Banks and post offices are buildings where large amounts of money and personal items can be managed. Special precautions against injury and theft must be considered for glazing in these building – both internal and external. Laminated glass with polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer is an excellent choice to provide enhanced safety should breakage occur as the glass shards tend to stay attached to the interlayer versus falling away and creating an access point. Specialized laminated glass can also be designed to provide resistance to opportunistic and pre-meditated forced entry attack as well as providing protection against a ballistic assault.
Saflex Solar, a solar absorbing PVB interlayer, brings improved solar control by reducing solar heat gain versus clear and conventional laminated glass without coatings. Saflex Solar can also be incorporated into single unit laminated glass with low-emissivity hard coatings or into insulating glass units (IGU) with or without low-emissivity glasses.
The various types of Saflex and Vanceva interlayers mentioned above can be combined between two pieces of glass or in the same glazing configuration to improve the overall performance of the glazing system and contribute to the optimum performance of the bank/post application.