Plastic Products for Building & Construction Applications
Products for Versatility, Strength, & Efficiency
About Building & Construction Industry Plastics
No matter how complex or demanding the project, Polymershapes offers a complete portfolio of plastic materials for both indoor and outdoor residential and commercial building and construction applications. When your project specs call for advanced scratch resistance or storm protection, Polymershapes can fulfill your requirements. Performance plastics maximize natural light and weatherability while providing endless design possibilities. This includes an array of materials for glazing, outdoor structures like bus stations or greenhouses, wall coverings and room partitions, protective floor coverings and more!
Polymershapes is the largest North American distributor of LEXAN™ polycarbonate. From standard LEXAN™ 9034 used in a multitude of glazing applications, to MARGARD™ for mar-resistant applications like bus shelters, and THERMOCLEAR™ for greenhouses, aisle containment, or pergola covers, our network of facilities has the inventory of LEXAN™ polycarbonate that you need to get construction underway. Insulgard Security Products, a division of Polymershapes, offers a portfolio of bullet, wind, and impact resistant materials for the most extreme applications.
Plastics Fit For a Wide Range of Aesthetic & Functional Purposes
Acrylic sheets are also available in a variety of patterns, finishes, colors, or even mirrored grades for your most imaginative designs. We offer flame rated materials that meet ASTM E-84 Class A standard, making compliance with building codes a breeze. Polymershapes also offers outdoor cabinetry and furniture grade plastics to withstand the forces of nature, ensuring the appearance and longevity of your designs. HDPE, Foam PVC, and Polypropylene won’t splinter, warp, rot, or delaminate, and offer UV, corrosion, and impact resistance.
Reduce Costs & Increase Workload Efficiency with Industry Leading Products
Plastic is often more cost-effective than traditional building materials and is also more sustainable. Polycarbonate is more energy efficient to produce than glass, and it can reduce heating and cooling costs due to its strong thermal insulation properties. Plastic is available in a wide range of colors and textures, leading to unlimited design possibilities. Its lightweight design makes it safe and easy to install, reducing freight costs. While plastic meant for outdoor applications is engineered to withstand wind, weather, and UV rays, most plastic is recyclable at the end of its lifecycle, making it a sustainable and environmentally conscious choice. Certain materials, like HDPE, are even available in a recycled grade.
Reduce Costs & Increase Workload Efficiency with Industry Leading Products
Plastic is often more cost effective than traditional building materials, and more sustainable too. Polycarbonate is more energy efficient to produce than glass, and it can reduce heating and cooling costs due to its strong thermal insulation properties. Plastic is available in a wide range of colors and textures, leading to unlimited design possibilities. Its lightweight design makes it safe and easy to install, reducing freight costs. While plastic meant for outdoor applications is engineered to withstand wind, weather, and UV rays, most plastic is recyclable at the end of its lifecycle, making it a sustainable and environmentally conscious choice. Certain materials like HDPE are even available in a recycled grade.
Features & Benefits
Lightweight
•High Impact Strength
•High Resistance
•Easy to Fabricate
•Excellent Light Transmission
•Thermal Insulated
•Fire Resistant
•Cost Efficient
Lightweight
Easy to handle and install and reduces shipping and structural costs.
High Impact Strength
Engineered to withstand high-force impacts without cracking or breaking.
High Resistance
Will not splinter, warp, rot, or delaminate, even in harsh environments.
Easy to Fabricate
Adaptable to many fabrication techniques for fast and flexible construction.
Excellent Light Transmission
Offers high optical clarity for daylighting applications.
Thermal Insluated
Help control indoor temperatures and reduce energy costs.
Fire Resistant
Meets ASTM E-84 Class A standards for flame spread and smoke generation.
Cost Efficient
Often more economical than traditional materials like glass, metal, or wood.
Applications
Aisle Containment
Multiwall polycarbonate is a go-to solution for hot and cold aisle containment systems in data centers. Lightweight and easy to install, it offers excellent thermal insulation to support energy efficiency and airflow management. Its rigidity and impact resistance make it a durable alternative to glass or acrylic, while its clear or frosted finish options maintain visibility and aesthetics.
Barriers & Partitions
Simona’s HDPE makes an excellent solution for barriers and bathroom partitions because it won’t corrode even in moist conditions and its chemical resistance makes it easy to clean and sterilize. It’s available in many colors and textures to match your desired aesthetic.
Bus Shelters & Specialty Enclosures
With a proprietary coating offering extreme abrasion resistance, LEXAN™ Margard™ is a specialty polycarbonate sheet perfect for outdoor structures like bus shelters that must be strong enough to withstand extreme weather and a volatile environment. PALGARD is another specialty polycarbonate formulated for top-of-the-line chemical resistance, making it easy to remove graffiti from its surface.
Cannabis Production
As cannabis production is legalized in additional states, many growers are seeking plastic solutions for their new operations. LEXAN™ THERMOCLEAR™’s high light transmission and excellent thermal properties make it perfect for greenhouses of all sorts. PALRAM DURACLAD® Interlocking PVC Liner Panels feature easy tongue and groove installation to quickly construct a low maintenance, moisture resistant structure for drying or storage.
Clear Boarding
When you need to cover the doors and windows of an abandoned building, choose Polycarbonate instead of plywood to prevent drawing attention to the vacancy and retain curb appeal.
Concrete Molds
Just like countertop templates, Cor-X or Coroplast twinwall polypropylene is the ideal solution for concrete molds because it is durable, lightweight, wear resistant, and cost effective.
