We use 10mm & 12mm Toughened glass
10mm maximum height 2700mm , 12mm maximum height 3000mm
Toughened glass is treated to be far more resistant to breakage than simple annealed glass and to break in a more predictable way should it break, thus providing a major safety advantage in most all of its applications.
Its main advantage, it has a structural strength five times that of standard annealed glass and is ideal for all applications that require the glass to be drilled and mechanically fixed. While it is not guaranteed unbreakable, it is a safety glass in that if it is broken, it explodes into small irregular shaped fragments. It is their size and weight and break pattern which reduces the risk of serious injury normally associated with broken glass. Toughened glass is produced by heating the glass to a temperature of approximately 700 deg C and then quickly blasting it with cold air to form a tough ‘skin' on the outside of the panel. It is this skin or stress on the glass surface which gives it its strength. |