Lexan Polycarbonate Sheeting offering light weight and break resistance

Polycarbonate products offer a great blend of helpful features this includes temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates in between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastic materials.
Polycarbonate is definitely a durable material. Although it features extraordinary impact-resistance, it's got low scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating typically is applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses lenses and polycarbonate exterior motor vehicle components. The characteristics relating to polycarbonate are similar to those of Acrylic PMMA materials, and yet polycarbonate definitely is 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 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 almost all other thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo dramatic shape changes without cracking or breaking. For this reason, it is sometimes processed and formed   cold using sheet metal techniques, such as 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 important, which may not be made from sheet metal. Keep in mind that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is certainly similar in looks to polycarbonate, but is brittle and cannot be bent with out a heating process.

The light weight of polycarbonate, in contrast to glass, has led to advancement of electronic display screens that replace the traditional glass with polycarbonate, for use in mobile and portable devices. Such displays include newer e-ink and several LCD screens, though CRT, plasma screen and other LCD technologies generally still require glass for its higher melting temperature and the ability to be etched with finer detail.
Other kinds of items made from Polycarbonate include durable, lightweight luggage, MP3/digital audio player cases, computer cases, high impact riot shields, instrument panels, and common style blender jars. Many toys and hobby products are constructed 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 perhaps the coextrusion for enhanced weathering resistance.
The Makrolon Polycarbonate is a thermoplastic that begins as a solid material in the form of small pellets. In a manufacturing process called injection molding, these small pellets are heated until they melt and become a very thick liquid. The melted liquid polycarbonate is then rapidly pushed into molds, compressed under high pressure and cooled to form a finished product , all in just a minute or so.

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