Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate Flat Sheet offering light weight and break resistance

Makrolon Polycarbonate products give you a unique balance of helpful features including high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates in between commodity plastics and engineering plastics.
Polycarbonate is definitely a high quality material. Even though it features exceptional impact-resistance, it has minimal scratch-resistance and so a hard coating could be applied to polycarbonate eye protection lenses as well as polycarbonate exterior motor vehicle equipment. The properties associated with polycarbonate are along the lines of those of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA, acrylic), except polycarbonate is 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 has a glass transition temperature near 150 °C (302 °F), in order that it softens gradually above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools should be held at higher temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to help make strain- and reduced stress products.
Unlike most thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo large changes in basic shape without breaking or cracking. Hence, it could be processed and formed   at room temperature using standard sheet metal techniques, for example 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 required, which may not be created from sheet metal. Be aware that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is certainly similar in looks to polycarbonate, but is brittle and can't be bent without heating.

The light weight of polycarbonate, compared to glass, has led to growth and development of electronic view screens that replace the traditional glass with polycarbonate, for use in mobile and portable devices. Such displays include newer e-ink and a few LCD screens, though CRT, plasma screen and other LCD technologies still generally require glass for its higher melting temperature and the ability to be etched in finer detail.
Other types of items manufactured from Polycarbonate include durable, lightweight luggage, MP3/digital audio player cases, computer cases, high impact riot shields, instrument panels, and common style blender jars. Many toys and hobby products are produced from 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 may be a coating (e.g. for improved abrasion resistance), or perhaps the coextrusion for enhanced weathering resistance.
The Makrolon Polycarbonate is a thermoplastic that begins as a solid material in the form of small pellets. In a manufacturing process called injection molding, these small pellets are heated until they melt in to a thick liquid. The liquid polycarbonate is then rapidly injected into a mold, compressed under high pressure and cooled to produce a finished product , all in just a minute or so.

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