Bayan Signage cuts acrylic fascia signboards on its own laser cutters and CNC routers in Ajman: coloured raised letters, clear panels on stainless stand-offs and lit acrylic faces. We specify UV-stabilised cast sheet for every outdoor job, drill it to allow for UAE heat, and back street-facing signs with a 5-year outdoor warranty.
Acrylic fascia signs use acrylic sheet, also sold as PMMA or Perspex, for the lettering or the whole face of the shop sign: laser-cut letters in brand colours, a clear panel held off the wall on stainless pins with graphics behind it, or the opal faces of lit letters. They suit cafés, boutiques, phone shops, salons and clinics that want saturated colour and a polished finish without paying for fabricated metal on every letter.
Acrylic rewards a good specification and punishes a cheap one. Cast sheet cut on a laser comes out with a glassy, flame-polished edge and colour that holds for years; extruded or recycled sheet looks the same in the showroom, then crazes around the fixings and turns yellow after a few summers. Acrylic also moves about 0.07 mm per metre for every degree, so a 3 m panel can grow 8 mm between a winter night and a July afternoon. We size holes, joints and pins for that movement in the shop drawing.
Bayan Signage, the production arm of Bayan Advertising with 15 years in the UAE, has run its Ajman factory since 2016. Our laser cutters and CNC routers handle acrylic every day, from single raised logos to bilingual shop names, and our LED team lights the faces in-house. Because nothing is outsourced, the person who chose your sheet is a short walk from the person who cut it.
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Acrylic shows up on a shopfront in a handful of distinct builds. Each needs a different fixing and a different sheet, so we settle the build before quoting.
Laser-cut coloured letters, 5 to 20 mm thick, pinned or bonded to an ACP or painted backing. The most popular acrylic shop sign for daytime trade.
View details →An 8 to 12 mm clear sheet floated off the wall on stainless pins, with reverse-applied graphics protected behind the face. Glass-like depth at a fraction of the weight.
View details →Opal or coloured acrylic faces on lit letters, so the brand colour glows after dark. The choice for shops that trade late and need reach.
View details →Thick acrylic letters pushed through a routed metal face and lit from a box behind. Crisp, raised and glowing, with a dark panel around them.
View details →LEDs along one edge make CNC-routed or printed areas of a clear panel glow. Best under canopies and arcades, where the effect is not washed out by sun.
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We measure the fascia, photograph the wall finish and note sun direction and distance from the sea. You give us brand colour references, and we match them to cast sheet colours or vinyl before anything is ordered.
Our draftsmen size letter thickness to letter height and mark every pin hole 3 to 4 mm oversize, with joints placed where the panel can grow without pushing its neighbour.
Letters are laser-cut for a polished edge; thick sheet and large panels go on the CNC router to ±0.1 mm. Layered logos are aligned on jigs and bonded with clear structural adhesive.
Reverse graphics are applied to the back face with a white or colour flood coat. Lit builds get LED modules and are run at full brightness in our test area to check for hot spots.
Each piece is checked against the approved artwork for size, colour and edge finish, then packed with protective film still on the face so it reaches the site unscratched.
The crew drills from a full-size template, fixes pin bases with resin anchors and tightens caps by hand. Over-tightened caps are the commonest cause of cracked panels, so no power drivers touch the acrylic.
This is our starting point for an outdoor acrylic shopfront. We adjust it to your frontage and brand, and itemise every change on the quote.
| Component | Our standard | Upgrade options | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheet type | UV-stabilised cast acrylic | Polycarbonate where impact is likely | Cast sheet resists yellowing and crazing; extruded sheet is for indoor use. |
| Letter thickness | 10 mm for most shop names | 15 to 20 mm for large logos | Thickness that matches letter height keeps the sign from looking flimsy across the road. |
| Clear face panel | 10 mm with polished edges | 12 mm, or a contrasting backing panel | Thinner sheet looks cheap at fascia scale and bows between pins in summer. |
| Graphics | Reverse-applied 3M cast vinyl | Full-colour reverse print with white flood coat | Graphics behind the face are protected from sun, rain and cleaning. |
| Stand-off pins | Stainless 304, 19 to 25 mm diameter | 316 grade for coastal sites | Coastal salt spots 304 within a few years near JBR, the Palm and Al Marjan. |
| Fixing holes | 3 to 4 mm oversize | Slotted holes on long panels | A hole drilled to pin size cracks the sheet in the first hot week. |
Acrylic is forgiving to design with and unforgiving to specify badly. These are the five things we check before we cut a single sheet for a shopfront.
Extruded acrylic is cheaper and looks identical on handover day. Outdoors, it can show fine cracks around fixings and along cut edges within a couple of summers, and some adhesives and cleaners craze it on contact. Cast sheet costs more because it is made differently, not because of a brand name. Ask for the sheet type on the quotation, and if a supplier will not write it down, assume it is extruded.
Our rule of thumb is 5 mm for letters up to about 150 mm, 10 mm up to around 400 mm, and 15 to 20 mm above that. Three millimetre letters that look fine on a reception wall disappear on a 6 m shopfront. For reading distance, a 300 mm letter is comfortable from about 30 to 35 m, which covers most units seen across a service road and car park.
