IRPEN S.A.U. has been dedicated to the production and sale of cast methacrylate for several decades, giving us extensive experience and capacity to meet market demands in an agile and efficient manner.

POLICRIL plates have among their main advantages:

-Good weather resistance.

-Great resistance to aging caused by the sun and UV.

-High impact resistance.

-Lightness (making them a good substitute for glass).

-Excellent light transmission capacity.

-Low water absorption.

Among all these capabilities of POLICRIL, in this article, we want to highlight its high transmission capacity and its capabilities against light diffusion, which make it an optimal material for creating surprising effects in different fields of application. If we understand light diffusion as the ability of a material to reflect/refract an incident light beam, causing light energy to open up and distribute in all directions from the point of incidence, we will see that by means of laser engravings or numerical control milling we will be able to direct the beam of light wherever we want. By playing with dots of varying size, with more or less deep milling and the distance to the illuminated side, we can achieve areas of more or less concentration of light.

From a design, with correct manipulation and taking advantage of its high transparency and its diffusion capacity, we can obtain results as surprising as those in these examples:

-Filtering Light Labels: Using a numerically controlled milling machine, we can create luminous signs, engraving methacrylate and illuminating it with LEDs of different colors, giving rise to effects.

-Color-changing Filtering Light Labels: With the same technique, you can achieve several colors on the same plate, such as on the parking sign, where we illuminate a “Parking” text in one color (blue) and in a different color (white) the other “Box” text.

-Art: Taking advantage of the light diffusion capacity that methacrylate allows us, there are artists who have dared to use it in their creations, obtaining such surprising and unique results.

-Other examples of decoration, illuminated walls: Working with methacrylate with different techniques, we can create effects like this on walls. In which we do not direct the light, but rather illuminate the plate homogeneously causing variations in intensity, which give a sense of relief to the engraving.