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New Bayer MaterialScience LLC brochure shines a light on innovative materials for burgeoning LED market

Polycarbonate resins play key role in demanding, high-brightness LED applications

April 28, 2009

Pittsburgh, April 28, 2009 — Bayer MaterialScience LLC, a leading LED (light emitting diode) materials supplier, has published an eye-catching brochure that features the company's materials solutions for LED applications. The brochure highlights the advantages of Bayer MaterialScience's materials for LEDs and includes information on new grades of polycarbonate and polycarbonate blend resins designed especially for this burgeoning market. These materials have been optimized for use in LED optics, covers, lenses, reflectors, housings and enclosures.

LED lights are becoming increasingly popular because of the many cost-effective and energy-efficient advantages they offer over incandescent bulbs. In addition to their low energy consumption, LEDs offer an average lifecycle of 50,000 hours, which translates into low maintenance and replacement costs. Furthermore, LEDs generate minimal heat, reducing unwanted heating of interior space, and their precise directional focus reduces light pollution.

"LED lighting is nearly everywhere – in commercial, industrial and residential applications. Bayer MaterialScience is proud to be a leader in this emerging area, offering a portfolio of innovative polycarbonate resins specifically engineered for LED lighting," said John Skabardonis, polycarbonates marketing manager for North America, Bayer MaterialScience LLC. "We developed our LED brochure so that designers and engineers can easily recognize how our materials meet the unique challenges of their applications."

Bayer MaterialScience's LED brochure highlights its polycarbonate and polycarbonate blend resins' features for LED applications, such as higher light transmission, improved luminous flux and flame resistance. In addition to pointing out specific applications like lenses/covers, housings and enclosures, and thin-wall applications, the brochure also highlights materials for highly reflective surfaces, materials containing post-consumer recycled content and bio-content resins, among others.

"Customers looking for a plastics solution for their LED application can be confident that Bayer MaterialScience has the right materials for their needs," said Gerry DiBattista, market segment leader Electrical/Electronics, IT, Bayer MaterialScience LLC.

For a copy of the brochure, please call 1-800-662-2927 or visit www.bayermaterialscienceNAFTA.com.

Bayer MaterialScience LLC is one of the leading producers of polymers and high-performance plastics in North America and is part of the global Bayer MaterialScience business with nearly 15,100 employees at 30 sites around the world and 2008 sales of 9.7 billion euros. Business activities are focused on the manufacture of high-tech polymer materials and the development of innovative solutions for products used in many areas of daily life. The main segments served are the automotive, electrical and electronics, construction, medical, and sports and leisure industries.

Bayer Corporation, headquartered in Pittsburgh, is a subsidiary of Bayer AG, an international health care, nutrition and high-tech materials group based in Leverkusen, Germany. In North America, Bayer had 2008 net sales of approximately 8 billion euros (about $12 billion) and employed 17,000 at year end. Bayer's three subgroups, Bayer HealthCare, Bayer CropScience and Bayer MaterialScience, improve people's lives through a broad range of essential products that help diagnose, prevent and treat diseases; protect crops and enhance yields; and advance automobile safety and durability. For more information, go to www.bayerus.com.

For more information about Bayer MaterialScience's Color Competence and Design Center, call 1-800-662-2927, e-mail naftainfo@bayerbms.com or visit www.bayermaterialsciencenafta.com.

For more information about Bayer MaterialScience's Fantasia® color and special effect technologies visit www.bayerfantasia.com.

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Contact:	Bill Allan
Tel:	412-777-5200
Company:	Bayer MaterialScience
e-mail:	bill.allan@bayerbms.com