Makroclear

Makroclear is a brand of solid polycarbonate plastic sheet ranging from 0.75 to 15 mm thickness. Polycarbonate is seen as the toughest transparent material. It is extruded by Arla Plast AB in Borensberg, Sweden, who were the first in Europe to coextrude a thin layer of highly UV-stabilised polycarbonate onto polycarbonate sheet to enhance weathering resistance, by reducing the ageing effects such as yellowing, loss of light transmission, loss of impact resistance and loss of gloss. This UV-protected product is marketed as Makrolife since 1989.

Applications

These sheet as such, or in fabricated and/or thermoformed form are also used in:

• Racing cars to replace heavier fragile glass windshields and windows
• Greenhouses
• Radio-controlled car bodies
• aerospace industry for canopies, windscreens and other windows
• Motorcycle goggles
• Hockey rink glazing
• Riot shields and the visors of Riot helmets
• Visor in fencing masks, and in many industrial safety shields and masks
• Machine glazing
• dome lights, flat and cold curved glazings
• Sound walls (noise screens) along highways and railroads
• Advertisement and signage
• Pallets
• Automotive interior parts
• Bullet-resistant glazing

External links

• Arla Plast AB