Bayer MaterialScience offers a unique combination of polycarbonate and polycarbonate blends engineering resins, processing technologies and engineering capabilities to help you meet your design goals for passenger vehicles. Our proven products are used in a long list of automotive applications.
Thus, Makrolon® and Apec® are applied in electrical systems, interior lighting and headlamps, front and rear systems. Apec® supplements our Makrolon® range for parts that are exposed to high temperatures.
Bayer MaterialScience´s blends are especially popular in automotive applications which require a high level of safety. Typical Bayblend® car interior applications are e.g. airbag covers. Other products made of Bayblend® include instrument panel supports with add-on supplements, ventilation nozzles, post finishers, consoles and glove compartments, as well as metallized trim and emblems and radiator grilles.
Makroblend® is used in the automotive industry to manufacture exterior body parts, radiator grilles and bumpers.
Especially, freedom of design, significant weight reduction, and the possibility of component integration are advantages in using Makrolon® and the blends for glazing applications.

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AutoCreative™ is an initiative to establish Bayer MaterialScience, on a global basis, as the leading development partner and supplier of the automotive industry. By working with the AutoCreative™ team, customers are able to efficiently leverage the wide range of advanced products and technologies – from polyurethanes and polycarbonates, to thermoplastic polyurethanes and coatings, adhesives and sealants – offered by Bayer MaterialScience for a number of interior and exterior automotive applications. Visit the AutoCreative™ Web Site.

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