Oldcastle Glass Introduces StormGlass Hurricane Impact Resistant Glass

Date: 2 July 2003
Source: Glass Digest Magazine

Date: 2 July 2003

Oldcastle Glass, North America's largest independent provider of architectural glass products and services, announces a major innovation in hurricane impact-resistant glazing with its new laminated, high performance product StormGlass.

"StormGlass has been developed to resist very high design pressures for large glazed openings in both the residential and commercial building markets. With its unique, exclusive composite interlayer, StormGlass provides architects and designers with the flexibility of using large glass sizes while satisfying hurricane-related building code requirements," said Ted Hathaway, Chief Executive Officer.

With its advanced interlayer technology, which is the thinnest of its kind available in the hurricane impact glazing market, StormGlass features very high elastic modulus together with improved adhesion to glass. These components make StormGlass one of the best performing and reliable products affording the highest levels of protection without compromising the optical quality of the glass.

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