Altuglas® Black: highlighting colour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lynda Habib
Phone: 33 1 78 66 23 00
Paris, France - 29 February 2008

Altuglas^® is the most transparent modern material in the world. It is also the one that takes the mysterious magic of black to new heights. 

Velvety black, caviar black, diamond black
From Karl Lagerfeld to Dom Perignon, Altuglas^® Black is the basis for luxuriant, fashionable and high-tech design. Its power of attraction is universal.

For points of sale and public places, it fascinates right from the front panel: black display-case frames, black caskets for star products or illuminated black signs.

Indoors, Altuglas^® Black has a velvety look.  It softens the brushed aluminium of a low table by giving it a sensual context. Like a line of eye-shadow, it emphasises the linear: display cases, pedestals, racks and shelving. It adds an opulent and powerful sense of luxury to fittings, staircases, arches and balusters, as well as fashion show catwalks. 

For Altuglas^® Black can be both sober and festive. It fits perfectly into the trend towards neo baroque.

Altuglas^®Black: colour’s best friend
Black is back. Its growing success can be explained by new experiments with black. It has become fashionable to use it in many ways and quantities.

Today, Altuglas^® Black enhances the designer’s palette:

- For vibrant reds on makeup display stands
- For balancing white in beauty-product packaging    
- For flamboyant blues in electronics
- For highlighting greens with plant decorations, bringing elegance to the most daring fluorescent colours and intensifying pastels and iridescent colours.

Altuglas^®  Black is available in a whole range of thicknesses, with a single matt or two gloss surfaces. It can be bent, thermoformed or sculpted like any other Altuglas^® sheet. It lends itself to an infinite variety of screen-printed decoration, ink-jet printing, gilding, laser engraving, laser cutting, etc.

Altuglas^® is a registered trademark of Arkema for acrylic sheet and resins, throughout the world other than the continent of America, where it is registered by Arkema as Plexiglas^®