Big City Lights

Night after night, and for several decades, Times Square in New York has been ablaze with advertising signs. In the Roaring 20s, only a few isolated incandescent bulbs and the earliest neon tubes drew the attention of passers-by to Broadway shows. Today, thousands of tourists and taxis weave their way through the ever changing play of color from giant advertising displays. Colorful, flashing signage made from the design material PLEXIGLAS® shapes the image of the modern city.

A material for the creative

Signage is everywhere, and not only on the facades of shops and houses; in large stores and tradeshow booths, for example, illuminated transparent elements are crucial to sophisticated design, because illumination gets the message across more powerfully. Evonik's PLEXIGLAS® also appeals to architects, designers, and artists because it is transformable. It is available in an extremely wide range of colors, with matt, high-gloss, or structured surfaces, and in the form of slabs, rods, tubes, and blocks. It's no wonder that PLEXIGLAS® spurs creative people to ever greater heights.

Molding (almost) without limits

PLEXIGLAS® can be individually designed, and is worked and molded by heat into any desired form. It is, moreover, extremely robust and weather resistant. This combination of properties has always been valued, and has resulted in objects of unequalled transparency and attractiveness. Today, PLEXIGLAS® continues to catch the eye at sales points through, for example, decorative shelving, sophisticated displays and stands, or light effects that set the appropriate mood.

Efficient lighting

Given the climate protection debate and rising energy prices, it is more essential than ever to design luminous objects with the greatest possible energy efficiency. That’s why more and more LED objects are being built with PLEXIGLAS truLED®, a material specially developed for advanced LED technology and precisely adjusted to the color points of the LEDs. This means that the light is not converted into heat, but reaches the viewer instead. This is a unique feature, distinguishing the material from all standard products currently available on the market. The use of PLEXIGLAS truLED® reduces the number of LEDs, and hence the power consumption, required to achieve a given luminosity. This reduces operating costs and protects the environment.