New Lucite® Line

Bigger is now better for fabricators who demand ultra-high-quality Lucite® acrylic sheet. “Our new 100” line provides super-smooth finishes and increased production efficiency, meaning higher customer satisfaction as a result of an aggressive new capital investment in North America,” said Alan Ledger, National Sales Manager for the Industrial Lucite Division. “Our customers, particularly those in the point-of-purchase (P.O.P.), framing, mirror and sign industries will immediately benefit from these enhanced features. This new line enables us to respond faster to customer needs, positions us to gain market share and should allow us to turn inventories faster than ever before.”

Lucite’s Olive Branch, Mississippi plant is now on line with new leading edge Breyer® extrusion technology that will deliver an additional 10 million pounds of capacity. The extrusion line, operating in an industry-leading clean-room environment, features the very latest technology in Breyer machining, utilizes a proprietary “Hot Melt” extrusion system and produces frame grade and mirror grade surface finishes in widths up to 100”.

The clean-room production environment is specifically tailored for production with no outside contamination, which helps produce an acrylic sheet of exceptional quality characteristics and visual clarity. Their closed-loop “Hot Melt” process also adds to improved color quality and clarity because it subjects the acrylic monomer to just one heating cycle.

The larger acrylic sheet produced on the new line is being shipped customer-direct from the production facility. The sheet is faced with either thermoformable or TufGuard™ protective masking and can be ordered in specific sizes to ensure a higher yield for job-specific project applications.

For more information, contact Alan Ledger, Lucite International, 7275 Goodlet Farms Parkway, Cordova, TN 38018, 800-458-2483, Fax: 800-458-2483 E-mail: alan.ledger@lucite.com, Web: www.lucitecp.com.