Heat-strengthened glass PILKINGTON
T GLASS

Overview
Pilkington T glass is the name for Pilkington Toughened Safety Glass. Pilkington T glass is up to five times stronger than ordinary glass of the same thickness. Because of its increased strength, Pilkington T glass allows architects and builders far greater scope in their use of glass in buildings. It meets world-wide safety standards for glass subjected to accidental human impact at the highest level of severity. Wherever the benefits of ordinary glass need to be combined with extra strength, safety or heat resistance, Pilkington T glass can offer a complete and proven solution.

Pilkington T glass Plus is the heat soaked form of Pilkington T glass for those applications where a reduction in the of spontaneous fracture is advantageous, such as structural applications, barriers and roof glazing. In this case Pilkington T Plus should be specified along with the other product benefits required.

Pilkington T glass is manufactured by subjecting final size, edgeworked panes of glass to a heating and cooling treatment whereby high compressive stresses are set up at the surfaces with balancing tensile stresses in the centre. The high compressive surface stresses give the Pilkington T glass its increased strength.

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