Covestro Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheeting offering light weight and break resistance

Makrolon Polycarbonate products give you a unique balance of beneficial features including temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates in between commodity plastics and engineering plastics.
Polycarbonate is definitely a high quality material. Although it features extraordinary impact-resistance, it has got a lower scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating could be applied to polycarbonate eyewear and polycarbonate exterior auto equipment. The characteristics of polycarbonate are comparable to those of common Acrylic materials, yet , polycarbonate is always stronger, it is usable in a wider temperature range and is a bit more expensive. This plastic polymer is highly transparent to visible light and it has better light transmission characteristics than many different types of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature of around 150 °C (302 °F), consequently it softens gradually above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools will have to be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) in order to make strain- and stress-free products.
Unlike almost all other thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo large shape changes without breaking or cracking. For this reason, it is sometimes processed and formed   without needing to be heated using standard sheet metal techniques, such as forming bends on a brake. For even sharp angle bends having a tight radius, no heating is generally necessary. This makes it valuable in prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are needed, which can't be crafted from sheet metal. Remember that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is similar in looks to polycarbonate, but it's brittle and can't be bent without heating.
Polycarbonate is commonly found in eye protection, and also in other projectile-resistant viewing and lighting applications that would normally be thought of as requiring the use of glass, but require much greater impact-resistance. Several types of lenses are made of polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety visors for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are normally crafted from polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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