I'll never forget the call I got from Mike, a fabricator in Phoenix, about six months ago. He was practically yelling into the phone: "These acrylic sheets are garbage! Half of them cracked when we tried to bend them, and the other half look like someone breathed on them wrong. The supplier said the

Three weeks ago, I got a call from a frustrated project manager in Seattle. "We're halfway through installing these acrylic panels, and I just noticed the sheets from the latest batch don't match the first ones. The color is off, and some have these weird ripples that show up under certain lights. M

Last week, a display manufacturer called me with an urgent question: "We need curved acrylic panels for a high-end retail installation, but our fabricator says it's impossible without cracking. Is there a way to bend acrylic sheets without destroying them?" This conversation happens more often than

Last month, I was consulting with a restaurant equipment manufacturer who'd just received a citation from the health department. Their beautiful acrylic food display cases were flagged because they couldn't prove the materials were food-safe. "We thought all acrylic was the same," the owner told me,

What Industries Use PVC Foam Boards Most and Why?Two weeks ago, I was visiting a client's manufacturing facility when their production manager, Mike, showed me something that caught me off guard. "See that medical equipment housing over there?" he pointed to a sleek white panel. "That's the same PVC