Chief fields of application
| Electronics/ electrical engineering: | consumer electronics, telecommunications, business machines, installation engineering, lighting engineering, household appliances |
| Construction industry: | solid sheet, twin-wall sheet, corrugated sheet |
| Optical systems: | spectacles, lenses, housing components |
| Optical data storage media: | compact discs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, CD-Rs, DVD-Rs |
| Lighting engineering: | lamps, lamp housings |
| Safety systems: | helmets, helmet visors, protective goggles, glazing |
| Traffic systems: | headlamps, rear lamps, automotive glazing, traffic light housings and lenses |
| Household: | housings for electrical appliances, tableware, re-usable packaging, containers, film, milk bottles, babies' bottles |
| Medical technology: | dialysers, oxygenators, laboratory supplies |
| Food sector: | chocolate moulds, crockery and containers for large kitchens/industry |
Range of grades :
The Makrolon range of grades has been designed to fulfil the many different specialist requirements encountered in its wide-ranging fields of application:
1. non-reinforced general-purpose polycarbonate (including for food contact
and medical applications)
2. non-reinforced polycarbonate with flame retardant
3. glass fibre reinforced polycarbonate with and without flame retardant
4. impact-modified polycarbonate
5. special grades for specific fields of application
trial products.