Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheets offer high impact strength

Polycarbonate plastic products give you a unique balance of useful features this includes temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastic materials.
Polycarbonate is a very tough material. Though it offers extraordinary impact-resistance, it has lower scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating may be applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses as well as polycarbonate exterior automotive components. The properties of polycarbonate are along the lines of those of common Acrylic materials, and yet polycarbonate is definitely 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), in order that it softens gradually above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools will have to be held at higher temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) in order to make strain- and almost stress free products.
Unlike many thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo large changes in basic shape without cracking or breaking. Because of this, it could be processed and formed   cold using standard sheet metal techniques, which include 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 cannot be created from sheet metal. Understand that PMMA/Plexiglas, which is similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but it is brittle and can't be bent unless it is heated.
Polycarbonate is often utilized 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 higher impact-resistance. Several types of lenses are produced 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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