Covestro Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheets offer high impact strength

Makrolon Polycarbonate products give you a unique balance of useful features this includes high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastics.
Polycarbonate is definitely a long-lasting material. Whilst it has significant impact-resistance, it's got reduced scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating is often applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses as well as polycarbonate exterior automobile equipment. The characteristics associated with polycarbonate are along the lines of those of Acrylic PMMA materials, but 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 has better light transmission characteristics than several types of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature of around 150 °C (302 °F), consequently it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools should be held at higher temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to make strain- and stress-free products.
Unlike almost all other thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo large shape changes without breaking or cracking. Because of this, it can be processed and formed   at room temperature using standard sheet metal techniques, for instance forming bends with a brake. For even sharp angle bends having 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 created from sheet metal. Understand that PMMA/Plexiglas, which is similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but it is brittle and cannot be bent at room temperature.
Polycarbonate is commonly found in eye protection, and also in other projectile-resistant viewing and lighting applications that would normally be thought of as requiring the use of glass, but require greater impact-resistance. Several types of lenses are manufactured from polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety visors 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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