Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheets offering light weight and break resistance

Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate products offer a unique balance of useful features this includes temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates in between commodity plastic materials and engineering materials.
Polycarbonate is definitely a high quality material. Whilst it offers considerable impact-resistance, it has lower scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating may be applied to polycarbonate eyewear and polycarbonate exterior automotive components. The properties associated with polycarbonate tend to be along the lines of those of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA, acrylic), except 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 it has better light transmission characteristics than several types of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature near 150 °C (302 °F), as a result it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools are required to be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to help make strain- and reduced stress products.
Unlike many thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive deformations without cracking. Subsequently, it may be processed and formed   cold using standard sheet metal techniques, for example forming bends with a brake. Even for sharp angle bends with a tight radius, no heating is generally necessary. This makes it useful for prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are essential, which may not be produced from sheet metal. Remember that PMMA/Plexiglas, which is similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but is brittle and cannot be bent without heating.
Polycarbonate is commonly used in eye protection, as well as in other projectile-resistant viewing and lighting applications that would normally be thought of as requiring the use of glass, but require much higher impact-resistance. Several types of lenses are created from polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety glasses for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are normally made out of polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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