Features of plastic

  1. When recycling waste plastics, the classification is very difficult and economically uneconomical.

  2. Plastic is easy to burn, produce toxic gases when burning. Such as polystyrene burning produce toluene, this material will lead to a small amount of blindness, inhalation with vomiting and other symptoms, PVC combustion will produce hydrogen chloride toxic gases, in addition to burning, is the high temperature environment, will lead to decomposition of toxic components of plastic, 

 3. Plastic is made of petroleum refining products, oil resources are limited.

 4. Plastic buried in the ground for hundreds of years, thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years will not rot.

 5. The heat resistance of plastic and other poor, easy to aging.

 6. As the plastic can not be natural degradation, it has become the first enemy of mankind, and has also led to the tragedy of many animal deaths. Such as the zoo monkeys, pelicans, dolphins and other animals, will be swallowed tourists readily lost on the 1st plastic bottles, and finally because of indigestion and pain to die; looked beautiful pure sea, approached to see, in fact, full of A variety of plastic garbage that can not be accommodated in the ocean, in a lot of dead seabirds in the intestines, found a variety of can not be digested plastic.

So,you know why acrylic products are more expensive than plastic products.

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