How to purchase tempered glass

tempered glass spontaneous breakage

Tempered glass is widely used for shower, table top, windows and doors and other architectural applications. As more and more spontaneous breakage cases about toughened glass in our life. Do you now think tempered glass is safety enougth? After many years of experiences on architecural glass industry, now I am very pleausre to share my personal points when purchase tempered glass for your next projects.

First of all, you need to know why tempered glass has the potential risk of spontaneous breakage? Please move to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_glass_breakage for more details.
General speaking, all tempered glass manufacturer in the world can't 100% control the spontaneous breakage if it is a fully tempered glass. But it is available to reduce the risk by heat soaking process.So please select heat soaking tempered glass when you want to purchase tempered glass.
Please note that toughened glass has a few risk of spontaneous breakage even if the heat soaking process. If you want to need a 100% glass spontaneoous breakage free, we suggest you choose heat-strengthened or laminated glass instead unless fully tempered glass have to be required according to your local building code.

Second, we strongly suggest you polished the edges. As the glass edges is so weak. If it is not a polished edges, it is easy to be broken when tempering or striking on the edges.

Polished tempered glass with safety corner

Third, chose a professional tempered glass supplier, especially a horizontally tempered glass company since horizontally tempered glass processing is a new generation tempering techinical in the market. No bow is avaialbe.

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Where should Toughened Glass be used?

Being a Grade A safety glass, toughened glass can be used in areas that require safety glass to comply with current Australian Standards. High traffic areas and other positions that are likely to be subject to human impact require this type of glass to minimise potential injuries. Panels of glass in doors, side panels next to doors, low level glazing and other similar locations must be either toughened or laminated glass, which provide a safe situation when broken.

In addition to the safety aspects of toughened glass it is also a strong and durable product, which can withstand higher impact and even higher temperatures. Areas subject to excessive amounts of heat such as splashbacks, hot food displays and other similar applications require toughened glass for this reason. Glass panels that are subject to impact or vandalism such as bus shelters, squash courts and balustrades benefit from the extra strength provided by toughened glass.

Shower glass doors

Product Name: Bent and Curved Tempered Glass, shower room glass
Place of Origin: China

Features:
1) Bent tempered glass is a toughened glass, which is curved with special process
2) Applications: Such external sites as facades, shop fronts and panoramic lifts, such internal sites as showcases, shower doors, refrigerator cabinets
3) Straight toughened glass sizes: 3000 x 9000mm
4) Thickness: 3 - 19mm

Production instructions:
1) Heated to about 680 degree and afterwards cooled sufficiently
2) The glass will be transmitted into a mold, at which the glass takes shape of the mold
3) The glass will be up to 4 times stronger than annealed glass and it will break into many small fragments (fully tempered)