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For customer information, Desert Glass Products has compiled detailed information for choosing the correct advanced architectural glass for your architectural projects.
Tempered Glass: Offers double to triple the resistance to thermal shock, as does a piece of untempered glass and if it should break it will shatter into small pieces upon impact. Tempered glass offers the perfect solution for your general and safety glazing projects such as sliding doors, building entrances, and interior partitions where superior strength and safety are concerns.
Laminated Glass: Consists of two or more lites permanently bonded by heat and pressure with one or more interlayers of vinyl. You can choose from many colors and various thicknesses for both the glass lites and the vinyl. While laminated glass can be broken, the inner vinyl layer keeps it from shattering into pieces and it will stay intact. Laminated glass is useful in safety applications since it reduces the risk of laceration and glass fallout and continues to offer protection even if broken.
Insulated Glass: Consists of two or more layers of glass, which are sealed together with air or gas between the two layers. This creates a highly efficient thermal unit that removes humidity from the air when the edges are later sealed and enhances thermal performance by reducing the amount of heat loss. Gas filled insulated glass also enhances sound control. The outcome is a superior glass that optimizes solar and energy efficiency, making it perfect for commercial office buildings, hospitals, educational institutions, and windows and skylights.
Soft Coat Low-E (Emissivity) Products: Also known as sputter coating, it is applied to glass in multiple layers of transparent silver inserted between layers of metal oxide. The nearly invisible coating allows short-wave energy to pass through it while reflecting long-wave infrared energy, which improves the rate of heat loss or U-value. Soft Coat Low-E glass is widely used in residential and commercial buildings.
Spandrel Glass: Is manufactured by a roll coating process in which ceramic frit is rolled onto the surface of glass and then fired to create a permanent coating. The process increases the mechanical strength of the glass allowing it to withstand the stress of solar heat absorption without breaking. Spandrel glass is often given an opaque coating to conceal from view the structural areas of buildings such as between floors and columns.
Mirror Products: Is made from high-quality annealed flat glass and offered in a wide range of standard thicknesses and sheet sizes.
Flat Glass Products: Is primarily formed by the float method producing glass with extremely flat, parallel surfaces. It can be cut into large standard sheets or cut-to-size according to its ultimate usage. Decorative designs can be reproduced on the glass and used for resident or commercial application.
Laminated Glass: Consists of two or more lites (pieces) of glass permanently bonded together with one or more plastic interlayers (PVB) using heat and pressure. The glass and interlayers can be had in a variety of colors and thicknesses designed to meet building code standards and requirements as necessary. Laminated glass can be broken, but the fragments will tend to adhere to the plastic layer and remain largely intact, reducing the risk of injury. Laminated glass is considered "safety glass" and meets the requirements of the various code organizations that set standards for safety. Heat-strengthened and tempered glass can be incorporated into laminated glass units to further strengthen the impact resistance.
Shower & Flat Glass Hardware: Come in a variety of decorative and functional products. For showers there are door hinges, pulls and handle sets, towel bars, shower panels, support bars and bracket. Flat glass hardware for architectural needs include items such as patch hardware, brackets swivel fittings, sidelite rails, headers, u-channels, deadbolt and panic handles all created in finishes to enhance the surrounding environs.
Specialty Glass: Is created during the float glass manufacturing process, the ribbon can be altered by passing through a roll or rollers. This creates a textured surface that provides a decorative and/or obscured glass surface. Specialty glass can also be color coated in a variety of tints.
Glass Substrates: Made with flat glass that comes in a variety of colors or tints and also clear or ultra-clear. Often incorporated into insulated glass units as an architectural requirement.
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