Laminated glass can incorporate high-performance and dynamic glass products in a home or office window application to also offer significant energy savings, reduced outdoor noise, and lower ultraviolet light carpet-fading.
Laminated glass is a type of safety glass made by applying heat and pressure on two or more layers of heat-resistant or tempered glass separated by an interlayer — typically polyvinyl butyral (PVB). The interlayer works to hold the fragments of glass together if they hit with an impact that would normally shatter them like wind storms, bomb blasts, bullets, and forced entry.
Benefits
Perhaps the laminated glass is not always appreciated for its full range of benefits given the number of conversations we have on the subject. We being laminated glass manufacturers in Kenya, offer the safest glass for multiple uses. Glass being used more and more as an important component of exterior envelope architectural design. The trend does not seem to change in the near future.
Safety
Ordinary glass windows are brittle, breaking into sharp long pieces, causing severe and sometimes fatal injuries. The performance under impact is an important feature of laminated glass. That is, because laminated glass interlayers are capable of absorbing impact energy and resisting penetration. With the use of laminated glass, safety hazards caused by breakages are minimized. Although the glass may break, the glass fragments adhere to the interlayer of plastic, minimizing the risk of injury and damage to property.
High Security
Security and peace of mind are separate advantages and the use of laminated glass can enhance both. With a suitable thickness of PVB interlayer, laminated glass can withstand repeated hammer blows for an extended period of time without the glass actually coming out of the window. This saves time to alert the authorities to the home security system.
Sound
Laminated glass has proved to be an outstanding noise barrier. It has a higher sound reduction index between the 125Hz and 4,000Hz frequencies than monolithic glass of equal thickness. The PVB’s shear damping efficiency makes laminated glass an efficient product for sound control. This sound dampening is due to the PVB interlayer’s low elastic property, which makes it ideal for airports, hotels, hospitals data processing centers or recording studios etc.
Applications
Along with its numerous benefits and the look it provides to your interior, laminated glass is used in various applications.
Architectural
Laminated glass offers durability, high performance and multi-functional advantages while preserving the appearance of aesthetic glass. Laminated glass provides a solution to many architectural design issues and, if properly designed, offers enhanced protection from the impacts of disasters such as hurricanes, earthquake and bomb blasts.
Interiors
For the glass industry, interior applications are becoming increasingly important. Figures claim that for interiors, nearly a quarter of all laminated safety glass is used. The combination of glossy and matte glass surfaces in matching colors enhances interior walls and furniture design choices.
Bullet Resistant Glasses
Laminated glasses are used, mostly because of its bullet proof quality, In general, bullet-proof glass is used in banks, public buildings, convenience stores, liquor shops, jewelry shops, post offices, churches and schools to safeguard staff and high-value items. It has other uses, including the protection of vehicles and units of transport.
Vanceva
Colored Laminated Glass is the only glass that has durability, high performance and multi-functional benefits while the aesthetic appearance of the glass stays intact. The color layer system Vanceva can create a wide variety of colors and moods. Vanceva glass is particularly suitable for use in windows, atriums, skylights, partitions and conference rooms. The designs are beautiful and expressive, with distinctive hues that vary from subtle to extreme. The colored film layers of Vanceva glass are based on red, yellow, and blue, black and white and can be combined up to four layers.
Glass Flooring
What’s not to love about glass flooring with a sleek, stylish, and modern look? Few design characteristics are as striking or impressive as glass flooring – and the additional light flooding through a glass floor can turn a room into an open, airy space.
Glass flooring is almost always obtained in one type or another of laminated glass. This will often be either heat-resistant laminated glass or toughened laminated glass, because laminated glasses aren’t as difficult to install as you might think, and they can transmit light through different levels of structure and can be engineered to fit just about any space.
Skylights for Atriums/Canopies
Add a touch of digital printed design for a unique aesthetic design.
Staircases and Balustrades
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Sliding Doors
Features
Maximum Sheet Size 3M⨯2M
Thickness from 6.38mm-60mm