Sheffield Plastics Polycarbonate Sheets offer high impact strength

Bayer Makrolon Polycarbonate materials give you a great blend of beneficial features this includes high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates in between commodity plastics and engineering materials.
Polycarbonate is a very sturdy material. Though it offers increased impact-resistance, it's got a lower scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating typically is applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses as well as polycarbonate exterior automobile equipment. The characteristics of polycarbonate tend to be similar those of common Acrylic 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 many kinds of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature of about 150 °C (302 °F), therefore 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 produce strain- and almost stress free products.
Unlike most other thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo large changes in basic shape without cracking. Because of this, it may be processed and formed   without needing to be heated using sheet metal techniques, for instance forming bends with a brake. Even for sharp angle bends with a tight radius, no heating is usually necessary. This makes it useful for prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are necessary, which cannot be made from sheet metal. Remember that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is similar in looks to polycarbonate, but is brittle and cannot be bent without heating.
Polycarbonate is frequently used in eye protection, and also in other projectile-resistant see through applications that would normally be thought of as requiring the use of glass, but require higher impact-resistance. Many kinds of lenses are created from 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 constructed from polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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