Shipa tempered Safety Glass is suitable for application where greater strength and safety are required.
Shipa Tempered Glass is being used increasingly in architecture because of its strength and safety properties. It is usually installed in areas where safety glass is required to lessen the pssibility of mechanical or thermal breakage and/ or to assure greater uniform load strength. Glass is tempered by taking annealed glass and heating it to softening point of approximately 660 C. Its structure is then rapidly cooled while the inner core is allowed to cool gradually. This results is layer of high compression on the surface counter balancing by high tension at the center resulting in a glass that is four to five times stronger than annealed glass. Should accidental breakage occur, the resulting fragments are smaller and granular, causing minimum injury. |
