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Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate products offer a unique balance of helpful features including temp resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering materials.
Polycarbonate is definitely a long-lasting material. Whilst it offers higher impact-resistance, it's got low scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating could be applied to polycarbonate eye protection lenses and polycarbonate exterior automotive components. The characteristics of polycarbonate are similar to that 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 many different types of glass.
Polycarbonate has 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 will have to be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to make strain- and almost stress free products.
Unlike most thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo dramatic shape changes without cracking or breaking. For that reason, it can be processed and formed   without needing to be heated using sheet metal techniques, for instance forming bends with a brake. For even sharp angle bends having a tight radius, no heating is generally necessary. This makes it valuable in prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are required, which can't be created from sheet metal. Remember that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is certainly similar in looks to polycarbonate, but it is brittle and cannot be bent at room temperature.

The light weight of polycarbonate, unlike glass, has led to continuing development of electronic display screens that replace glass materials with polycarbonate, for use in mobile and portable devices. Such displays include newer e-ink and some 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 with 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 blender jars. Many toys and hobby products are made 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 is needed. This can be a coating (e.g. for improved abrasion resistance), or as a coextrusion for enhanced weathering resistance.
Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate is a thermoplastic that starts as a solid plastic material in the form of small pellets. In a manufacturing process called injection molding, this pellet material is heated until they melt. This liquid polycarbonate is then rapidly injected into the mold - shaped like the part, compressed under high pressure and cooled to form a finished product , all in just a minute or so.

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