Covestro Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheets offering light weight and break resistance

Polycarbonate products give you a great blend of beneficial features this includes temp resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates in between commodity plastics and engineering materials.
Polycarbonate is a very tough material. Although it offers exceptional impact-resistance, it has reduced scratch-resistance and so a hard coating is often applied to polycarbonate eyewear lenses as well as polycarbonate exterior automotive components. The characteristics relating to polycarbonate are similar to those of common Acrylic materials, and yet polycarbonate is going to be 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 many different types of glass.
Polycarbonate carries 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 high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to make strain- and stress-free products.
Unlike many thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive shape changes without breaking or cracking. As a result, it could be processed and formed   at room temperature using standard sheet metal techniques, for example forming bends with a brake. For even 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 important, which should not be made from sheet metal. Please keep in mind PMMA/Plexiglas, which happens to be similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but it is brittle and cannot be bent at room temperature.
Polycarbonate is often found in eye protection, as well as in other projectile-resistant optical type applications that would normally require the use of glass, but require much higher impact-resistance. Many kinds of lenses are created from polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety goggles for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are typically constructed from polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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