Overview
Pilkington
Dark Grey™ and Pilkington
SuperGrey™ are low-reflective body-tinted glasses which offer dramatic, deep cool grey appearance, increasing visual privacy and dramatically reducing read-through from interior shading devices.
- In a different shade of grey, Pilkington Dark Grey™ offers higher light transmission whilst providing solar control performance.
- Pilkington SuperGrey™ combines stunning exterior aesthetics and unsurpassed interior glare control with the best solar control performance of any tinted float glass in the industry.
Both products soften bright daylight and reduce glare, making them perfect for applications near computers and video display screens.
Applications
Pilkington Dark Grey™ and Pilkington SuperGrey™ are ideal where architectural designs or restrictions prohibit structures with high reflectance. Common applications include low, mid and hi-rise buildings, such as hospitals, educational institutions, offices and retail skylight applications.
To achieve additional thermal insulation, the products have to be combined in an insulating glass unit with a low-emissivity glass.
Benefits
- Uncoated glasses which provide the performance of reflective glass
- Enhanced visual privacy and reduced read-through from interior shading devices
- Pilkington SuperGrey™ is the best solar control of any uncoated glass, providing the lowest shading coefficient of any float glass and a better shading coefficient than many reflective glasses
- Unsurpassed light and glare control, improving visual privacy and reducing the need for blinds or shades
- Distinctive aesthetics inside and outside, offering a deep, cool grey tint from the exterior, whilst providing a remarkably crisp, comfortable view from the interior as they offer a neutral colour from the inside
- Uniform, no read-through look between spandrel and vision glass areas eliminating the need for an opacifier in the spandrel glass
- Pilkington SuperGrey™ offers low UV transmittance, significantly outperforming other tinted and coated glass products (in 6 mm it blocks 99% of the sun’s damaging UV rays)
- Additional thermal insulation performance when combined in an insulating glass unit with a low-emissivity glass
- Can be used in monolithic form or incorporated in insulating glass units
- Available in 5 mm and 6 mm thicknesses
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