55 Glass - Safety & Security Glass includes Tempered Glass, Laminated Glass & Wire Glass
Tempered Glass
Depending on the application for your glass, you may need to have it tempered. Tempering is a process that heats and cools the glass. After glass has been tempered, it is about 4 times stronger than annealed (not tempered) glass. It is also more scratch resistant.
It is up to you to know if the glass you need must be tempered for a specific application (it is required by law for certain applications), but generally glass used in a hazardous location must be tempered, and glass used as a glass protector top or a glass table top does not.
Do you want your glass tempered? We leave this decision up to you. The downside of getting glass tempered is if it breaks. It will break into many very small pieces which is difficult to clean up. Also, if the glass is used as a table top and it breaks, then everything on the table can also fall and potentially break. The upside is that tempered glass is much stronger, more scratch resistant, and safer than annealed glass. It must be used in hazardous locations.
Price list for 1/8"-1/4" custom cut tempered glass
Laminated Glass
Laminated glass
is a safety glass.
It is often used when
tempered glass is
not an option or in
combination with tempered
glass, such as, for use
in sky lights. Not
all glass can be tempered
so if that kind of
glass is going to
be used in a door
or other hazardous
location, it must
be laminated to another
piece of glass, usually
clear glass. Laminated
glass also works very
well for security
because the flexible
interlayer bonds permanently
to the glass.
1/4" Clear laminated glass is the most common. It uses a .030 PVC interlayer to bond two pieces of 1/8" glass together. The result is an invisible bond that is very difficult to penetrate.
1/4" White laminated glass is also very common. It uses a white interlayer: the result being a frosted translucent look. Both 1/4" White Lami and 1/4" Clear Lami are in stock at 55 Glass Los Angeles.
There are different colors and thicknesses of laminated glass that can be made as special orders. Bullet resistant and glass used as floors is a combination of different thicknesses of glass and interlayer.
Please remember safety glass must be used in hazardous locations.
Wire Glass
Wire glass, or
wired glass, is sheet
glass in which wire
mesh has been inserted
during production.
The impact resistance
of this glass is similar
to that of normal
glass, but in case
of breakage, the mesh
retains the pieces
of glass. This product
used to be accepted
as low-cost fire glass
but is no longer acceptable
for this use. Now,
wire glass is mostly
used for windows because
of it exceptional
security qualities.
Clear wire glass and
obscure wire glass
are available at 55
Glass.
