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- Hammerglass PROPERTY offers a complete range of solutions for new build, re-glazing and add-on glazing with unbreakable glass panels. Hammerglass provides suitable protection in all environments where there is a risk of glass breakage, burglary or vandalism: in shops, shopping centres, public areas, local government property, schools, sports facilities, police stations, offices and industrial premises – but also in private houses and apartments. Hammerglass is the new generation of unbreakable glass in nano surface-treated polycarbonate.
- Hammerglass is 300 times stronger than glass, with a hard surface and half the weight of conventional glass, Hammerglass is an excellent choice both for new installation and glass replacement. Nanotechnological surface treatment renders Hammerglass resistant to most chemicals, and also offers 99.96% UV protection, which means that the material will not cloud, discolour or undergo any other change in optical quality over time. Its estimated service life is more than 40 years. In the event of a fire, Hammerglass will not cause the flames to spread. Weighs half the weight of a normal glass. Hammerglass has also a certified bullet resistance glass.
- No more broken windows
An 8 mm Hammerglass panel is as strong and durable as 24 mm armoured glass, a bolted-on security grille or a roller shutter certified as being of Protection Class 3. It is impossible to kick in a Hammerglass pane, a baseball bat will have no effect on it, and not even a paving stone thrown with full force is capable of breaking the pane. Hammerglass thus provides excellent protection for property against burglars and vandals, and also personal protection from projectiles and explosions, for example. Hammerglass is certified as being of Security Class P8B, which corresponds to the highest protection class for security grilles and roller shutters. In order to qualify for this protection class it is required that the material withstand 70 axe strokes. It is worth noting that, when the test was terminated after 72 axe strokes, the axe had still failed to make a hole in the Hammerglass pane..
- EFFECTIVE – SAFE – WORTHWHILE protection against burglary and vandalism
Preventing burglary is all about buying time. When a burglar finds that it is taking too long to break into a property, the attempted break-in is more often than not abandoned. The weakest point in most properties is frequently its windows and doors with glass panes. If these flat glass panes are replaced with unbreakable Hammerglass panes, the result will be a real increase in burglar protection. Nothing is more depressing than replacing a vandalised or broken glass pane, only to find two weeks later that the same pane has been broken once again. Repeated glass replacement in exposed environments is a very expensive undertaking. The cost of replacing existing glass with Hammerglass, on the other hand, is low when compared with what a burglary or an act of vandalism costs the property owner in terms of money, inconvenience, wasted time and – last but not least – the unpleasant realisation that a stranger has entered his/her private home or office. In the case of new build properties or extensions to existing properties, the additional cost entailed by ordering windows with Hammerglass panes is only marginal.