The story of Plexiglas begins in the early 1930s, during a period of intense innovation in synthetic materials. German chemist Otto Röhm was perfecting his own version of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA ...

Among the many aspects of life impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, acrylic glass may not be the first to come to mind. However, for the makers of this transparent sheet product, COVID-19 has been a ...

Thermoplastics are amazingly versatile materials. Apply some heat, add a little force, and within seconds you’ve got a part. It’s not always quite that simple, but as [maxelrad] discovered, sometimes ...

Acrylic polymers such as poly(methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As the world attempts to return to a kind of normal in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, plexiglass ...

History might have been made in Moraga this week if a sheet of Plexiglas hadn't popped out of a telephone booth. But it did, and with the Plexiglas went the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of St ...

Billy Standley spent 18 years arranging his funeral. The body of Bill Standley, secured to his 1967 Harley Davidson, rests inside a plexiglass box before being lowered into the ground at the cemetery ...

An extraordinary transparent car is set to fetch as much as $475,000 when it goes up for auction. The motor, dubbed the 'Ghost Car', is a Pontiac Deluxe Six which, bizarrely, has been covered in the ...

A 1939 Pontiac Plexiglas Deluxe Six "Ghost Car," and a rare 1932 Packard Twin Six Individual Custom Convertible Sedan, will up for auction July 30. Suzanne Ashe Suzanne Ashe has been covering ...