Sheffield Plastics Polycarbonate Flat Sheet offer high impact strength

Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate products offer a unique balance of helpful features including high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastics and engineering plastic materials.
Polycarbonate is a very rugged material. Whilst it features outstanding impact-resistance, it's got reduced scratch-resistance and so a hard coating can be applied to polycarbonate eye protection lenses as well as polycarbonate exterior vehicle components. The characteristics relating to polycarbonate are along the lines of those of Acrylic PMMA materials, except 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 has better light transmission characteristics than several types of glass.
Polycarbonate carries a glass transition temperature near 150 °C (302 °F), in order that 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) in order to make strain- and stress-free products.
Unlike many thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo dramatic shape changes without cracking or breaking. Due to this fact, it is sometimes 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 generally necessary. This makes it useful for prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are necessary, which may not be created from sheet metal. Please keep in mind PMMA/Plexiglas, which happens to be similar in looks to polycarbonate, but it is brittle and can't be bent with out a heating process.

The light weight of polycarbonate, compared with glass, has led to growth and development of electronic view screens that replace glass materials with polycarbonate, for use in mobile and portable devices. Such displays include newer e-ink and a few LCD screens, though CRT, plasma screen and other LCD technologies generally still require glass for its higher melting temperature and its ability to be etched with finer detail.
Other kinds of items manufactured 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 of polycarbonate parts, e.g. fins, gyro mounts, and flybar locks for use with radio-controlled helicopters.
For use in applications exposed to weathering or UV-radiation, a special surface treatment is needed. This 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 at the beginning, starts as a solid plastic material in the form of small pellets. In a manufacturing process called injection molding, the pellets are heated until they melt and become a very thick liquid. The liquid polycarbonate is then rapidly injected into the mold - shaped like the part, compressed under high pressure and cooled to produce a finished product in less than a minute.


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