The arrival of Reglit’s bespoke toughening line marks the latest step in Reglit continuous growth and expansion.

The Profilit™ Profiled Glass System in its standard form, whilst being highly flexible in its range of applications, cannot be utilised in circumstances where the use of toughened (or tempered) glass is required.

Our Clients, desiring the beneficial use of the Profilit TM Profiled Glass System in their projects, asked us could we evolve the present system to meet their needs in this regard.

Our answer: to design, build and commission the world’s first purpose made and exclusive Channelled Glass Toughening Oven (Patent Pending). This new facility allows us to toughen channelled glass to a maximum length of 7.5m to increase its strength and performance in order to meet our clients demanding requirements.

Process

Toughened Glass is glass that is strengthened through the process of heating and then cooling the surface rapidly. This process creates surface compression and tensile strength that causes glass to resist breakage, yet disintegrate into small pieces if a break occurs.

Our considerable investment, allowing us to supply toughened channelled glass up to a maximum of 7.5m in length, is yet another part of our continuous plan to allow our clients more freedom to design with the Pilkington Profilit™ Profiled Glass System.

Benefits

• Because toughened glass breaks differently from non tempered glass, it has considerable advantages.
• Up to 5 times stronger than ordinary glass of the same thickness
• More resistant to sudden changes in the temperatures
• Much greater resistance to impact
• Better deflection properties
• Greater tolerance of repetitive load variations than ordinary glass before fracture occurs
• Much less likely to break
• If breakage occurs, the glass shatters into many hundreds of tiny pellets which are unlikely to cause any harm
• Toughened glass is able to be manufactured in various tints or patterns.

Applications

• Low level glazing
• Shop fronts
• Staircases
• Areas of glass under thermal stress

For further information on the benefits of Reglit Toughened Glass and on possible applications,