BGS Glass Service offers a full range of polycarbonates and other plastics materials. The name LEXAN has been synonymous with high-strength, durability, and clarity for many decades and it is available for purchase through BGS Glass.

Troublesome vandals? Lexan and Plexiglas are a high-quality way to cut down on broken windows. Because of its high-impact durability, Lexan is also ideal for bulletproofing retail outlets in high-crime areas.

BGS Glass can order and install polycarbonates, including bulletproof material, in any type of application. Call today to speak to an installer about the right polycarbonates to fit your needs.

Acrylic Plastics
Acrylic plastics, often referred to by familiar trade names like PlexiGlas and Acrylite, is strong, lightweight, and more resistant to impact than glass is. It’s highly weather and chemical-resistant, and it is available in a variety of sizes, shapes, and textures.

Typical Acrylic Plastics Applications

• Point-of-Purchase displays (POP)
• Window and architectural glazing
• Boat parts
• Signs and exhibits
• Lighting diffusers and skylights
• Sporting goods
• Picture framing

Acrylic Plastics – Sheet
Colors and Textures – Acrylic plastic sheets are available in clear, translucent, and fluorescent colors, opaque colors, and a variety of surface textures.

Acrylic Plastic Sheet Sizes - Standard sheets sizes range from 48×96″ to 72×120″, with thicknesses ranging from .030 inches to four inches. Custom thicknesses and sheet sizes are available depending on order size.

BGS Glass offers many specialty versions with features such as enhanced UV filtering, UV transparency, increased abrasion resistance, and increased impact resistance.

Customers may order sheets cut to size, to maximize yield and keep your costs down.

Acrylic Plastics – Mirror
Customers choose acrylic mirror over glass for its light weight and ease of installation. Midland carries acrylic mirror in a variety of thicknesses, color tints and quality grades.

Polycarbonate Sheets
Tough and durable, polycarbonate sheets, rods, and tubes are usually associated with applications requiring high impact or repeated use.

Significantly stronger than plate glass and acrylic, polycarbonate sheets are a lightweight, economical glazing material that provides increased protection against high traffic use, vandalism and theft.

Used extensively in architectural applications, polycarbonate sheets, rods, and tubing are energy efficient, due to its excellent insulating qualities, when compared to glass of equal thickness. Polycarbonate allows up to 90 percent transmittance of solar energy and 88 percent of visible light. Tints and patterns can be added to help reduce heat gain and to enhance its use in architectural design applications.

Sign grade polycarbonate is specially formulated to provide excellent resistance to the weathering effects of prolonged exposure to the sun. Along with its high impact characteristics, polycarbonate is a good choice for outdoor, and high use, sign applications.

In security applications, polycarbonate laminates provide proven resistance to both physical and ballistic attacks. A variety of polycarbonate, and polycarbonate/acrylic, configurations offer different levels of protection ranging from containment up to UL Level 3 bullet resistance.

Polycarbonate is more dimensionally stable than acrylic over a wide temperature range. And, compared to acrylic, it is only slightly less transparent. Standard polycarbonate doesn’t weather well over time but additives and coatings can be incorporated that significantly increase the weatherability of the polycarbonate.

Because its surface is soft, compared to acrylic, polycarbonate sheets are more prone to scratching. Abrasion-resistant coatings can be added to significantly reduce this shortcoming of polycarbonate.

Typical Polycarbonate Applications
Polycarbonate sheets are used for such applications as:

• Machine guards
• Light lenses
• Signs
• Resistant glazing
• Window and architectural glazing
• Bus shelters and mass transit applications
• Doors
• Food applications (FDA-grade)
• Race Car Windshields

Polycarbonate Sheets
Polycarbonate Sheet Sizes – Polycarbonate sheets range in thicknesses from .007-inch to 6 inches. Thicknesses up to .030-inch are available in 24-by-48 inch sheets. Above this thickness, a variety of sizes are available from 48 by 96 inches to 72 by 120 inches.

Polycarbonate Sheet Colors – Polycarbonate sheets are available in clear, bronze tint, gray tint, white opaque, black and red opaque.

Specialty Polycarbonate Sheets – BGS has access to polycarbonate sheets in FDA-compliant, as well as machine and containment grades. We also carry bullet-resistant and abrasion-resistant polycarbonate sheets. Polycarbonate mirror is available for high impact environments. Mirror may also be ordered with a scratch-resistant coating to maintain clarity.

Clear Plexiglas/Lexan

Colored Plexiglas