plastics · full record
The laser's favourite: flame-polished edges, eighty-plus colours, thermoformable; carbon-expensive when virgin, so use it where nothing else will do.
also called Plexiglass · Acrylic · Polymethyl methacrylate · PMMA
No embodied-carbon figure is shown. We do not yet hold one we are licensed to publish, and an unsourced number is worse than none.
116 variants on the catalogue · held as sheet · 2–5 mm
The laser cutter's favourite material: it cuts with a flame-polished edge, comes in eighty-odd colours from water-clear to soft pastels, and thermoforms with a strip heater into almost anything. The honest part: virgin acrylic is carbon-expensive: several times a sheet of plywood, kilo for kilo. That doesn't make it wrong; it makes it precious. Use it where nothing else will do, keep the offcuts, and reach for the recycled route (Green Cast) where you can.
Brands of this material the Lab holds or has worked with.
Editorial pairings: the comparisons worth making, on aligned scales where the figures allow one.
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