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Lexan* Polycarbonate |
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Lexan* polycarbonate is a highly versatile material that offers unique properties for styling and design-driven challenges in today's highly competitive automotive market. These unique properties push the limits that currently exist, because of the shape and complexity limitations of glass and they open up previously impossible glazing solutions for OEMs. Styling departments of vehicle manufacturers can now consider different opening mechanisms for windows and doors, to name just a few.
SABIC Innovative Plastics features Lexan* GLX polycarbonate – specially developed for automotive glazing applications. Lexan* GLX polycarbonate features excellent moldability, high optical clarity, and weatherable colorants that can be combined to match a wide range of solar green and privacy tints. Lexan* GLX polycarbonate is compatible with the latest existing and in-development wetcoat and wetcoat + plasma coating systems
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| Infrared Absorbing Lexan Technology |
| The Lexan* GLX polycarbonate product line also offers Infrared (IR) Absorbing resin product technology. These grades absorb solar energy, and can be used to reduce the amount of heat load transmitted to the vehicle interior. |
| Lexan* polycarbonate is one approximately half the density as compared to glass – enabling light weight and fuel efficient vehicle designs. Vehicle glazing weight reductions of up to 50% can be achieved. |
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By replacing glass with polycarbonate glazing, up to 20 kg of weight reduction is possible on a vehicle |
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Vehicle weight reduction can translate to improved fuel economy and lower CO2 emissions |
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Reduced glazing weight can help to lower a vehicle’s center of gravity – improving the vehicle driving stability |
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Part integration through design offers additional weight savings by consolidating heavy separate secondary components into a single molded part |
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| Example weight savings through use of Lexan* Polycarbonate on a: |
Density of Glass: 2500 Kg/m3
Density of Polycarbonate: 1200 Kg/m3
Total savings of 38 lbs (17.3 Kg) |
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Dart impact of plasma coated Lexan polycarbonate (-20C, Ductile) |
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| Virtually unbreakable Lexan* polycarbonate with Exatec coatings technology offers high impact durability – as demonstrated by this high speed video of a 0.23 Kg (0.5 lb.) ball dropped from 17.6 m (58 feet) onto a 4 mm (0.16 in.) thick polycarbonate panel coated with the Exatec® E900 wetcoat + plasma system. |
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