Sheffield Plastics Polycarbonate Sheets offer high impact strength
Polycarbonate materials give you a great blend of helpful features which include temp resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastics and engineering materials. Polycarbonate is a very sturdy material. Though it offers higher impact-resistance, it has low scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating is often applied to polycarbonate eyewear and polycarbonate exterior automotive components. The characteristics relating to polycarbonate tend to be similar to that of those of Acrylic PMMA 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 has better light transmission characteristics than several types of glass. Polycarbonate carries a glass transition temperature of around 150 °C (302 °F), so it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools must be held at highe...