Friday 20 May 2011

Specialty glass types

Low-Iron Glass

• low iron glass is manufactured for exceptional clarity . The characteristic greenish tint commonly seen on the edge of standard glass in eliminated by the reduction of the content of the glass to 10 percent.
• low iron glass can be heat-strengthened, tempered, sandblasted, etched or assembled into laminated glass.
•Low iron glass is used in area where color rendition is critical and for furniture , mirrors, museum display cases, signage and where glass to be back-coated with light-colored pigments.

Textured Glass
•Textured pattern glass also known as rolled or figured glass.it is made by passing molted glass through rollers that are etched to produced the design.
•Usually only one side of the glass is imprinted with a pattern.
•Pattern glass can be silvered, sandblasted or have applied colored coatings.


Formed glass

Cast glass
•Cast glass is made by heating flat glass to high temperature over a custom mold so that it slumps into the mold and takes on its shape.
•Cast glass also known as molded glass, is formed in molds, using combination of colors and textured to form the desired product. 







Fused glass
•Multiple-layer glass units are formed by fusing compatible glass together under controlled heating.
•Various glass colors, textures and compatible three dimensional material such as wire, s/steel and cooper screen can be incorporated into the fused unit.
•Fused glass is typically used for furniture and decorative accents, glass borders, panels and other interior elements.








Slumped glass

•Glass slumping is bending or slumping glass into or over a mold. To achieve this, you must take your glass through a few heating and cooling phases.
•slumped glass is typically used for wall panels and signage.





Bent glass
• a precise, strict tolerance form of slumped glass is known as bent glass.
•Bent glass is typically used for wall panels and furniture








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