Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate Flat Sheet offering light weight and break resistance

Polycarbonate products give you a balance of useful features which include temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastics and engineering plastics.
Polycarbonate is definitely a high quality material. Even though it offers increased impact-resistance, it has got reduced scratch-resistance and so a hard coating can be applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses and polycarbonate exterior auto components. The properties of polycarbonate tend to be along the lines of those of common Acrylic materials, but polycarbonate is always 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 several types of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature of around 150 °C (302 °F), therefore it softens gradually above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools need to be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to help make strain- and almost stress free products.
Unlike almost all other thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive changes in basic shape without cracking or breaking. Because of this, it could be processed and formed   without needing to be heated using standard sheet metal techniques, for instance forming bends with a brake. For even 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 crucial, which can't be produced from sheet metal. Note that PMMA/Plexiglas, which is similar in looks to polycarbonate, but is brittle and can't be bent at room temperature.
Polycarbonate is frequently used in eye protection, along with other projectile-resistant viewing and lighting applications that would normally be thought of as requiring the use of glass, but require higher impact-resistance. Several types of lenses are produced 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 typically fabricated from polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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