Highly resistant protection for a safe train journey with AGC.

Highly Resistant Glass Chemically Tempered

Solid as a rock

What is Highly Resistant Glass Chemically Tempered ?

Highly Resistant glass is made using a chemical reinforcement process which greatly improves the mechanical resistance (6 to 8 times stronger than annealed glass)

Features and benefits

Weight watcher

Highly Resistant glass allows a decrease in glass thickness, reducing weight whilst maintaining strength

Unique optical quality

Perfect optical quality, no shading or strain pattern.

For any Transport or Industrial vehicle

Available in any glass thickness. For transport and industrial vehicles applications, AGC usually uses glass between 0.7mm and 25mm.

Position on vehicle

CASE/MaaS

Environment

Visibility and Safety

Gallery

Technical information

Chemical tempering

Highly Resistant glass is made using a chemical reinforcement process. Glass is immersed in a high temperature bath to replace sodium ions (Na) with potassium ions(K) putting the glass surface in compression, making the glass substantially more resistant to mechanical shocks and thermal stresses.

Quality

Highly Resistant glass keeps its initial flatness and optical quality with no strain pattern, as if it was annealed glass (unlike thermally tempered glass).

Safe laminated glass

Highly Resistant glass maintains residual visibility after breakage unlike thermally tempered glass which brakes in very small pieces which prevents acceptable visibility. Therefore, Very High Resistant glass is laminated to consider it as a safety glass.

Weight optimization

At equivalent performances, Highly Resistant glass allowing the use of thinner glass giving the benefits of reductions in both weight and thickness.

Used all around the vehicle

Typically used for windshields, lightweight side windows or interior glass