Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheet offering light weight and break resistance

Polycarbonate materials offer a great blend of beneficial features this includes high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastics.
Polycarbonate is a very high quality material. Even though it has extraordinary impact-resistance, it has minimal scratch-resistance and so a hard coating typically is applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses lenses and polycarbonate exterior automobile components. The properties associated with polycarbonate are similar to that of those of Acrylic PMMA materials, yet , polycarbonate is definitely 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 most grades of glass.
Polycarbonate carries a glass transition temperature of around 150 °C (302 °F), therefore it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools must be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to help with making strain- and stress-free products.
Unlike most thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo large shape changes without breaking. Due to this fact, for small changes in shape, it can be processed and formed   without needing to be heated using sheet metal techniques, which include forming bends with a brake. Even for sharp angle bends with a tight radius, no heating is usually necessary. This makes it valuable in prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are necessary, which should not be produced from sheet metal. Please keep in mind PMMA/Plexiglas, which is similar in looks to polycarbonate, but it's brittle and cannot be bent at room temperature.

The light weight of polycarbonate, as opposed to glass, has led to development of electronic display screens that replace glass with polycarbonate, for use in mobile and portable devices. Such displays include newer e-ink and several LCD screens, though CRT, plasma screen and other LCD technologies which still require glass for its higher melting temperature and the ability to be etched in finer detail.
Other miscellaneous items created from Polycarbonate include durable, lightweight luggage, MP3/digital audio player cases, computer cases, police riot shields, instrument panels, and blender jars. Many toys and hobby goods are made of polycarbonate parts, e.g. fins, gyro mounts, and flybar locks for use with radio-controlled helicopters.
For use in applications exposed to weathering or UV-radiation, a special surface treatment maybe needed. This can be a coating (e.g. for improved abrasion resistance), or as a coextrusion for enhanced weathering resistance.
The Makrolon Polycarbonate is a thermoplastic that at the beginning, starts as a solid plastic material in the form of small pellets. In a manufacturing process called injection molding, the pelletized resin is heated until they melt. The melted liquid polycarbonate is then rapidly injected into molds, compressed under high pressure and cooled to produce a finished product , that only takes about a minute to complete.

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