What is the disadvantages of tempered glass

Now, tempered glass is more and more popular. Almost the glass factory has the glass tempering furnace to produce tempered glass.

And here, we would like to show some disadvantages of tempered glass, it is for for your reference.

1. The flatness is not as good as regular glass

2. There is a certain self explosion rate

3. The optical effect is not as good as ordinary glass

In response to the weakness of tempered glass, people have further developed heat strengthened glass (also known as semi tempered glass). It takes longer than tempered glass during secondary heat treatment, and the control process system is also stricter. Its price is about 10% higher than the processing cost of tempered glass. Thermally reinforced glass retains all the advantages of tempered glass and overcomes its shortcomings. Nowadays, the use of coated thermally reinforced glass as building curtain walls is also increasing in the world. In addition to using tempered and semi tempered glass, laminated coated glass is also a safe and reliable curtain wall material.