"There's a whole family of transparent plastics that have different properties," said . "One of the benefits of acrylic sheet. It doesn't change its appearance over time. There are other transparent plastics that have different properties--that don't have that feature--and over time they'll become yellow, and they'll even become brittle." Some framers, he said, may have had a bad experience with plastic sheet and don't know that acrylic sheet is a different product altogether.
also working to improve its product line. "In the past year, we have improved the manufacturing process on our UV filtering ACRYLITE OP-3 acrylic sheet to keep the edge color as close to crystal clear as possible," said Clay. Unlike glass, which has an outer coating of UV protection, acrylic UV filtering is added throughout the sheet and can make the edge appear yellow. "We've made that process change, and we're now introducing that product to a higher quality standard," said "You typically don't see the edge of the sheet in a framed piece, but if the edge has a little bit of a yellow cast, there might be a slight difference looking at it from the surface.
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