Architectural Glass

Float glass is manufactured using a melt process, where recycled glass, silica sand, lime, potash and soda are melted in a furnace and floated onto a bed of molten tin.

The molten mass solidifies slowly while flowing over the bed of molten tin, after which it is annealed to remove stresses induced during the cooling process.

Laminated glass is a type of safety glass that holds together when shattered.

In the event of breaking, it is held in place by an interlayer. This keeps the layers of glass bonded even when broken, and its high strength prevents the glass from breaking up into large sharp pieces.

It is glass that has been treated with a metallic substance and offers highly reflective properties.

The phrase  glass can apply to products made specifically to serve as mirrors as well as glass that is reflective but made for architectural or decorative purposes, such as facades or table tops

Tinted float is produced by adding metal oxides during float glass production.

The most common colours are grey, bronze, green and blue. Apart from its function in an aesthetic sense, tinted float is also used to reduce solar heat gain, UV and glare inside a building.

Toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass.

Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the interior into tension. Such stresses cause the glass, when broken, to shatter into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards as ordinary annealed glass does. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury.

Reflective glass is a type of annealed or standard glass that has a thin layer of metallic or metallic oxide coating which has a mirror-like appearance.

This reflective coating is applied during the float process to enhance the amount of heat reflected by the glass. It can absorb and reflect the harmful UV and infrared rays of the sun, yet allows natural visible light to pass through.

Non-reflective glass has been optically coated on one or two sides to eliminate reflections and increase the light transmission. 

It reduces surface glare and increases substrate transmission and brightness, offering better contrast definition over a specific wavelength range.

Patterned glass is a kind of decorative translucent glass with embossed patterns on one or both surfaces.

It is generally used where privacy or obscurity is desired but light transmission is still important. With the special property of its  decoration it can allow light to pass through, at the same time, it can also prevent clear view.

Float glass is manufactured using a melt process, where recycled glass, silica sand, lime, potash and soda are melted in a furnace and floated onto a bed of molten tin.

Two layers of glass with a small insulating gap in between set in a window to reduce heat flow in either direction.

Printwork that has been toughened and infused with the glass.