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Glass Handrails and Stairs

The commonly used glass types for glass railings include tempered glass, laminated glass, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.

Tempered glass: Tempered glass is safety glass, it drop down with small fragment when it broken not hurt people.

Laminated glass: PVB Laminated glass or SGP laminated glass consists are the two used for glass raillings and stairs and glass bridge.

Glass Options For Handrails And Stairs

1 Clear Toughened Glass

Normally glass for handrails are 8mm or 10mm thickness, made to toughened glass ,the advantage is high strength much stronger to avoid glass breakage.

If glass handrail is made with single panel and in the big wind area, to guarantee the safety handrail glass, recommended the longest handrail is around 2000mm, the height is always around 1000-1500mm.

2 Low Iron Toughened Glass

Low iron glass spontaneous rate is only 10% of clear glass, glass visible transmittance is up to 92%, the glass strength is also better than clear glass.

3 PVB Toughened Laminated Glass

Glass handrail in public area like shopping mall or museum normally are PVB laminated glass, double layer of the glass is double stronger than single panel, With a PVB interlayer, even if the glass on both sides of the pane are damaged, it will usually stay in place.

4 SGP Toughened Laminated Glass

SGP is SentryGlas Plus interlayer, SGP reportedly has 5 times the strength and 100 times the rigidity of standard PVB. SGP laminated glass widely used for glass bridge.

Glass Options For Handrails And Bridge