Basic Acrylic Monomer Manufacturers, Inc. Paints Coatings Personal Use Industrial Textiles Building Construction Adhesives Sealants Click on photos above for more information about the vast uses of acrylics Acrylic Monomers Add Benefits Convenience In Our Lives Acrylates are a family of monomers that serve as fundamental building blocks for a wide variety of industrial and consumer products. Acrylates and acrylic acid derivatives are used as starting materials for polymerization and copolymerization reactions as well as contributing critical performance properties to a host of complex and highly specialized formulation systems. Acrylic acid AA has been used for more than 50 years as an essential building block in the production of some of our most commonly used industrial and consumer products. Approximately twothirds of the AA manufactured in the United States is used to produce acrylic esters methyl acrylate butyl acrylate ethyl acrylate and 2ethylhexyl acrylate which when polymerized are ingredients in paints coatings textiles adhesives plastics and many other products.