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You can get the best of your furniture and construction work with curve glass. With a unique form of glass design, your construction work just got better. You can make use of curve glass for smooth flowing lines to a building also add a unique look to your design.
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Read more....What makes up the beauty of your home? Definitely, many areas will come to mind, but the 2 major areas to focus on are the kitchen and bathrooms. You might need to consider the value you intend to create with this glass before installing them. Toughened/tempered glass will best get the job done for you.
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Read more....Toughened or tempered glass is a type of glass that has been heated to softening point then rapidly cooled. Toughened glass can be four to five times stronger than float glass and it offers the highest resistance to impact. Toughened glass is treated to be far more resistant to breakage than simple annealed glass (i.e normal glass) and to break in a more predictable way when it does eventually breaks, thus providing a major safety advantage in almost all of its applications. It is ideal for application in doors, buildings, car windshields, windows, glass portions of building facades, glass sliding doors and partitions in houses and offices, glass furniture such as table tops, and many other products typically use toughened glass. If broken, the whole pane of glass shatters into small pieces that are relatively safe.
Toughened glass has different properties and this can be broken down into mechanical, has higher thermal strength, fragmentation and other properties.
| Thermal Shock Resistance: | withstand high temperature changes up to 250°C |
| Mechanical Strength: | four to five times stronger |
| Tensile Strength: | 65MPa |
| Conducive for Processing: | Cannot be cut after Tempering |
| furnace heat point (annealing point): | above its annealing point of 600 °C |
| Bending Strength: | 120-200 N/mm2 |
| Fragmentation: | Tempered glass cannot be cut or altered. |
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Read more....Glass production involves two main methods: the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers. For this post, we would be discussing the float glass process.
Float Glass Process
The float glass manufacturing process was developed by Pilkington in 1959, taking flat glass technology to a revolutionary new level. The glass gains its lustrous finish and perfect flatness by floating on a bath of molten tin in a chemically controlled atmosphere. The ribbon of glass is then cooled, while still moving, until the surfaces are hard enough for it to be taken out of the bath without the roller marking the surface. The glass is then automatically cut and stacked, ready to be packed for distribution to local and international customers. Below are the stages of float glass processing:
1) Sand, limestone, soda ash, dolomite, iron oxide and salt cake are mixed together with cullet in the batch plant.
2) The raw materials are then charged into a large furnace to be melted at 1600°C. They combine in a process of physical transformation to form molten glass.
3) A continuous ribbon of molten glass is fed out of the melting furnace onto the surface of an enclosed bath of molten tin at 1100°C. The molten glass literally floats on top of the tin, and as it flows along the surface of the tin bath away from the delivery canal, it forms a ribbon of uniform thickness. Thickness is controlled by the speed at which solidifying glass ribbon is drawn off from the bath.
4) The glass is then lifted from the tin bath onto rollers to the annealing lehr to be cooled down. At this stage the internal stresses are released ensuring perfect flatness and solidity.
5) Once cooled down and solidified the glass goes to the cutting area where it is cut in to a large sheet of ‘jumbo size’ (6×3.21 meters) or ‘cut-size’ which are specific to customer orders, before being stacked for transportation.
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The use of G2G clear slimline dry joints, offers an alternative to silicone sealant, allowing partitioning installers to configure glazed modules with unbroken sight lines and enhanced aesthetics. The G2G range allows combinations of structural designs to be composed creating unique partitioning configurations. For internal use only.
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Read more....Glass is a combination of sand and other minerals that are melted together at very high temperatures to form a material that is needed for a wide range of uses. Apart from being transparent, inexpensive to make, easy to shape when it’s molten, it is a hard brittle substance,
typically transparent or translucent. Irrespective of the shape or size, glass is made from liquid sand. This occurs by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly.
Today man has mastered the glass-making process and can make many different types of glass in infinitely varied colours formed into a wide range of products. Glass, chemically, is actually more like a liquid, but at room temperature it is so viscous or sticky it looks and feels like a solid. At higher temperatures glass gradually becomes softer and more like a liquid. It is this latter property, which allows glass to be poured, blown, pressed and moulded into such a variety of shapes.
It’s important to know that glass is one of the oldest and most versatile human-created materials in the world and one of the most popular material in our homes. Glass can be found wherever you look, both within and without a building: Building constructions are majorly made with glass; rooms in your home will have a glass window or a glass mirror, cars have glass installed for protection and clearer vision, our gadgets are made with glass screens. Glass as a material in its own, will always exist. But many new applications and manufacturing processes will involve glass in combination with other materials.
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