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Transport & Marine Applications
Architectural glass plays a vital role in the performance, safety, and aesthetic appeal of modern transport and marine environments. Whether it’s a high-speed train, a luxury cruise ship, a city bus, or a performance sailing yacht, choosing the right type of glass enhances passenger experience, improves energy efficiency, and ensures compliance with rigorous safety standards.
NSG Group has a reputation for delivering high performance glass into various types of vehicles, busses, sailing boats, motorboats, cruising ships and many others that belong to transport sector.
Our products can provide various features and functions such as antimicrobial protection, solar control, safety & security, mirror effect, corrosion protection and much more. Our solutions can meet the most demanding specifications for transport sector.
Transport & Marine Applications
Benefits of using the right glass in transport & marine applications:
- enhanced passenger comfort,
- improved safety & security,
- energy efficiency,
- hygiene & maintenance,
- design freedom.
Architectural glass in the transport and marine sectors is more than just a functional element – it’s a key contributor to the performance, appearance, and sustainability of modern vehicles and vessels. Selecting the right type of glass ensures long-lasting results in even the most challenging conditions.
Glass in Marine Applications
Glass in marine environments must withstand unique challenges such as harsh UV exposure, high humidity, salt corrosion, and dynamic loads from wind and waves. All glass types used in cruise ships and other marine vessels must be fully toughened to meet international maritime safety regulations.
Design and Functionality Impact
In sailing boats and cruise ships, the choice of architectural glass directly influences both design and performance. For example, solar control glass and body-tinted glass improve thermal comfort, reduce reliance on air conditioning, and help meet energy regulations. Laminated and screen-printed glass allows for creative design in partitions, stairwells, and viewing areas, while still meeting the strict safety standards required at sea. Mirrored surfaces in cabins and spas expand visual space without compromising on durability.
Recommended Glass for Marine Applications
Laminated toughened glass and toughened glass: Provides superior impact resistance and safety. Laminated glass in the event of breakage remains intact, preventing injury and maintaining barrier function critical for balustrades, canopies, and cabin windows.
Solar control glass: High-performance solar control glass in double- or triple-glazed units reduces solar heat gain while maintaining high light transmission critical for passenger comfort and energy savings in cabins, lounges, and observation decks. Body-Tinted Glass helps reduce glare and solar heat gain, offering both aesthetic and functional benefits. Available in grey, bronze, green, and blue tones, it enhances design while improving energy efficiency. Highly Reflective Glass: Ideal for exterior façades of cruise ships, this glass reduces solar gain and adds a sleek, modern appearance.
Screen printed glass: Adds decorative appeal while also offering solar shading, privacy, and anti-slip surfaces on decks, partitions, or staircase railings.
Recommended Glass for Marine Applications
Anticorrosive glass and mirrors: These specially coated transparent glass and mirrors are ideal for outdoor applications (e.g. glass barriers) to provide transparency and brightness, humid environments, such as bathrooms and spas aboard cruise ships, where traditional glass and mirrors would deteriorate. Anti-corrosive glass and mirrors offer excellent corrosion resistance and longevity.
Fire protection glass: Crucial for onboard safety, this glass provides reliable fire containment in corridors, stairwells, and control rooms while maintaining visibility and aesthetics.
Photovoltaic glass: Building-integrated photovoltaic glass enables sustainable energy generation while maintaining transparency or semi-transparency. Ideal for rooftops, skylights, and façades on ships looking to reduce their carbon footprint.
Glass in Rail and Bus Transport
Glass solutions in rail and bus transport must address safety, durability, thermal insulation, and passenger well-being. Public transport systems require robust materials that meet demanding fire safety and hygiene standards, while also creating a comfortable, modern travel environment.
Glass used in trains and buses needs to balance safety, durability, visibility, and sometimes even smart functionality.
Recommended Glass for Rail and Bus Applications
Laminated and Toughened Glass: These glass products provide strength, impact resistance, and can withstand various conditions, including potential projectiles. Toughened glass is commonly used for side windows and interior partitions, and laminated glass for windshields and high-speed train windows.
Double glazed units: The are used for insulation and noise reduction and are common in passenger compartments of trains.
Solar control and low-e glass: These glass products regulate temperature, reduce glare, and enhance energy efficiency; are especially useful in buses and trams exposed to direct sunlight are also ideal for panoramic windows and driver cabins.
Glass with integrated blinds: Encapsulated blinds inside the glass unit offer sun shading and privacy without the need for maintenance, making them perfect for long-distance rail travel or executive buses.
Fire protection glass: Essential in rail for driver cabin back wall doors, end carriage doors, transparent screens for electronic displays, as well as for shelves and partitions in luggage areas. These glass solutions help compartmentalize fire while preserving transparency and design continuity.
Antimicrobial glass: Incorporating antimicrobial coatings helps maintain hygiene in high-touch areas like windows, doors, etc. increasingly important in public transport.
