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Fire Resistant Glazing - Self Cleaning - Structural - Security Glass
Pilkington Building Products - UK manufactures a wide range of float, coated, rolled, laminated and toughened glass products as well as its own range of high performance insulating glass units including Pilkington energiKare™ - energy efficient glazing which reduces the amount of heat lost, while also allowing more energy from the sun through the window. Glass is distributed to customers, either as stock or as bespoke processed products to meet their needs, direct from St. Helens or through our network branches countrywide.
The company is highly focused on quality and service, continually improving to deliver the benefits of Pilkington's technical ability and innovation to the end user. Pilkington glass products offer a wide range of properties from fire-resistance to thermal insulation and sound reduction to safety. We are constantly developing new technologies to take glass even further and our comprehensive testing regimes not only mean all our products meet the latest regulations but also that you can be sure of Pilkington quality, whatever glass you specify. To help you choose the right glass for your particular project the range is categorised by product benefit.
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The Pilkington energiKare™ allows you to get all your energy saving requirements from one source. From new homes to older traditional buildings, you can now provide better energy ratings in a wide range of different properties.
Pilkington Planar™ the world’s leading structural glass system opens up vast possibilities enabling the creation of complete glass envelopes for buildings with frameless façades on any plane. Support structures, located internally or externally, can use glass mullions, a conventional steel construction or the revolutionary Pilkington Planar™ Tension Structure design, to be as subtle or dominant as appropriate. Pilkington engineers, working with DuPont scientists have combined their leading edge technologies to develop the ultimate in strength, safety, durability and appearance in laminated structural glass and are now able to offer - the Planar™ | SentryGlas® System which is ideal for roofs.
A range of fire-resistant glass is available offering varying levels of protection, which is measured in terms of integrity (the time the glass remains intact in a fire) and insulation (the amount of time the glass will limit the temperature rise on the non-fireside). It should be noted that fire-resistant glass should always be specified as part of a complete glazing system, and installation carried out by specialists in order to ensure it achieves its expected fire performance.
Pilkington Pyroshield™ 2 is a monolothic wired glass that provides integrity classification for fire protection even in timber frames. This range includes Pilkington Pyroshield™ 2 Safety Clear, a clear safety option for vision areas, and Pilkington Pyroshield™ 2 Texture offering a textured non-safety option for obscuration.
Pilkington Pyrodur® , Pilkington Pyrodur® Plus (integrity with some insulation) and Pilkington Pyrostop® (integrity and insulation) comprise multi-laminated layers of float glass and clear intumescent material which produce an opaque shield on exposure to fire which limits the transmission of conductive and radiant heat.
Pilkington Building Products - UK currently offer four Online RIBA Approved CPD Seminars:
Visit: http://www.pilkington/co.uk/cpd for more details


Pilkington Building Products-UK
Prescot Road
St Helens
Merseyside
WA10 3TT
Tel: 01744 692000
Fax: 01744 692880
Reference: ANO100