Resources
Guides from the shop floor, not the marketing department
The questions buyers ask us most often, written up properly: how thick the acrylic should be, which material suits the application, what a fabricator needs in a brief, and how to get a display to its destination in one piece.
Latest guides
Four guides to start with. Each one ends in the specification decisions you need to make, not in a sales pitch.
Design
How to Choose the Right Acrylic Thickness for a Display Stand
Why an unsupported 600 mm shelf sags at 8 mm while a 300 mm riser is fine at 5 mm. The span-versus-load rule, deflection limits, creep under sustained load, and the thicknesses we actually specify for countertop, shelf and floor-standing units.
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Materials
Acrylic vs PETG: Which Material Suits Your Display?
A straight comparison for buyers choosing between cast acrylic and PETG: clarity, impact behaviour, chemical resistance, edge finishing, bonding and cost. Including the cases where PETG is the wrong answer even though it is tougher.
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Buying
How to Write a Display Brief Your Fabricator Can Quote From
The twelve pieces of information that let a fabricator quote accurately first time — product dimensions and weight, quantity, environment, fixing method, brand colours, rollout schedule — and the omissions that force three rounds of questions and inflate the price.
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Logistics
Packing and Shipping Acrylic Displays Without Breakage
Where acrylic displays actually break in transit, why protective film and foam-lined cartons matter more than carton thickness, how flat-pack design cuts freight volume, and what to photograph before you unpack a damaged consignment.
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How these guides are written
Written by the people who run the machines
Every guide is reviewed by an engineer who has cut, formed or polished the material in question. Where we have made the mistake ourselves, we say so — a failure mode we have seen on our own shop floor is more useful to you than a specification sheet.
Numbers, not adjectives
Thicknesses in millimetres, tolerances in millimetres, spans in millimetres, lead times in working days. "High quality" and "premium finish" tell a buyer nothing they can specify from.
We will say when acrylic is wrong
Acrylic is the wrong material for aggressive solvents, prolonged UV exposure and deliberate abuse. Those answers appear in the guides too, because a buyer who finds out after the tooling is paid for does not come back.
Looking for something more specific than a guide? The product pages carry the engineering notes for each display family, the capabilities page covers what our machines and operators can hold, and the FAQ answers the commercial questions about quantities, lead times and payment.
Have a drawing that needs a second opinion?
Send it across, even if it is unfinished. An engineer will tell you what will manufacture cleanly, what will not, and what it costs to make — before you commit to tooling.
- 1Send drawings, files or a photo
- 2Engineer reviews and quotes
- 3Sample, approve, produce