Covestro Makrolon Polycarbonate Flat Sheet offering light weight and break resistance

Polycarbonate plastic products give you a unique balance of useful features this includes temp resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastic materials.
Polycarbonate is a very high quality material. Although it features higher impact-resistance, it possesses lower scratch-resistance and so a hard coating can be applied to polycarbonate eyewear lenses and polycarbonate exterior auto components. The properties relating to polycarbonate are generally comparable to those of Acrylic PMMA materials, but 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 carries a glass transition temperature near 150 °C (302 °F), therefore it softens gradually above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools are required to be held at high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to help with making strain- and stress-free products.
Unlike many thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive changes in basic shape without cracking or breaking. For that reason, for small changes in shape, it can be processed and formed   at room temperature 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 useful for prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are important, which can not be created from sheet metal. Note that PMMA/Plexiglas, which happens to be similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but it's brittle and cannot be bent without heating.

The light weight of polycarbonate, as opposed to glass, has led to advancement of electronic touch screens that replace the traditional glass 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 do require glass for its higher melting temperature and its ability to be etched in finer detail.
Other miscellaneous items made from Polycarbonate include durable, lightweight luggage, MP3/digital audio player cases, computer cases, police riot shields, instrument panels, and common style blender jars. Many toys and hobby products are constructed from 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 either can 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 plastic material in the form of small pellets. In a manufacturing process called injection molding, the pelletized resin is heated until they melt and become a very thick liquid. This liquid polycarbonate is then rapidly pushed into a mold, compressed under high pressure and cooled to create a finished product in a matter of minutes.

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