LED lighting solutions – tailored polycarbonate products for innovation
Key benefits
- Specialized: Individual materials for a wide variety of applications in optics, lenses, luminaires and heat sinks.
- Glass-like transparency: Highest light transmission capability, more design freedom, and much lighter than glass.
- Long-term stable: Optimized products for exposure over long periods (significantly reduced "yellowing").
- Ultra-tough: Strong Impact and break-resistance even at low temperatures.
- Ease of use: Excellent processing properties due to individual products for injection molding and extrusion.
Our Makrolon® LED product range
Our wide range of Makrolon® products meet the needs of luminaire manufacturers when it comes to creating energy-efficient lighting solutions that are both sustainable and effective.
Depending on the application, this requires high lumen efficiency per watt, light guiding or thermal conductive properties, flame retardancy, or a multifunctional design.
The Covestro portfolio includes transparent, translucent, reflective white, light blocking, thermal conductive, and flame- retardant grades:
• Makrolon® LED: Upmost transmission (> 90%) to improve efficacy for transparent luminaire covers, lenses, light guides, or other optics.
• Makrolon® DQ: Three levels of translucency with maximum transmission, offering individually suitable opacity for your luminaires.
• Makrolon® RW: Ideal surface for reflectors in aesthetic white with up to 97% diffuse reflection in all directions. Easy for the eyes without glare and available as a light- blocking variant to avoid light leakage.
• Makrolon® TC: Maximized thermal conductivity for plastic solutions, e. Enabling the replacement of metals in heat sinks with less weight, more design freedom, and an energy- efficient production.
• Makrolon® FR: Flame retardant variants of LED, DQ, RW, and TC products for high demands on light and safety .
Special solutions also for high requirements in rail, air or other public transportation applications.
Makrolon® RE in the lighting industry
Sustainability is a central aspect of Covestro's strategy. Our polycarbonate solutions for lighting applications enable energy-efficient and long-term stable systems with significantly lower weight than glass or aluminum products. In addition, alongside fossil-based production, our core products are also available as Makrolon® RE grades. These are manufactured using raw materials from ISCC Plus certified mass-balanced biowaste and residual materials, as well as renewable energy, and enable significant CO2 savings.
Build your individual lighting solution with our LED Product Finder
Makrolon® polycarbonates offer a bunch great deal of diverse lighting solutions for more efficiency and design freedom. Take a deep dive into our efficient and sustainable lighting portfolio to learn more about our transparent, diffuse quality, reflective white, thermal conductive, and flame- retardant products.
Use our LED Product Finder to obtain detailed information on the Makrolon® types in the individual product categories:
