Safety glass is something many of us look through every time we ride inside a vehicle or enter a public building. Laminated Tempered Automakers began using laminated safety glass, also known as auto glass, for automobile windshields in 1927. The plastic film holds the glass in place when the glass breaks, helping to lessen injuries from flying glass. The film also can stretch, yet the glass still sticks to it. It is also quite difficult to penetrate laminated safety glass, compared to normal window pane glass.
Banks use a multiple-layer laminated glass to help stop bullets.
It blocks 97 percent of ultraviolet radiation. Greenhouse windows Shower enclosures Office partitions Laminated safety glass resists falling out of its frame during an earthquake or a tornado. Tempered safety glass is a single piece of glass that gets tempered using a process that heats, then quickly cools, the glass to harden it. The tempering process increases the strength of the glass to five to 10 times that of untempered glass. Tempered safety glass breaks differently than regular clear glass.