Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate Flat Sheet offer high impact strength

Polycarbonate plastic materials give you a great blend of useful features including high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates in between commodity plastics and engineering materials.
Polycarbonate is a very sturdy material. Although it has exceptional impact-resistance, it has got lower scratch-resistance and so a hard coating is often applied to polycarbonate eye protection and polycarbonate exterior motor vehicle components. The properties associated with polycarbonate are like those of common Acrylic materials, yet , polycarbonate is undoubtedly 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 most grades of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature of approximately 150 °C (302 °F), therefore it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools ought to be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) for making strain- and almost stress free products.
Unlike almost all other thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive shape changes without cracking. Hence, it could be processed and formed   cold using standard sheet metal techniques, such as forming bends on a brake. For even sharp angle bends having a tight radius, no heating is usually necessary. This makes it valuable in prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are important, which cannot be crafted from sheet metal. Understand that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but it's brittle and cannot be bent at room temperature.

The light weight of polycarbonate, compared with glass, has led to development of electronic touch screens that replace glass materials with polycarbonate, for use in mobile and portable devices. Such displays include newer e-ink as well as 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 kinds of items made 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 products are made out of polycarbonate parts, e.g. fins, gyro mounts, and flybar locks for use with radio-controlled helicopters.
For use in applications subjected to weathering or UV-radiation, a special surface treatment maybe needed. This may be a coating (e.g. for improved abrasion resistance), or a coextrusion for enhanced weathering resistance.
The Makrolon Polycarbonate is a thermoplastic that starts as a solid material in the form of small pellets. In a manufacturing process called injection molding, the pellets are heated until they melt. The liquid polycarbonate is then rapidly pushed into molds, compressed under high pressure and cooled to form a finished product , that only takes about a minute to complete.

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