How Do Consumers Evaluate The Quality of Acrylic Displays

Last Updated on 7 months by soonxindisplay

Acrylic displays are more and more widely used and welcomed because of their beauty and practicality.

First, introduce the material used to make an acrylic display stand. Acrylic, also called PMMA or plexiglass, is derived from English acrylic (acrylic plastic), and its chemical name is polymethyl methacrylate. It is an essential plastic polymer material developed earlier. It has better transparency, chemical stability, and weather resistance is accessible to dye and process, and is beautiful. It has a wide range of applications in the construction industry. Plexiglass products can usually be divided into the cast, extruded, and molding compounds.

 A new type of energy material has become everyone’s darling. At first, it was because acrylic has good light transmittance and can compete with crystal. The high-quality weather resistance makes processed acrylic products. Furthermore, the acrylic sheet has processability. Dyeing, the surface can be painted, silkscreened, or vacuum coated into acrylic products with various shapes and patterns. Having said so many benefits of acrylic, how do you evaluate the quality of acrylic?

What Are the Good Features of The Acrylic Material?

First of all, the hardness is good: the main advantage of the acrylic panel is its high hardness, and its hardness is one of the indicators to measure the quality of the board. The hardness index of an excellent acrylic panel can reach about 89 degrees. The acrylic panel is exceptionally adaptable, can be used for a long time in the sun and rain, and has an excellent anti-aging performance.

Good transparency and strong light transmittance: The openness and fair transmittance of the acrylic sheet are excellent, reaching more than 92% because it can ensure the transparency and pure whiteness of the sheet during the production process.

Convenient maintenance and strong plasticity: The acrylic board is easy to clean. Generally, it can be wiped dry with a rag dipped in clean or soapy water, and the acrylic board has strong plasticity and is easy to process and shape. Strong impact resistance and rich colors: Acrylic panels have stronger impact resistance than other panels, ten times that of ordinary glass, and have very high safety performance and a wide variety of products—the decoration of the same space. Generally speaking, the main characteristics of acrylic are as follows.

1. The transparent board is crystal clear and transparent
2. High gloss, smooth and flat surface
3. Unparalleled outdoor weather resistance
4. Complete product series, with transparent, translucent, milky white colors and various surface effects
5. Waste materials can be completely recycled, and recycling is simple and easy
6. Good chemical resistance, better than most other plastic materials
7. Easy to clean, maintain, and ensure the appearance of signboards and lightboxes is always new
8. Excellent surface hardness and scratch resistance
9. The transparent board is crystal clear and transparent
10. High gloss, smooth and flat surface
11. Unparalleled outdoor weather resistance
12. The product series are complete, with transparent, translucent, milky white colors and various surface effects
13. Waste materials can be completely recycled, and recycling is simple and easy
14. Good chemical resistance, better than most other plastic materials
15. Easy to clean, maintain, and ensure the appearance of signs and lightboxes is always new
16. Acrylic displays Excellent surface hardness and scratch resistance.

For an ordinary consumer, acrylic, a professional chemical material, does not know how to distinguish it. Choosing a suitable acrylic display stand can be judged from the following points.

Material Appearance of Acrylic Displays

When viewing and purchasing acrylic display stands, you need to pay attention to the appearance of the material. If it is a transparent material, it has high transparency, high brightness, and no bubbles. If it is a non-transparent material, look at whether the color is uniform and whether there are pits on the surface of the glossy material.

Observe the light transmission 

The authenticity can be distinguished by observing the white light from the light passing through the acrylic plate. When the light passes through the acrylic plate, if the color is yellow or blue, it means that the quality of the acrylic displays is in question because the Acrylic sheet has a high light transmittance and does not absorb light color, so after the light passes through the acrylic sheet, it should be white light under normal circumstances.

Imported or high-quality acrylic display stands, whose materials usually have excellent light transmittance, are very white, and will not turn yellow or blue. Of course, the light should be white, and the light transmittance is also different. This directly affects the transmission performance of the luminous light source, the absolute brightness of the bright signboard, and the light transmittance of better quality plexiglass products is usually above 92%; that is, it looks close to the transparency of the glass if the panel looks turbid and hazy, Indicating that the quality of raw materials is not good enough. Acrylic sheets of poor quality are very brittle, fade quickly after exposure to the sun and wind, and lose their original luster.

