Covestro Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheets offer high impact strength

Polycarbonate products have a balance of helpful features which include high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastics and engineering plastics.
Polycarbonate is a very sturdy material. Whilst it offers increased impact-resistance, it's got a lower scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating is often applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses and polycarbonate exterior auto equipment. The characteristics relating to polycarbonate tend to be similar those of Acrylic PMMA materials, yet , polycarbonate 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 most grades of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature of around 150 °C (302 °F), as a result it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools must be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) in order to make strain- and almost stress free products.
Unlike most thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive deformations without cracking or breaking. Because of this, for small changes in shape, it can be processed and formed   without needing to be heated using 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 valuable in prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are crucial, which cannot be produced from sheet metal. Remember that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but is brittle and can't be bent at room temperature.
Polycarbonate is often used in eye protection, as well as in other projectile-resistant see through applications that would normally be thought of as requiring the use of glass, but require much higher impact-resistance. Many different types of lenses are created from polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety glasses for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are typically made from polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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