The application range of acetate is very wide: fabrics, eyeglass frames, handles, trays, hair claws, hair clips, biomedicine, high-end handicrafts, etc. It is used in many industries.
1. Hair Accessory Products
Acetate plates are also often used in hair accessories, making hair clips, hair bands, grab clips, earrings, rings, and many other products.
There are many materials for making hair accessories, such as plastic, metal, fabric, natural stone, acrylic, etc.
Plastics are characterized by light weight, a strong sense of design, and low price, but people’s concern for environmental protection has increased, and many people want to use environmentally friendly and degradable materials.
Metal features are strong and can be used for a long time. But it lacks a lot of colors. If you want to customize it, you need a very expensive mold, usually 1000 USD.
Fabric is also often used in hair accessories. It has many colors and is lightweight. It can also be combined with plastic and iron to design hair accessories.
Acetate plate is a popular hair accessory material in recent years. It is characterized by multiple choices of colors, environmentally friendly materials, low MOQ, and easy design. Many brands are using this material. Alexandria in France is the largest brand of acetate hair accessories, and many GUCCI and CHANEL products use acetate plates.
2. Glasses frames
Sunglasses frames are often seen in daily life. In addition to acetate, plastic, metal, stainless steel, wood, and mixed materials are often used.
The characteristics of plastic eyeglass frames are non-allergenic and lightweight, but they are not environmentally friendly products. Plastic is a serious pollutant to the earth and takes hundreds of years to degrade. So plastic glasses frames will be eliminated.
Metal eyeglass frames are characterized by sturdiness, many styles, and light weight. Most of them are made of alloys and then electroplated on the surface. Change the surface color by eco-friendly electroplating in gold, silver, or black. is a very widely used material.
The characteristics of wooden glasses frames are natural materials, there are many choices of colors, and some use bamboo as the material, but the disadvantages are also very obvious: they are easy to break, and their lifespan is short.
Acetate frames are characterized by natural materials, light weight, stretchy, non-irritating to the skin, non-fading, and availability in many colors. Therefore, most people in the market now prefer eyeglass frames made of acetate sheets.
Acetate colloidal particles and pigments are formed by pressing or extruding a plate. The overall thickness range is 0.5-20 mm, and the main thickness range is 1-10 mm. An acetate sheet can be divided into a pressing sheet and an extruding sheet according to the production process. Among them, the pressing plate mainly refers to the plate made by adding pre-colored and pre-shaped particles into the mold and forming it by hot pressing; the extrusion plate mainly refers to the plate made by the processes of color mixing, mixing, granulation, extrusion, etc. At present, the pressing plate is divided into floral material and board material according to color and pattern; the extrusion plate is divided into monochrome, cable, laminate, and gradient according to different colors and patterns.
3. Daily Necessities (handles, trays, spoons)
An acetate sheet can change a lot of shapes; we only need a simple mold. The cost of the mold is usually between 50 and 150 US dollars; according to different materials and different requirements, the cost of abrasives is different.
The materials of abrasive tools are polyester, resin, and stainless steel. According to the hardness of different materials, the cost of abrasive tools is different.
With the mold, it is much easier to make daily necessities. For example, if you ask to make an acetate spoon, then we only need to cut the shape of the spoon, then polish, surface treat, and then shape it with an abrasive tool to get an acetic acid salt spoon.
However, the characteristic of acetate is that it is not resistant to high temperatures, so the acetate spoon can only be used as an ice cream spoon or in some low-temperature environments.
Acetate Handles
We have customers requesting us to customize acetate handles. Using 5mm thick material, the handle head is connected with a special shape. We customized the thickness to 5 mm and then made a special handle by customizing the special mold. This customer’s order is 2000 pieces. We are very good to meet the needs of customers.
Acetate Toothbrush
There was a brand customer who gave a design drawing of a toothbrush. This client wants to customize the acetate toothbrush and engrave the brand logo. Because the radius of the toothbrush is not large and the thickness requirement is not high, it is relatively simple.
The problem with acetate toothbrushes is the bristles, which require accurate knowledge of the hole size, density, and shape for implantation. This is the more accurate product. Usually, our design is also finished.
Acetate Box
We have made many jewelry boxes made of acetate material, according to different functions and shapes. We design in different sizes, colors, and functions.
The piano case is designed by us, using a red and black double-layer acetate sheet, with white as the keyboard of the piano and red as the surface. There are also four support feet. It is a mini version of the piano.
Let us know if you have any ideas. It’s not difficult for us.
4. Cloth Fabric
Acetate fabric is a man-made fiber, which is characterized by breathability, resilience, no static electricity, and no pilling, and can replace silk.
Acetate fabrics are very bright and close to silk. Most of the fabrics that use acetate are high-end clothing. Such as dresses, Chinese cheongsams, wedding dresses, etc.
Acetate materials can also be used in many other fields, such as medical treatment and biomedicine.
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