TERMEX®
TERMEX® heat strengthened glass (according to EN 1863 standard)
TERMEX® is the product resulting from a similar process to TEMPREX® glass, although its cooling procedure is slower, acquiring more resistance. As a simple glass, a monolithic one, TERMEX® isn’t considered a safety glass, but when it is integrated in a MULTIPACT® glass becomes essential in many and varied glazing solutions.
When TERMEX® breaks, it has a similar performance as an annealed glass, the only difference remaining is that the breakage will start from the breakage point until the edge of the glass which allows a greater stability. When TERMEX® is a component of MULTIPACT® glass, it becomes notably important, as thanks to its breakage it doesn’t cause scattering, it grants more stability as a whole. In solutions where glass isn’t sustained in 4 sides, for example, a MULTIPACT® TERMEX® solution grants more stability to the glazing.
TERMEX® acquires the following characteristics:
- Greater resistance to thermal shock (thermal origin breakage)
- Greater mechanical resistance to compression.
- Greater resistance to flexion.
- Greater resistance to twist.
- Greater mechanical resistance to impact.
- Optic properties not affected by the process.
All mechanical intervention made in the glass, such as drillings, notches, edges, etc., must be done before the heat treatment takes place, once finished, any mechanical intervention would break the glass.
Applications
TEMPREX® acquires characteristics which make it ideal to install as a MULTIPACT®
MULTIPACT® glass component in guardrails, wall partitions, to solutions where glasses are colourful in mass and susceptible to break due to sudden temperature change (thermal shock).
