Acrylic bathtubs – this is the last product, which appeared in the Russian market of bathrooms and immediately subdued buyers for its diversity. Our shops are tubs of acrylic from many manufacturers, but what is their the difference In practice, there is no big difference, since virtually all acrylic sheet is produced in Holland. A reasonable question, but what's all the same distinction, and why some acrylic baths are more expensive than others? The answer – it's sort of acrylic, form design and the layers of reinforcement. Let's look at the order of these three items: What is acrylic? As written in the handbook of Wikipedia: "Acrylic – a colloquial name of polymers based on derivatives of acrylic and methacrylic acid and polymer compositions of them. Methacrylates, the common name of esters of methacrylic acid and its salts. Esters – colorless liquid, salt – crystalline substance. Industrial importance mainly esters of ethanol, methanol, butanol, which is synthesized from various polymers. In particular, by the polymerization of methyl acrylate produce acrylic Plexiglas.
"Or Simply put – the plastic. All acrylic baths are made approximately the same technology – is taken acrylic sheet and a specialized vacuum chambers by heating a sheet attached to the required shape. In Further, to impart rigidity design – the outside of the bath applied to a reinforcing layer, the surface is covered with a special acrylic bath option of epoxy resin, which , binds Aquatic plastic. The procedure is somewhat similar to the imposition of gypsum in travmopunkte.