Color

The uniformity of color is also one of the essential methods to determine the authenticity of acrylic materials. For acrylic displays with uniform color, the quality generally can withstand inspection.

When purchasing an acrylic cube, you should observe whether the surface of the acrylic display stand is scratched, air bubbles, oil stains, etc. If it is a colorless and transparent acrylic display stand, it depends on its transparency and whether the color is yellow. The clarity of acrylic display stands made of high-quality imported materials is very high.

 The color of the panel mouth, that is, the edge part of the board, if the raw material is high-quality plexiglass, the board mouth should be transparent and will not change color or yellow. Otherwise it will be a secondary process of waste.

Another relatively simple observation method is: to see if the actual conditions of the manual and the acrylic sheet are consistent with the manual of Biakli; if you find inconsistencies, you can roughly judge the irregularity of the acrylic sheet.

Material Feel

Judge the quality with a simple touch of acrylic displays.

The surface of the high-quality acrylic displays is round, smooth, and feels good. If it is made of glossy acrylic material, its surface must be rounded and smooth, without burrs, and feel good; if it is made of matte acrylic material, it must be that the surface of the acrylic material has uniform flat particles—no pitting on the surface. There are no air bubbles, and it will not quickly leave fingerprints or marks after touching it by hand.

Top glass acrylic displays are very smooth and comfortable to the touch. The edge of the display stand is handled very well during acrylic processing, there will be no roughness and burrs, and the sharp right angles are generally rounded so that they will not cut my hands. I am cautious in handling details.

It feels gelatinous to the hand. If you look carefully, there are no tiny pores on the surface. If lime is on the surface, there will be some tiny pores. Such materials contain more calcium and have poor toughness. SOONXIN is not recommended.

Hot Melt Method

The hot-melt method is also called the pasting method, and its principle is to distinguish the difference between the excellent acrylic sheet and the second acrylic sheet. Acrylic sheets of lower quality will be stuck together and difficult to separate after being hot melted, while acrylic sheets of good quality are easily separated.

Hardness

Hardness is one of the parameters that best reflects the production process and technology of cast acrylic sheets.

Acrylic sheets of poor quality are very brittle and fade quickly after exposure to the sun and wind, losing their original luster. This is because the hardness directly affects whether the sheet will shrink, bend, and deform and whether the surface will crack during processing. The cast acrylic sheet currently has the highest hardness index, with an average Da Rockwell hardness value of 90 degrees. Secondly, the hardness of the acrylic sheet can also reflect the purity of the raw material PMMA, the weather resistance of the sheet, and the high-temperature resistance.

The hardness of acrylic displays can be used to test the bearing capacity of the display stand. The test standard is straightforward. Use a little force to see if the acrylic panel is deformed. If there is a different degree of deformation, the product is unqualified. Within a specific range, apply pressure, acrylic. The product should be consistent and flat without deformation.

Measurement Tolerance

Many consumers don’t know that acrylic has thickness tolerances. Due to the limitation of the acrylic production process, there will be some errors. The only difference is the difference in intolerance. Regular acrylic processing manufacturers will choose imported plates with small thickness tolerances to display the stands. You can bring a tape measure to measure the thickness when purchasing acrylic displays and shelves.

The dimensional tolerance range directly determines the quality of acrylic products. Generally, thick plexiglass uses enough material and good quality. The thickness specification is usually set in 0.1mm units, and the deviation should be within 0.05mm. If it exceeds this value, it shows that quality control is not good enough.

Nowadays, many sheet metal manufacturers on the market prefer to supply finished sheet products with negative tolerances of materials. Undoubtedly, this kind of cutting corners has reduced the cost of raw materials in disguise and achieved the purpose of shoddy sales.

Product Design

In addition to distinguishing the quality of acrylic displays and racks from the raw materials and appearance, the functional design of the overall product is also one of the contents to determine the quality of an acrylic display rack. A good acrylic display stands, especially like Jewelry Display and Eyewear Display, can fully display the required content, leave a deep impression on consumers, and achieve brand promotion.

Useful

Good acrylic displays must have good stability and consistency. The acrylic display stand will not be deformed or slightly distorted after placing items during its use.

All in all, acrylic displays must be able to attract consumers’ attention when the product is displayed on the terminal, give people a bright feeling, achieve the purpose of product display, and at the same time, improve the brand’s popularity and reputation.