The story of Plexiglas begins in the early 1930s, during a period of intense innovation in synthetic materials. German chemist Otto Röhm was perfecting his own version of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA ...

Acrylic polymers such as poly(methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all ...

Thermoplastics are amazingly versatile materials. Apply some heat, add a little force, and within seconds you’ve got a part. It’s not always quite that simple, but as [maxelrad] discovered, sometimes ...

New from plastics supplier Arkema is a bio-based Plexiglas (acrylic) marketed for use in medical devices. This new material builds on the company's launch earlier this year of its Plexiglas CR series ...

Today, plastics recycling is primarily limited to the collection of sorted PET or polyethylene beverage bottles. The plastic collected is of identical chemical composition, with polymer molecules of ...

Röhm is the new name for the methacrylates business of Evonik Industries, which was just sold to the private equity firm Advent International for $3.4 billion. Röhm holds the Plexiglas polymethyl ...