Clear Future Markerboards are created with our 1/2" thick, specially-coated, high-grade acrylic surface.
Durability is in our makings. Our robust abrasion-resistant boards have a unique connection with rough sport. Currently, a version of our surface is being used around the USA, Canada and the world in modern hockey arenas. This surface is an amazing upgrade to the tempered glass boards used in the past.
Now many of the leading ice arenas are using a version of our “Level 2” surface to keep pucks on the ice and players in play such as...
- Air Canada Center - Toronto, Canada
- American Airlines Center - Dallas, TX
- Phillips Arena - Atlanta, GA
- RBC Center - Raleigh, NC
- Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
- Wachovia Center - Philadelphia, PA
- Verizon Center - Washington, DC
- Hartford Civic Center - Hartford, CT
- O2 Arena - London, England
This specially-coated, anti-abrasion surface is being chosen due to it’s advanced properties...
- 64% lighter than comparable tempered glass
- High optical clarity
- Ease of cleaning (Use standard glass cleaners without risk of damaging the surface)
Bringing this surface into office use creates an amazingly durable and reliable marking surface your team can rely on.
See a recent test of our surface facing permanent marker
Download our tech data sheet here
specifications
Surface
Our abrasion resistant, non-porous acrylic sheet is produced by applying a very hard, highly crosslinked polysilicate (a silicon polymer or polysiloxane) coating to an acrylic substrate. This coating provides the sheet with a surface that has 45 times the abrasion resistance of uncoated acrylic.
- Acylic sheet with applied crosslinked polysilicate coating (a silicon polymer or polysiloxane).
- 0.5 inch surface thickness
The Clear Future Markerboard Acrylic Surface is many times more impact resistant than conventional plate glass and has similar impact strength compared to tempered glass. If it does break, our surface will usually crack or fracture into large pieces with edges that are much less sharp than those of broken glass. In addition to its excellent impact strength, our surface of the same size and thickness is half the weight of glass.
Our surface is 0.5" thick. Below find a study provided to us by our manufacturing partner's lab. This test was for the strength of material half of our standard thickness...
| Material |
Falling ball impact strength (ft-lbs) |
Weight (lbs/ft2) |
| 0.250" thick plate glass |
1 |
2.9 |
| 0.250" thick tempered glass |
15.5-29.1 |
2.9 |
| 0.250" high-grade acrylic sheet |
18.1 |
1.5 |
Hardware/Framing
- Acuity and Acuity Frost Series – Slight bevel edge, CNC rounded corners, drilled 0.625 inch holes
- Clarity Series – Extruded aluminum frame channel, marker tray.
- Perception Series – Extruded aluminum posts, cross frames, marker tray. Cast aluminum legs. Dual wheel casters.
- Vision Series – Steel frame. Dual wheel casters.
green commitment
"We are committed to making our world, entrusted to us by our creator, a healthier place. We will act in both in our transactions and in our manufacturing in a manner that makes this possible and makes this actual."
We are proud to partner with a major acrylic supplier and lean on their environmental commitments...
- Acrylic products are one of the most readily recyclable plastics. Some grades can be re-extruded many times without losing their properties. Our acrylics can be “reverse polymerized”
- to yield the original base chemical, MMA, which can then be used to make acrylic again or a number of other commercial products.
- Uses an average of 20% and up to 75% pre-consumer reclaimed acrylic in its extruded acrylic products.
- One of the few manufacturers using only colorants that are free of heavy metals in its acrylic products and has done so since
- the 1980’s.
- Acrylic products are free of bisphenol A.
- Does not add or use plasticizers in the production of our acrylic products.
- Acrylic product do not contain components such as formaldehyde that can result in the release of harmful vapors or gases.
- Acrylic products do not contain paints or adhesives.
For architects, engineers and designers who are participating in a project to achieve LEED certification from the USGBC, potential LEED credits can be earned in various areas; especially the following:
Furniture
As a component for furniture or a shelving display, our acrylic products comply with the credit requirements to obtain 1 point.