With a clear panel, the wall behind is part of the sign. Coloured letters on clear acrylic over a busy tiled wall get lost; the same letters over a plain dark ACP backing look expensive. We pick a backing that contrasts with the letters rather than matching them, and we test it on a photo of your actual frontage before approval.
Cast acrylic commonly comes in sheets of about 3,050 x 2,050 mm, so a clear fascia longer than that needs a joint, and joints in clear sheet are very visible. On long frontages we either split the design into deliberate panels with even gaps, or put raised letters on an ACP band instead, which hides joints far better.
Gold and rose-gold mirror acrylic looks spectacular in a salon or mall unit, but its reflective coating breaks down in direct UAE sun and the face scratches when dusty cloths touch it. For a mirror look on a street fascia we suggest mirror stainless or PVD-finished steel letters, which hold the effect for years.
We price each acrylic sign from its drawing. Send your logo files, the fascia size and a photo, and we usually send an itemised quote within 24 hours, separating fabrication, installation and permits.
Cast sheet costs more than extruded, and thickness raises cost quickly: a 20 mm logo uses four times the material of a 5 mm one and takes longer to cut.
Each colour is a separate sheet, and layered logos are aligned and bonded by hand. A one-colour name is far quicker than a multi-layer emblem.
Large clear panels are harder to handle and fix. Long fascias need more pins, joints and careful alignment on site.
Simple cut vinyl is economical. Full-colour reverse printing with a flood coat adds print and lamination time but lasts longer outdoors.
Stainless pins are priced per piece and a big panel may need twelve or more. Grade 316 for coastal sites adds a little.
Adding light changes the build to lit letters, edge-lit or push-through, with LEDs, drivers and an electrical connection, which usually doubles the scope.
An outdoor acrylic shop sign is treated like any other fascia: it usually needs a permit from Dubai Municipality, Sharjah Municipality or Ajman Municipality, or from the relevant free-zone authority, plus the landlord's approval where the building has a sign zone. The trade name on the sign normally has to match the licence in Arabic and English, and we check both before the drawing goes in.
Acrylic is a combustible plastic, so on larger facades and towers some consultants limit how much of it can be used, or ask for the sheet data with the submission. That rarely affects a ground-floor shop sign, but it can change the design on a podium or tower crown. Requirements vary, and we confirm them for your exact site at the survey.
Our laser cutters and CNC routers cut acrylic every day at our Ajman factory, so edge quality and tolerance are controlled by us, not a cutting shop.
We use UV-stabilised cast acrylic for every street-facing sign and state the sheet type on the quote.
Outdoor acrylic signs are covered for 5 years on structure, finish and LEDs, with a warranty document at handover.
Our designers size Arabic and English as one composition and check spelling against your trade licence before cutting.
Sheet, cutting, hardware, lighting, installation and permits are listed separately, so you can see where the money goes.
National retail groups, international brands and hundreds of independent shops across the UAE, most of them returning customers.
Yes, if it is UV-stabilised cast acrylic of a sensible thickness, fixed with room to expand. It handles heat and humidity well and keeps its colour for many years. The problems people see come from cheap extruded sheet, holes drilled too tight or cleaning with solvents, and all three are avoided at the ordering stage.
The price depends on the size, the sheet thickness, how many colours and layers the logo has, the fixing hardware and whether the sign is lit. A one-colour name in 10 mm acrylic on a backing panel is at the economical end; a lit, layered bilingual logo costs more. We send an itemised quote, usually within 24 hours of receiving your files.
For clear backing panels outdoors, 8 to 12 mm is typical. For raised letters, 5 mm suits small text, 10 mm suits most shop names up to about 400 mm high, and 15 to 20 mm suits larger logos. Thicker sheet looks richer and casts a stronger shadow, but it costs more and weighs more.
Good UV-stabilised cast acrylic should stay clear and colourful for many years outdoors. Yellowing and brittleness are typical of extruded, recycled or unbranded sheet. Afternoon sun on a west-facing fascia is the hardest test, so on those frontages we are especially strict about sheet choice, and we avoid colours such as some reds and oranges that fade faster.
Yes, in several ways. Opal acrylic forms the faces of front-lit letters, thick acrylic letters can be pushed through a routed face and lit from behind, and clear panels can be edge-lit so the routed or printed artwork glows. Each needs a different build, so it is best decided at the design stage rather than added later.
Yes. Laser cutting handles fine Arabic letterforms well, including dots and diacritics, as long as the smallest parts are thick enough to survive outdoors. We set the Arabic and English as one design, check spelling against your trade licence, and slightly thicken any stroke that would be too fragile at fascia size.
Rinse it with plenty of clean water first to lift the sand, then wipe gently with a microfibre cloth and mild soap. Never wipe dusty acrylic dry, and avoid glass cleaners with ammonia, acetone or alcohol, which can craze the sheet. Light scratches on clear panels can often be polished out by our team.
Usually yes. We keep the cutting files for signs we make, so a damaged letter can be re-cut in matching sheet and fixed back in place. Colour match is close if the original has not faded badly; if it has, we suggest replacing the whole word so the sign stays even.
Send your logo, the fascia size and a site photo. Our estimating team replies with options and an itemised price, usually within 24 hours.