Breaking Misconceptions About Laminated Glass

High-performance interlayers add to the stability, design flexibility, and adaptability of architectural glass

Meeting building codes and providing strength, sound damping, solar control, visual beauty, and impact resistance for safety, security, storm protection, and post-breakage performance are all attainable with laminated glass when using proper design.

The only safety glass is fully tempered glass

Reality: Laminated glass does not need to incorporate tempered glass to be considered a safety glazing. The laminate simply needs to meet the appropriate safety glazing impact standard for the region it will be used in.

Laminated glass cannot be used in exposed external applications.

Reality: Laminated glass is ideal for both exposed and external applications. PVB interlayers produced prior to 1997 tended to be more susceptible to visible delamination due to environmental influences such as high moisture. When viewing laminated glass that was created and installed before this time, it may be easy to assume that laminated glass is not capable for this particular use.