Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. announces a new addition to its ACRYPLEN series of acrylic films. ACRYPLEN 3D-MR, which goes on sale in August 2009, is a film made by coating a special light-cured acrylic resin onto ACRYPLEN. For this reason, we have named this product 3D (three-dimensional) MR (mar-resistance).

Mitsubishi Rayon's ACRYPLEN series of acrylic films all exhibit excellent weatherability, transparency, and heat-moldability, and enable users to achieve attractive decorative effects such as a jet-black color or a metallic sheen after printing or vapor deposition processes. For these reasons, these products are widely used in such fields as construction materials, reflective materials, and automobile interior materials. They are also employed as alternatives to paint undercoatings, thus avoiding the need to use organic solvents and thereby lowering the environmental burden imposed by normal painting processes.
While the market applications of the ACRYPLEN series have been expanding, the need for more mar-resistant films has been growing. The problem hitherto has been that the application of a hard coating to a film reduces its heat-moldability, resulting in cracks and bleaching. By applying a light-curing process after heat-molding, Mitsubishi Rayon has succeeded in creating an acrylic film that exhibits both three-dimensional heat-moldability and mar-resistance.

The product comes in roll form