Safety Glass

Hi-Lon Glass installs several different safety products including Tempered, Georgian Polished Wire, Georgian Cast Wire and Laminated glass.

Tempered glass is glass cut to the required size and then put through a heating process to harden it. This procedure manufactures glass that is approximately four times harder than its annealed version. Safety comes from this strength and from its unique fracture pattern. When tempered glass breaks, it shatters into small relatively harmless pellet size pieces. There are no jagged edges or sharp shards which markedly reduces the likelihood of injury.

Laminated glass consists of two or more sheets of glass held together by a transparent membrane of plastic (PVN) or resin. When laminated glass breaks, it will generally remain in one piece, held in place by the laminate that is sandwiched between the two pieces.

Wire Glass is 6mm (¼ inch) thick and has a light gage wire grid pattern in it. When wire glass breaks, it is held together by the wire incased inside.