Technical glass is more than meets the eye
Technical glass is glass with special properties. Through processing, ordinary glass can acquire properties that either have significant safety implications or serve as the perfect completion of a particular application or design. Mirit Glas specializes in producing small and smaller technical glasses. Not large windows, but for example, glass used in products and production facilities.
When we talk about technical glass, it is a broad term because useful properties can be added to glass in many ways. In fact, almost all the glass we make at Mirit Glas can be called technical glass.
There are types of glass that can be called technical glass due to their inherent special properties, such as lead glass, germanium glass, chemically hardened glass, or sapphire glass.
A glass that has a special shape or step grinding aimed at a particular purpose is also technical glass.
In other cases, it may be a coating of the glass that gives it additional properties. Coatings can have many different purposes from highly technical to, for example, ClearShield, which makes the glass water-repellent.
Some glasses can be a combination of several different types of processing.
Mirit Glas specializes in the technical processing of glass, and together with our highly well-stocked raw material inventory of technical glass, it means we can always find a solution for our customers.
Contact Mirit Glas and we will find the right technical glass and the appropriate processing for your needs.
We will find the right solution for you
When we help our customers find the right solution, we assess, based on the usage specification, which features are needed:
Mechanical and Optical properties of technical glass
The strength and flexibility of the glass can be increased by tempering(see possibly tempered glass and chemically tempered glass)
Transmission of wavelengths. It can be both blocking and highlighting. Including IR and UV wavelengths, anti-reflective glass, specially ground glass or glass to attenuate radioactive rays as lead glass, for example, does.
Chemical and electrical properties
What the glass must be able to withstand e.g. strong chemicals.
Most types of glass can be used as electrical insulators, and with certain coatings you can also use the glass as an electrical conductor.
Many options
There are many options within technical glass. For example.:
- Quartz glass
- Anti-reflective glass with coated surface or ultra-fine broken surface
- Ultra thin / thick glass
- Instrument glass
- Coloured glass
- Display glass
These types of glass raw material Mirit Glas has as a fixed shelf item in our warehouse. Read more about our glass raw materials here.
