Single Toughened Safety Glass

Toughened glass production is carried out in house using a bespoke Tamglass Furnace specifically designed for our company.

Single toughened safety glass is up to five times stronger than ordinary glass of the same thickness. Because of its increased strength, our single toughened safety glass allows architects and builders far greater scope in their use of glass in buildings. It meets world-wide safety standards for glass subjected to accidental human impact at the highest level of severity. Wherever the benefits of ordinary glass need to be combined with extra strength, safety or heat resistance, single toughened safety glass can offer a complete and proven solution.

Single toughened safety glass is available in heat soaked form for those applications where a reduction in the risk of spontaneous fracture is advantageous, such as structural applications, barriers and roof glazing.

Single toughened safety glass is manufactured by subjecting final size, edgeworked panes of glass to a heating and cooling treatment whereby high compressive stresses are set up at the surfaces with balancing tensile stresses in the centre. The high compressive surface stresses give the single toughened safety glass its increased strength.

Benefits

Offers a complete and proven solution for impact safety and strength;

• Based on over 60 years of worldwide manufacturing experience.
• Up to 5 times stronger than ordinary glass of the same thickness.
• Conforms to the requirements of BS 6206: 1981 Class A as well as European Standard BS EN 12600 and many worldwide safety standards.
• Because of its increased strength, single toughened safety glass allows architects and builders far greater scope in their use of glass in buildings.
• Single toughened safety glass is heat soaked for extra confidence in use.
• Ideal for use in countless applications, from windows to barriers, interior design, curtain walling etc.
• When broken, single toughened safety glass shatters into small, blunt-edged fragments which reduce the risk of personal injury.
• Solar Control Glass should be used in toughened form or heat strengthened to ensure they do not suffer from thermal stress breakage by exposure to solar radiation.

A wide range of design options is available as almost all the products in our range can be supplied in toughened form.

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