Covestro Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheets offering light weight and break resistance

Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate materials offer a unique balance of beneficial features this includes high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastics and engineering plastic materials.
Polycarbonate is a very rugged material. Though it has very high impact-resistance, it possesses a lower scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating is often applied to polycarbonate eye protection lenses as well as polycarbonate exterior vehicle equipment. The properties associated with polycarbonate are generally similar those of Acrylic PMMA materials, and yet polycarbonate is actually 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 has better light transmission characteristics than many kinds of glass.
Polycarbonate carries a glass transition temperature of about 150 °C (302 °F), in order that it softens gradually above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools must be held at high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to help with making strain- and almost stress free products.
Unlike many thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive shape changes without breaking or cracking. Because of that, for small changes in shape, it can be processed and formed   at room temperature using sheet metal techniques, for instance forming bends on a brake. Even for sharp angle bends with a tight radius, no heating is generally necessary. This makes it attractive prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are needed, which may not be crafted from sheet metal. Understand that PMMA/Plexiglas, which is similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but it is brittle and can't be bent with out a heating process.
Polycarbonate is commonly used in eye protection, as well as in other projectile-resistant optical type applications that would normally be thought of as requiring the use of glass, but require higher impact-resistance. Many kinds of lenses are created from polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety goggles for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are commonly fabricated from polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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