UK -Toughened Glass FAQs

Everything you need to know about Toughened Glass

Toughglaze is an established and world-renowned leader in the manufacture of glass including Toughened Glass and we have been in operation since 1993. Over the years, we have grown by heavily investing in our state of the art production equipment, processes and facilities. We continually focus on improving the efficiency of our production methods, ensuring 100% quality of the glass we manufacture and supply. We are glass experts and we know everything that needs to be known about the manufacture and supply of quality glass products. We offer our services for small, medium and large domestic and commercial projects and our glass range enables you to create bespoke designs with safe products complying to BS EN standards as listed on our Kite Mark Licence.

What is the difference between toughened and tempered glass?

Toughened glass is also known as Tempered glass and they are the same types of glass. It is a safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared to normal glass.

In this article, we refer to toughened, safety and tempered glass as they are the same glass product.

What is toughened glass?

Toughened glass, also referred to as tempered glass is physically and thermally stronger than normal glass. The prime function of any toughened glass is to ensure if broken for whatever reason then it breaks safely. The manufacturing process also increases the strength of the glass and makes it 4 – 5 times stronger than normal annealed or regular glass. It is ideal for many applications especially when incorporated into lamination.

If tempered glass is broken the stress contained from its manufacturing is released and results in the glass breaking into small harmless pebble-like particles.

Toughened glass is now required by regulation for every building project due to its increased strength and safety characteristics.

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Where is toughened glass used?

Tempered glass is now used the most due to the change in building regulations from 1st April 2002.

It is used in domestic and commercial windows and doors, emergency exits, car windows, shower doors, tables, refrigerator shelves and many more. The reason it is used most is that when it breaks it shatters into thousands of tiny round pebble-like pieces rather than sharp jagged shards of glass, making it safer for anyone or any other structures around.

If you are looking for Toughened Glass, Tempered Glass, Toughened Laminated Glass or any other type of glass then Toughglaze can help. We work on small and largescale development and refurbishment projects and will work alongside you to ensure the glass we produce offers a safe and design focused result. We use our state of the art production equipment, processes and facilities to produce the highest quality glass which complies to BS EN standards as listed on our Kite Mark Licence.

We have been awarded accreditations for ISO 9001: 2015 with our glazing products and processes.

Contact us today on 0208 838 4400 and one of our glass experts will be happy to help or visit us here to find out more and to read our full FAQ's: commercialglassandglazing.com/london/toughened-glass-faqs/.