Pilkington Optilam™

Overview

Pilkington Optilam™ is ideal for providing both impact resistance and security since it may break on impact but the glass is held in place thus preventing injury or intrusion.

Pilkington Optilam™ is produced by combining two or more sheets of glass with one or more plastic interlayers to obtain increasing degrees of security. The performance of Pilkington Optilam™ can therefore be varied by changing the number and thickness of each of the glass panes and the polyvinylbutyral (PVB) interlayers to give the specifier a wide choice of products depending on application, whether it be for safety or security, noise control, solar control, UV screening, bullet and blast resistance or privacy and decoration. Noise control can be further enhanced using specially developed CIP interlayers.

Pilkington Glass Systems for shopfronts is a specially developed security glazing system for use with Pilkington Optilam™. In the event of an attack, the glass remains bonded to the frame, resisting entry for far longer.

Benefits

• Laminate resists penetration – glass may break but interlayer retains overall integrity and continues to act as a barrier.
• Protects against break-ins by preventing or slowing down burglary attempts.
• Protects against vandalism and brief attacks using easily available objects.
• Withstands repeated blows from heavy objects such as bricks, hammers, crowbars and similar hand held heavy objects.
• Depending on the extent of the attack the product remains integral and protects the premises adequately and limits penetration whilst awaiting replacement, offering:

– protection from secondary looting – damage from the wind and weather – safety while broken, reducing personal injury – often no need for 'boarding up'

• Typical applications include buildings or shops displaying valuable goods, banks, building societies, post offices, security glazing in hospitals and prisons, museum display cases etc.
• Available in 7.5 to 19.5mm standard thicknesses.
• The correct grade and thickness specified for the application depends on the value of goods on display, degree of risk, estimated time needed by thieves to break in and enter.
• Conforms to BS 6206: 1981 Class A.
• Provides some degree of UV protection.
• Range of products meeting EN 356, the specification for anti-bandit glazing.
• The light spill at night from glass shopfront windows acts as an additional deterrent to the burglar. Compare the effect with solid shutters which highlights to the burglar that the shop is empty.
• Retailers claim that a lot of shoppers make purchasing decisions when browsing during out of shop hours. Using solid shutters prevents this.
• Pilkington Glass System for Shopfronts has been specifically developed as a security glazing system for shop fronts, where in the event of attack, the glass remains bonded to the frame resisting entry for far longer.