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Bespoke Clear Plastic Guards @ Sentinel Plastics Ltd

Clear Plastic Guards – Covers – Shrouds – Screens – Windows

Plastic Machining | Milling | Routing | Turning | Fabrication

When choosing your type of Plastic for your Clear Plastic Guard or similar, careful consideration should be taken. For example; is it for impact safety, splash resistance, display protection only , sneeze guard, corner cover or just a simple viewing window. These are just some of the questions you may have to consider when deciding on the correct plastic for the job.

Transparent or Opaque Plastic Guard Materials

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PETG offers good impact strength, excellent thermoforming and fabrication characteristics, and excellent resistance to chemicals. Easily cut, sawn, drilled, routed and bent. Not scratch resistant unless coated via a secondary opp. Technical term is Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol.
Polycarbonate, commonly known by the manufacturer’s names of Makrolon GP® and Lexan sheet®. Combining high impact and temperature resistance with optical clarity. Easily cut, sawn, drilled, routed and bent. Polycarbonate is also an excellent candidate for fabricating to use in a wide range of applications. Not scratch resistant unless coated via a secondary opp. Much stronger impact resistance than Acrylic, PVC or PETG.

Lexan Fabrication - Polycarbonate Fabrications - Plastic Fabrication

Experienced Plastic Fabricators – Machined and Assembled Polycarbonate Covers

Acrylic – Data Acrylic is a plastic material with outstanding optical clarity. Acrylic sheet is easy to fabricate, bonds well with adhesives and solvents, and is easy to thermoform. Extremely popular for retail display. Easily cut, sawn, drilled, routed and bent. The better choice for scratch resistance but offering far less impact strength. The technical name is Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), and it comes in Extruded or Cast forms. The price of acrylic is cheaper than Polycarbonate and PETG.

PVC has good hardness and mechanical properties, Good electrical insulating properties, Very high chemical & moisture resistance. Equally PVC has excellent forming characteristics, dimensional stability, bondable, self-extinguishing and importantly compared to others fairly inexpensive. Easily cut, sawn, drilled, routed and bent. Not scratch resistant unless coated via a secondary opp. Also loses out against PETG and Polycarbonate on impact resistance. Technically known as Polyvinyl Chloride.

Transparent, Clear Plastic Guard Materials – Some Typical uses.

PETG – Food guarding, its high level of chemical resistance lends it perfectly for use with foodstuffs and in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors.
Polycarbonate – Is highly suited to high protection situations, interior and exterior. Machine guards, vehicle safety screens, Impact guards, Security windows.
Acrylic (Perspex) – Well known for its display preferences. Photo framing, retail display, decorative lighting, lenses, low impact shields, signs and signage, trophies and awards, decorations and jewellery.
PVC Is also commonly used for very similar instances to Acrylic but does not retain the same clarity over time. Signage, fume cabinets, industrial applications, point of sale and finally poster covers.

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Machine Guards are most commonly made from Polycarbonate, PETG, Acrylic or Clear PVC.

The close tolerance machinability, transparency and sheer toughness of Polycarbonate make it the ideal material for machine guards. Polycarbonate is available in both general purpose and FDA grades when food contact is a concern. Polycarbonate is also inherently self-extinguishing and can carry a V-0 flame test rating. PETG guards can also be FDA approved and when chemical resistance is a priority.

Clear is the dominant color, but, all of the materials listed above are also available in varying grades of smoke/grey/bronze shades if that is desired.

Plastic Fabricators – Fabricating PETG Guards and Covers.

Plastic Machine Guards

We machine, bend, glue and weld using Polycarbonate, PET-G and Acrylic’s to customer specification, manufacturing robust guards with high visibility that can let you see the product being made and gives you the protection from moving parts.

A high proportion are made from polycarbonate which gives good visibility and strength for protection. Sentinel fabricate in different materials depending on their suitability, polycarbonates, acrylic and PET-G.

PET-G which has a class 1 fire rating has a similar quality to polycarbonate.

We are extremely versatile and are here to help with any requirements you may have. Our team are highly knowledgeable and able to provide valuable assistance and advice appropriate to the manufacture of your Plastic Machine Guards.

Experienced Plastic Fabricators

Plastic Machining | Milling | Routing | Turning | Fabrication

The company has been involved in Fabrication since 1989. And so, we can with pride, class ourselves as very experienced Plastic Fabricators. Sentinel Plastics skilled team also have many years experience under their belts, as individual Plastic Fabricators. Thus, giving us the ability to manufacture parts from simple to highly complex shapes, to high quality standards. Our customers are happy in knowing, we have highly experienced staff with up to date fabrication capabilities.

Its important to note, our Plastic Fabrication services are available on the vast range of Engineering and Insulation plastics in today’s market. Notably, nothing is subcontracted, everything is purely in-house plastic fabrication. A diverse range of plastic shapes can be produced by our experienced plastic fabricators, sometimes, if required, with a rapid delivery. Recognised reliably as specialised Plastic fabricators, in Perspex acrylic, PETG and polycarbonate. As well as, many more types of engineering plastic materials from PVC, Polypropylene, polyethylene to ABS.

Also relevant, and on the same site, is that Sentinel Plastics Ltd offers a comprehensive machine shop to manufacture components and parts to your exact requirements. While most Companies Plastic Fabricators can concentrate on specific types of plastics, or methods of manufacture. Sentinel is one of those unique Companies Machining & fabricating plastic parts in all plastics and using a variation of methods.

Plastic Line Bending

Without doubt, Sentinel Plastics fabrication capabilities takes many forms. These forms fall into many and varied material brackets. While being able to Weld and bend Polypropylene, PVC and Polycarbonate. Adhesives and Folding/ Plastic Line Bending other materials such as Perspex, ABS, PVC and PETG. Assembly also takes place, with fixings or adhesives of Polycarbonate, PETG, Polypropylene and PVC. Capabilities include, plastic bending, combined with skills which have been developed through many years of experience. Hence, our experienced Plastic Fabricators Division can cut, bend, glue, weld, saw, route, assemble, and polish just about any type of polymer to create virtually any product.

Experienced Plastic Fabricators of Plastic Guards

Bespoke projects require extra attention. Our technical knowledge and innovative processes are there to assist all the way from concept and design through to manufacture. Be it simple Perspex panels or polycarbonate machine guards through to complex plastic fabrication. Through pride and dedication, Sentinel is a respected manufacturer of high-quality Guards, Screens, fabricated components, all used in a wide variety of industries.

Reliable Supplier

We are a reliable manufacturer of high-quality Customer Specification Parts, which includes covers and shrouds. Plus, many more variations of machined and fabricated components used in a wide variety of industries.

In Summary

To conclude, our emphasis is on the importance of offering a comprehensive one stop shop. Able to manufacture components and parts to customers exacting requirements. So, unlike most others, only Machining specific Plastics, Sentinel’s comprehensive knowledge on all types of plastic methods of manufacture.

Finally, here at Sentinel Plastics Ltd we are versatile and very experienced plastic fabricators. Why not call us, for any requirements we aim to be as helpful as possible. When molding or extruding is not a viable option, then we can help!

Call us on 01384 633082.

Or email us at sales@sentinelplastics.co.uk

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