Application
Lighting & LED: Specialized polycarbonates and elastomers for every application
We offer a comprehensive polycarbonate and elastomer portfolio, which lets us partner you in realizing the full potential of your LED and other lighting requirements with a tailored solution - be it for LED encapsulation, lenses, diffusers, reflectors, heat sinks, luminaires or other lighting components.
Featured Brands
- Apec®
- Heat-resistant thermoplastic for automotive, lighting, and medical technologies
- Baytec®
- A variety of polyurethane elastomers for different processes
- Desmodur®
- Polyisocyanates for a wide range of PU foams, coatings and adhesives
- Makrolon®
- High-performance polycarbonate for applications in diverse industries.
Key benefits
- Specialized: We offer specific materials for aliphatic-based systems, optics, lenses & luminaires.
- Glass-like transparency: High light transmission across the visual spectrum.
- Ultra-tough: Strong Impact and break-resistance even at low temperatures.
- Dimensionally stable: Offers high reproduction accuracy.
- Ease of use: Materials are well-suited to injection molding and extrusion.
Our broad range of Makrolon® and Apec® polycarbonates addresses the needs of luminaire manufactures when it comes to creating energy-efficient illumination that is both sustainable and effective. This demands high lumen efficiency per watt, high flame-retardance, light guiding qualities, and the ability to create multi-functional parts that reduce the complexity and costs of luminaires. Our plastics also:
• Provide glass-like high light transparency (> 90%)
• Diffuse concentrated LED beams
• Shape and guide light to enhance optics performance
• Create reflective surfaces
LED lighting design is further enhanced by elastomers, such as Desmodur® or Baytec®, which allow freedom of design in LED encapsulation, particularly in aliphatic-based systems with high exposure to UV light, e.g.: highway & street lighting.
• Provide glass-like high light transparency (> 90%)
• Diffuse concentrated LED beams
• Shape and guide light to enhance optics performance
• Create reflective surfaces
LED lighting design is further enhanced by elastomers, such as Desmodur® or Baytec®, which allow freedom of design in LED encapsulation, particularly in aliphatic-based systems with high exposure to UV light, e.g.: highway & street lighting.
