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Makrolon® and Makrofol®
Design freedom for lighting.
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Bring your vision to light. with Makrolon® Lumen XT and Makrofol® LM translucent polycarbonate sheet and film
LEDs are transforming the world of lighting and offer new,
exciting design possibilities. But LED sources also pose
challenges when it comes to glare, hotspots, and light
uniformity which often requires the use of diffusion lenses.
As a recognized global leader in medical, automotive,
data storage, and construction applications,
Bayer MaterialScience now offers the latest in lighting
solutions with Makrolon® and Makrofol® translucent
polycarbonate sheet and film. Designed for LED lighting,
Makrolon Lumen XT and Makrofol LM sheet and film provide
a range of diffusion levels with optimized light transmission
– delivering unsurpassed quality and performance. Makrolon
sheet features higher impact strength than glass or acrylic,
and superior temperature resistance over acrylic. In addition,
Makrolon sheet can be formed into a variety of shapes tosatisfy your application and design needs. Makrolon sheet
and Makrofol film ultimately provide the technical design
freedom to maximize your light fixture’s performance and
maintain optimum aesthetics.
Makrolon® Lumen XT
translucent polycarbonate
sheet lights up your LED fixture
design creativity. Optimized
surface texture and advanced
diffuser technologies assure hot spots are eliminated and
shadowing is reduced.
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Makrolon® Lumen XT LW grades provide a
higher light transmission and a warmer hue to
accent your LEDs. Allowing you the flexibility
to design a fixture with appealing atmosphere.
This is accomplished without sacrificing the
material’s high performance as a diffusion
lens. In addition, Makrolon® Lumen XT sheets
have a UL listed flammability rating that is
higher than most competitive materials.
Makrolon® Lumen XT sheet comes in a wide
range of standard diffusion levels to meet
your needs when designing new LED fixtures
or retrofitting conversions to LEDs. Other
advantages include high impact resistance,
ability to cold form and line bend,
meet your needs for functionality.
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Makrofol ® LM 903 polycarbonate filmdelivers high reflectance with excellent
thermal performance. This film can be
thermoformed to produce various
reflector structures.
Artist Danial Nord chose Makrolon®
Lumen XT polycarbonate sheet and
Makrofol ® LM 903 polycarbonate film
from Bayer MaterialScience LLC to
bring his artistic vision to life in No
Exit (2013).
No Exit, 2013 by Danial Nord; installation of 2013 California-Pacific
Triennial at the Orange County
Museum of Art.
Photographs by Gene Ogami.
Computer-controlled LEDs, video
footage, sound system, steel, polycar-
bonate, mixed materials. 21´ x 15´ x 14´ 6˝
(dimensions variable). Danial Nord’s
artwork transforms the audiovisual
information of major Hollywood films,
via LED elements, into ghostly, quasi-
abstract bursts of color, light, and
sound within sculptural installations.
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Makrofol ® LM diffuser grades are
available in a range of diffusion levels
to meet a broad array of lighting
applications. These films offer high
temperature performance with
excellent transmittance.
Images courtesy of ©Oktalite.
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assistance and information (whether verbal, written or by way of production evaluations), including
any suggested formulations and recommendations are beyond our control. Therefore, it is
imperative that you test our products, technical assistance and information to determine to your
own satisfaction whether our products, technical assistance and information are suitable for your
intended uses and applications. This application-specific analysis must at least include testing to
determine suitability from a technical as well as health, safety, and environmental standpoint. Such
testing has not necessarily been done by us. Unless we otherwise agree in writing, all products are
sold strictly pursuant to the terms of our standard conditions of sale which are available upon
request. All information and technical assistance is given without warranty or guarantee and is
subject to change without notice. It is expressly understood and agreed that you assume and
hereby expressly release us from all liability, in tort, contract or otherwise, incurred in connection
with the use of our products, technical assistance, and information. Any statement or recommenda-
tion not contained herein is unauthorized and shall not bind us. Nothing herein shall be construed
as a recommendation to use any product in conflict with any claim of any patent relative to any
material or its use. No license is implied or in fact granted under the claims of any patent.
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