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Makrolon Polycarbonate products have a great blend of helpful features including high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastic materials.
Polycarbonate is definitely a long-lasting material. Whilst it offers exceptional impact-resistance, it possesses a lower scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating is applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses lenses and polycarbonate exterior automotive equipment. The properties relating to polycarbonate are generally similar to that of those of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA, acrylic), 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 it has better light transmission characteristics than several types of glass.
Polycarbonate carries a glass transition temperature of about 150 °C (302 °F), therefore it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools ought to be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) in order to make strain- and stress-free products.
Unlike most other thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo dramatic changes in basic shape without breaking or cracking. Therefore, it is sometimes processed and formed   without needing to be heated using standard sheet metal techniques, which include forming bends with a brake. For even sharp angle bends with a tight radius, no heating is usually necessary. This makes it attractive prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are necessary, which may not be made from sheet metal. Understand that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is certainly similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but it is brittle and cannot be bent with out a heating process.
Polycarbonate is commonly used in eye protection, along with other projectile-resistant optical type applications that would normally require the use of glass, but require higher impact-resistance. Many different types of lenses are made of 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 normally fabricated from polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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