Conduit Spacer
Polymershapes offers custom duct bank organizers to make installing underground electrical components a breeze. Fabricated to your specifications from chemical and corrosion resistant plastic, these spacers will lead to a faster and safer installation.
Countertop Templates
Cor-X or Coroplast twinwall polypropylene is the ideal lightweight and cost-effective material solution for countertop templates. More durable than cardboard and fiberboard, these reusable corrugated plastics sheets are easy to cut using common tools, wear and water resistant, and easy to bend into custom molds.
Glazing
From windows to bullet-proof barriers, polycarbonate can replace glass in most glazing applications. It’s lighter, more cost effective, and an excellent thermal insulator. At 200x stronger than glass, it’s virtually unbreakable! It can also be easily fabricated into sloped and curved designs. From standard LEXAN™ 9034 to MARGARD™ for more extreme environments, POLYVANTIS offers a complete line of polycarbonate for any glazing project.
Greenhouses
Polycarbonate is a thermal insulator, easy to bend and fabricate, and shatter resistant, making it cost-efficient and highly effective material for commercial, institutional, and residential greenhouses. LEXAN™ THERMOCLEAR™ is a multi-wall polycarbonate sheet offering exceptional light diffusion, optical clarity, and weatherability.
Outdoor Cabinets & Furniture
HDPE won’t chip, rot, delaminate or swell, ensuring your outdoor cabinets and furniture will remain sturdy for a long time. It’s available in a wide range of colors and even a woodgrain design, as well as cabinetry and recycled grades. Simona’s Boat Board HDPE was designed for harsh marine environments and offers the highest weatherability protection for furniture or playground equipment.
Security Windows, Hurricane Glazing, & Shutters
When you need a clear material that’s tougher than glass, we offer a variety of Polycarbonate and PVC solutions with both high impact strength and high optical clarity. LEXAN™ 9600 is fire resistant and meets FAR 25.853. Some solutions are engineered to resist bullets, blasts, and forced entry, making them perfect for security windows.
Skylights
Choose LEXAN™ Polycarbonate for skylights to save on cooling costs by letting in light while blocking infrared rays that would otherwise heat up a room. It’s also an excellent thermal insulator and even offers UV protection.
Wall Cladding
Shatter resistant PVC is a durable choice for many interior wall covering or wall cladding applications and is available in EZ Liner™ Interlocking Panels. LEXAN™ CLINIWALL™ provides better mechanical and thermal properties with excellent chemical resistance, lower smoke toxicity, and an antibacterial grade, making it perfect for public, healthcare, or industrial facilities that require frequent cleaning.
Other Applications
- Aisle containment
- Bearings and bushings
- Carports and canopies
- Caulking and sealants
- Closet and pantry doors
- Counterline systems
- Countertops
- Kickplates
- LED grow light covers
- Lighting panels
- Mirrors
- Privacy windows and screens
- Sound barriers
- Temporary flooring or wall protection coverings
- Window well covers
Products for Building & Construction Applications
ABS/PVC
ABS/PVC blend sheet, such as Boltaron, offers some of the best aspects of these two common thermoplastics. Excellent for thermoforming applications, it maintains high consistency from lot to lot fabricating, and uniformity in deep draws and sharp corners.
Acrylic (Polymethyl Methacrylate, PMMA)
Acrylic, also known as Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA), is a thermoplastic that can be formed into a number of shapes, making it suitable for use in a broad range of industries and products.
Aluminum Composite Material (ACM)
Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) is a rigid sheet made of two sheets of pre-finished aluminum, bonded to a polyethylene core. Light-weight, without sacrificing durability, ACM sheets are often used for outdoor signage, and channel letter backings.
Aluminum Sheet & Coil
Aluminum sheet & coil delivers long-life and durability in outdoor applications, and are most frequently used in the production of electric signs. Aluminum Coils are used in channel letter fabrication to create the sidewall or return of the letter.
Bullet/Blast/Wind Resistant Security Glazing
Through our Insulgard™ Security Products business, we offer a versatile, multi-tiered line of security products, including counterline systems, glazing materials, opaque armor, transaction windows, doors, framing systems, drawers, package passers, deal trays, and speak-thru devices.
ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene)
Used in valves, fittings, bearings, pump components and electrical coatings, ETFE tubing is weather-resistant and inert to most solvents and chemicals. Versilon ETFE tubing is also radiation resistant.
Expanded Foam PVC
Expanded Foam PVC sheet is a versatile material, often used in the sign and graphics industry. Expanded closed-cell polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sheets are durable and rigid with a matte finish.
Industrial PVC/CPVC
PVC is an amorphous thermoplastic material, with a range of continuous use temperatures varying by type (Type I, Type II or CPVC).
Interlocking PVC Panels
When strength, chemical and water resistance, and easy installation are needed, interlocking PVC panel solutions offer the perfect alternative to traditional drywall or FRP panels in agricultural, clinical, food preparation, or residential settings.
Polypropylene Twinwall – Corrugated Plastic
Polypropylene twinwall sheet, also known as fluted polypropylene, or simply as corrugated plastic, is an economical material that is light-weight and durable. In twinwall form, sheets are commonly used for both indoor and outdoor signage, as well as trade show and retail displays.
PVDF (Polyvinylidene Fluoride)
PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride), sometimes known by the tradename Kynar®, is an engineering thermoplastic offering high purity, excellent chemical resistance, flame resistance, and abrasion resistance. Easy to weld, PVDF is often seen semiconductor equipment, tank liners, and various seals, fittings, valves, and pump parts.
Silicone and Adhesives
Silicone sealants and adhesives are inert, synthetic compounds with a wide variety of forms and uses. They are typically heat-resistant and rubber-like.
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