Polycarbonate Tubes and Profiles
Polycarbonate (PC) is a lightweight, durable, impact resistant and flame retardant thermoplastic. This transparent or opaque plastic has an excellent balance of clarity and toughness, which combined with the above characteristics, enables it to satisfy many high-performance demands. Valued for its adaptability, Polycarbonate can be extruded in a variety of sizes both clear and in colors.
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Pexco works hard to live up to its proud reputation of being a reliable source for the production of Polycarbonate tubing and profiles. Our technicians are highly trained to produce quality Polycarbonate tubing products, and take pride in being involved with some of the most challenging projects in the world.
Features and Benefits
- Colors: Clear, tinted, transparent, custom colors
- Secondary Operations: cut lengths, fabrication, bending
- Very high impact and tear resistance
- Great optical clarity but lighter than glass
- High heat resistance
- Excellent resistance to electricity
- Excellent resistance to water
- Resists impact deformation very well, relative to other plastics
- Very pliable – can be fabricated, formed and bent
- Available in FDA grades
Polycarbonate Expertise
Pexco has built a reputation as THE extrusion expert when it comes to polycarbonate (PC) materials. Our customers choose PC when superior durability and toughness is required, or when UL requires a flammability rating of V-2, V-1, V-0 or even 5VA. We see PC used in commercial lighting fixtures used in environments such as high moisture, high risk of vandalism, outdoor, gymnasium, sports arenas, and more.
Over the years Pexco has developed various PC blends ideal for these lighting applications. Formulations include various colors, UV resistance, and UL ratings. If you are considering PC for your next extruded product application, look no further than Pexco.
Technical Specifications
Our state-of-the-art facility and equipment produce high-quality Polycarbonate tubing. We are capable of producing Polycarbonate tubes with the following tolerances:
Polycarbonate Tubing Parameters:
- Diameters from 1/8″ to 8″ with standard or customized wall thicknesses
- Wall thickness from .015″ to heavy wall
- Plastic tubing can be produced from almost any thermoplastic
Polycarbonate Tubing Applications
- Bird feeders
- Novelty Items
- Shipping Tubes
- Medical Applications
- LED & Light Protective Covers
- ESD Circuit Board
- Connector Covers
- Industrial Applications
- Eyewear lenses
- Diffusers & light pipes for LED
- Golf cart windshields
- Bullet-proof glass
- Lighting fixture lenses
- Medical devices
- Automotive components
- Greenhouses and atriums
- Digital disks (CDs, DVDs, Blue-Rays)
- Protective Gear
- Covers for lighted highway signs
- Clear packaging tubes for consumer products
- Microwave ovens
- Cell phone cases
The above is just a partial list of the many uses for extruded Polycarbonate Tubes in products that require a clear or opaque, rugged, and affordable Polycarbonate tube or profile.
Pexco’s success in the extrusion of top quality, high performance, tight tolerance Polycarbonate Tubes for over 40 years gives us confidence in our ability to meet and/or exceed even your toughest project requirements.
Polycarbonate Extrusion
Polycarbonate (PC) is a naturally transparent thermoplastic material, best known for its extremely high impact strength, high heat resistance and optical clarity.
Although this polymer is available in a variety of (translucent) colors, this plastic material allows for the internal transmission of light nearly in the same capacity as glass.
Pexco is a manufacturer of PC parts across a variety of market applications, most notably for Lighting.
Polycarbonate is a Copolymer
Polycarbonate is a copolymer, in that it is composed of several different monomer types in combination with one another. These polymers are used to produce a variety of products and are particularly useful when impact resistance and/or transparency are a product requirement (as with bullet-proof glass). A lighter alternative to glass as well as a natural UV filter. PC is commonly used for plastic lenses in lighting fixtures, eyewear, automotive components, protective gear, greenhouses, and digital disks (CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray).
This polymer is very pliable and can typically be formed at room temperature without cracking or breaking – similar to aluminum sheet metal. Although deformation may be simpler with the application of heat, small angle bends are possible without heat. PC also has very good heat resistance and can be combined with flame retardant materials without significant material degradation.