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Far beyond the simple glass that you see in your drinks bottles, recent years have seen incredible innovations in glass varieties. These include new varieties, which boast remarkable special properties.
Toughened glass is a great example of these modern highly specialist types of glass.
But what makes toughened glass so remarkable? How tough actually is it? And what can toughened glass be used for?
Below, our experts have shared their answers to some of your most common FAQs.
Toughened Glass – also known as tempered glass – is up to five times stronger than regular glass.
This type of safety glass is produced by taking annealed glass and cutting it into the required shape. Then, it is taken through a thermal tempering process. This process follows a series of thermal and chemical treatments, which give the glass its key properties.
The process works by heating and rapidly cooling the outer surface of the glass. This compresses the glass’ outer surface, thereby giving it an extremely high compressive strength.
At the same time, the inner layer of the glass remains hot, keeping it in a state of tension.
Toughened glass is available in a range of different types, with each one designed to cater to a specific industry or use purpose. These types include:
Reflective toughened glass
Tinted toughened glass
Frosted toughened glass
Laminated toughened glass
Toughened glass is also available in single, double or triple glazed units.
Thanks to its extreme strength, toughened glass gives property owners a wide range of benefits. These include (but aren’t limited to):
As its name suggests, toughened glass is extremely strong. It is one of the most durable, weather-resistant and impact-resistant types of glass in existence.
Toughened glass has the ability to withstand direct sunlight, and both extreme cold and heat.
When it breaks (which is extremely rare), toughened glass breaks into small chunks with blunt edges. As a result, the breakage of toughened glass is far less likely to cause an injury.
Thermal glass offers this remarkable strength in a very lightweight product, making it ideally suited for large buildings, even skyscrapers.
Toughened glass can be used for a wide range of rooms, building types and use cases. We’ll cover more on this below.
Design range
Toughened glass is available in a wide range of different styles, colours, patterns and sizes. This allows you to choose a glass product that perfectly adheres to your home’s existing aesthetic, while also giving you access to all these other benefits.
All of these impressive properties make toughened glass ideally suited to a vast array of different building types and features.
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Toughened glass is commonly used for:
Windows in domestic properties
Windows and glass fronts for skyscrapers
Front doors
Balconies
Glass facades
Partition walls
Exhibition areas
Toughened glass is used in both domestic, commercial and industrial buildings alike, spanning everything from the windows of small properties, to glass fronts in luxurious hotels.
You will need to look for a printed kitemark in the corners of the glass, this identifies the type.
Whatever your requirements, size or scope, Stevenage Glass has the capability and industry knowledge to provide toughened glass that meets all of your expectations.
If you would like to find out more about the advantages of toughened glass, or to enlist our services for your upcoming project, don’t hesitate to contact our team for a quote.
Lets go back…
Toughened glass, or commonly known as tempered glass, was invented back in the 17th century (1) during an experiment. A piece of molten glass was dropped into cold water and consequently resulted in extremely hard glass. It was then in the 1930’s that companies began producing large quantities of toughened glass (2) and started to understand the value of this process.
But what exactly is toughened glass?
Great Question. Toughened glass is a form of safety glass. Certain steps are taken, such as tempering float glass followed by rapid cooling to add this additional safety element. Toughened glass is most commonly used in doors, windows, showers, and balustrades. However, it can also be found in automobiles, glass roofing and escalators (3).
Did you hear the joke about smashed glass? It wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
One of the main benefits of toughened glass is that by adding this additional feature, if broken the glass will smash into smaller pieces (very similar to smashed ice). It also makes the glass up to 4 times stronger than float glass (4). Although, there is never a 100% guarantee that glass won’t smash, this toughened process does add a little piece of mind to customers.
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Wait, have we mentioned… laminated glass was invented by accident? That’s a blog post for another time…
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