CURVED GlASS

DETAILS

Bent glass is increasingly used in both interior and exterior applications allowing architects and designers to free their imagination and customize each project by making it unique.

It is used in building facades, stained glass windows, interior design (furniture, counters, screens, interior divisions, etc.), commercial buildings, railings, panoramic elevators, stairs, revolving doors, ceilings, etc.

Bent glass can be supplied in monolithic, annealed, thermally toughened or tempered glass, in laminated glass (we recommend laminating glass of the same thickness such as 6+6, we can laminate with colorless butyral, acoustic, sentry glass, etc.), in double glazing, with selective layer glass, solar control or low emission glass, etc.

Most of the manufacturing processes that can be carried out on flat glass can be applied to bent glass (edging of the glass edges, silk-screen printing, drilling, all-glass sealing for assembly on insulating glass, etc.).

Process type	Maximum Dimension (mm)*
GLASS CUTTING	6000 x 3210
EDGED	6000 x 3210
LAMINATED	6000 x 3210
TEMPLATED**	6000 x 3210
HEAT-STRENGTHENED**	6000 x 3210
DOUBLE GLAZING	6000 x 3210
SCREEN PRINTING	6000 x 3210
HOLES	6000 x 3210

*FOR GLASS WITH DIMENSIONS GREATER THAN 6000X3210, CONSULT US

**THE GLASS THICKNESSES AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES MUST COMPLY WITH EUROPEAN MANUFACTURING REGULATIONS WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE RESTRICTIONS

GLASS TYPES

Conical Curve

Spherical Curve

Flat glass with a curved side

Flat glass with 2 curved sides

Cylindrical Curve

Double curvature

Bent glass with a «wave» effect

GLASS PROCESSING

Bent Glass Type	Maximum Dimension*	Maximum Development	Glass Thickness	Minimum Radius
CURVlam(T) BENT LAMINATED TEMPLATED	3210 x 6000	3210	from 4 to 8 10,12	750 750
CURVlam(S) BENT LAMINATED HEAT-STRENGTHENED	3210 x 6000	3210	from 5 to 8 10,12	750 750
CURVTemp BENT TEMPLATED	3210 x 6000	3210	5, 6, 8 10 12	1475 1700 2000
CURVa BENT ISOLATING	3210 x 6000	3210

*FOR GLASS WITH DIMENSIONS GREATER THAN 6000X3210, CONSULT US

**FOR RADIUS LESS THAN 750mm, CONSULT US

Gravity bending:

Gravity-bent glass is obtained by slowly heating flat glass to its point of plasticity and once the glass has been softened, under its own weight, it will adapt to the desired shape by using custom-made molds.

Bending by means of a tempering furnace:

Tempered bent glass is manufactured in a bending furnace by means of convection heating and rapid cooling. Like any tempered glass, this thermal process increases its mechanical resistance to bending, compression and impact(more or less 4 or 5 times more resistant than annealed glass) without altering the spectrophotometric properties of the base product and is considered as a safety glass since, in case of breakage, the small glass fragments would be harmless. It could be thermally hardened instead of tempered in the bending furnace with slower cooling (for glass thicknesses of 5to 10 mm) and the HST (Heat Soak Test) process could also be added to the tempered glass if the project requires it.

Our latest-generation bending furnace allows us to manufacture tempered and heat-strengthened bent glass with selective, solar-control and low-emission coatings, etc. Offering high performance in TL, Solar Factor, and thermal(K value of 1.0 W/m2-K in double glazing and 0.6 W/m2-K in triple glazing).

Specialty laminates:

We specialize in specialty laminates, offering a wide variety of laminated curved glass options, from multilaminate, sentry glass laminates, to pool laminates.