Sheffield Plastics Polycarbonate Flat Sheet offer high impact strength

Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate products offer a balance of useful features this includes high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastic materials.
Polycarbonate is definitely a sturdy material. Although it has tremendous impact-resistance, it's got minimal scratch-resistance and so a hard coating typically is applied to polycarbonate eye protection and polycarbonate exterior automobile equipment. The properties of polycarbonate are generally along the lines of those of Acrylic PMMA materials, except polycarbonate is going to be 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 has a glass transition temperature near 150 °C (302 °F), therefore it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools should be held at high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to help make strain- and reduced stress products.
Unlike most thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo dramatic shape changes without cracking. As a result, it can be processed and formed   at room temperature using standard sheet metal techniques, for example forming bends with a brake. For even sharp angle bends with a tight radius, no heating is usually necessary. This makes it attractive prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are required, which cannot be created from sheet metal. Keep in mind that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is similar in appearance to polycarbonate, but it's brittle and cannot be bent with out a heating process.
Polycarbonate is frequently used in eye protection, in addition to 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 made of polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety goggles for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are normally produced from polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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