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Toughened Glass

  • Independent Glass manufacture a range of glass products which are toughened to architectural, automotive, marine and rail standards, all carrying our trademark that spells safety and strength in a variety of applications and a multitude of end uses.

    Our toughened division is equipped with five horizontal glass tempering furnaces processing thicknesses from 3mm through to 19mm offering a maximum panel sizes up to 6000mm x 2800mm. We have the facility to provide heat soak testing as specified. As well as toughened glass we can provide heat strengthened glass. We have successfully achieved ISO9001:2015 plus a range of other European and international standards for our products.


    Toughened glass is also supplied extensively to the double glazing industry, glaziers, installers, architectural metalworkers and a variety of construction industry subcontractors. In addition, we support other glass processors with excess demand and large size requirements. All our toughened glass is easily identified by our registered trademark.

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Laminated Glass

  • Independent Glass can supply an impressive range of high quality laminated glass products, including laminated toughened and heat strengthened glasses, suitable for most safety and security applications. Regularly specified for standard architectural laminated glass is now increasingly used to meet the demands of high specification projects.

    Ideally suited to balustrading, partitions and roof glazing, IG can manufacture laminated glass incorporating a wide range of cut outs and drill holes. Laminated glass with coloured interlayers is also available in both primary and pastel shades.

    In addition, energy efficient or solar control glasses can be incorporated, along with a wide range of finishes, such as screen-printing and easy clean coating. Compliant with current European Standards, whatever your safety glass requirements, Independent Glass can be relied upon to have the capability and technical expertise to supply products to meet your needs.

    IG’s range of laminated glass products includes these specialist products:

    • With Vanceva Coloured Interlayers - these interlayers can be combined to produce over 1,000 transparent, translucent or opaque colour options with all the performance benefits of laminated glass to achieve a unique and stunning finish. These coloured interlayers can be combined with tinted or reflective glasses to give endless design possibilities.
    • With DuPont™ SentryGlas® ionoplast interlayer - which is 100 times stiffer and 5 times stronger than traditional interlayers and produces a super strength glass for structural applications. This product not only protects against more powerful impacts but allows the use of reduced glass thickness (and thus reduced weight loadings). Laminated glass made with SentryGlas® acts as an engineered composite with low mechanical strain under loads and outstanding post breakage resistance to creep and collapse. Whilst having superior strength SentryGlas® also has outstanding clarity and is the ideal partner to Low Iron glass in applications where a clearer final product is required.

Sound Reducing Laminated Glass 

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Independent Glass’s range of laminated glass offers two solutions for sound reduction. The use of standard PVB laminated glass gives a considerable degree of noise reduction along with all its other inherent benefits.

Where safety and security criteria are not specified but sound reduction is a paramount requirement then the incorporation of AC41 acoustic interlayer, with its high sound reduction performance, is the ideal solution.

Sound Reducing Laminated Glass 

Independent Glass’s range of laminated glass offers two solutions for sound reduction. The use of standard PVB laminated glass gives a considerable degree of noise reduction along with all its other inherent benefits.

Where safety and security criteria are not specified but sound reduction is a paramount requirement then the incorporation of AC41 acoustic interlayer, with its high sound reduction performance, is the ideal solution.

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Heat Strengthened Glass

  • Heat strengthened glass is designed to give some of the characteristics of toughened glass e.g., a proportion of the increased strength (approx. 1.5 times stronger than annealed) and thermal resistance (approx. twice as resistant to thermal stress and shock than annealed) while retaining the fracture characteristics of annealed glass.

    Heat strengthened glass should not be considered a safety glass in its monolithic form but it can be laminated.


    Heat Strengthened glass which then combines the thermal stress resistance characteristics with safety performance to the relevant BS EN 12600 classification.


    Independent Glass heat strengthened glass is manufactured to BS EN1863. 

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Specialist Services

Traditional in-house screen printing of virtually any glass substrate to your design specification, or from a choice of our standard designs. From simple masking off for direct bond glazing situations, to elaborate decoration of office partitions or domestic furniture, we also offer a wide range of colour options providing limitless visual and functional opportunities.

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Traditional in-house screen printing of virtually any glass substrate to your design specification, or from a choice of our standard designs. From simple masking off for direct bond glazing situations, to elaborate decoration of office partitions or domestic furniture, we also offer a wide range of colour options providing limitless visual and functional opportunities.

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A wide range of hole sizes and cut outs can be produced dependent on the suitability of the glass substrate.

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Offering shapes with advanced waterjet cutting facilities at every manufacturing site, IG can produce complex shapes in monolithic and laminated glass (including standard and safety mirrors) up to 100mm thickness. This equipment also enables accurate repeatability for follow-on orders.

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IG can supply monolithic and laminated glass, including mirrors, with traditional sand blast surface finishes from simple opacity masking stripes to all over decorative coverage, logos or bespoke designs.

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Glass decorated by making surface cuts to customer design.

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In partnership with AGC, we’re able to create decorative glass panels and mirrors in beautifully curated collections of colours and styles.

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From a high resolution file of your colour image we can reproduce it in high quality vibrant detail permanently onto glass.

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