VIVAK® Used in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Sheffield Plastics Inc., a Bayer MaterialScience Company, along with its distributor A & C Plastics, Inc., donated Sheffield VIVAK® Thermoplastic Sheet to the ABC network television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

The show features a team of designers that work together to remodel the homes of deserving families. The sheet material was used for the remodel of two children’s bedrooms.

VIVAK was used in one bedroom as the material for large thermoformed “bubbles” that were fixed to the walls and ceiling. Another bubble was used as a hanging chair. In the second bedroom, VIVAK was used for large thermoformed candy canes and a “chocolate bar” table. This theme was inspired by the Candy Land® board game.

“VIVAK Sheet is a really incredible material, not only because of its durability, but because it is very easy to form and fabricate,” said Carolyn Faulk, president of A & C Plastics in Houston, Texas. “I knew from watching the show that they were probably going to do something really creative, so we wanted to donate a very versatile material.” VIVAK Sheet is a high-performance thermoplastic sheet with exceptional formability and outstanding impact strength. The sheet forms uniformly at lower temperatures, for greater detail and deeper draws, complex die-cuts and precise molded-in details without the webbing and sag usually associated with acrylic. VIVAK can also be easily decorated by painting, silk screening or hot stamping.

For more information, contact Cindy Kahlstrom, Sheffield Plastics Inc., 119 Salisbury Road, Sheffield, MA 01257, 800-254-1707, Fax: 800-457-3553, E-mail: cindy.kahlstrom@bayerbms.com, Web: www.sheffieldplastics. com. Or contact A & C Plastics, Inc. at 800-231-4175, Fax: 800-627-5899, Web: www.acplacticsinc.com.