GLASS LAMINATES is proving to be a solution to the Glass Tinting and sun control problem in the face of the new Supreme Court Ruling. 

What is GSS [Glass Strengthening System]?

 GSS [Glass Strengthening System] is a combination of the highest quality polymer films, and GSS’s proprietary cleaning, mounting, and bonding solutions, that when applied to your ordinary glass, will turn your glass into a strong, super strength, protective barrier. Glass Strengthening Systems will help protect against sever storms, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, as well as smash and grab robberies, breaking and entering, and at the same time offer our customers protection from harmful Ultra-Violet rays and Sun's Heat.

"Due to its unique ability to strengthen glass, protect lives, and property GSS, Inc. is one of the fastest growing companies of its kind. GSS is well known and highly respected throughout the world by governments, military, and safety and security companies where our products are being used."

The primary function of GSS is to strengthen glass first, then keep the glass intact, in its frame, if broken.  The likelihood of injury to person and property is greater in the course of normal glass breakage than that of our treated glass.  It is a proven fact that the application of our film to existing glass can greatly reduce the chance of property damage and injury. Secondary functions include Heat reduction, Sun control and anti-glare etc which is a perfect alliterative to traditional banned sun control films.

GSS films and products can be found installed throughout the country and globally on government buildings, military bases, police stations, television and news stations, schools, and hospitals such as The Mayo Clinic, banks, Walt Disney World, and even Cape Canaveral. Furthermore, a significant part of business is also generated from limitless home and business owners who have GSS’s Glass Strengthening and Protective Film Systems applied to their homes, businesses, and automobiles. GSS can be found all over the world, including some of the major trouble spots, like India, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Columbia and China. GSS is the only product of its kind that has been tested and approved for the installation and sales in Hong Kong and China.

Glass is everywhere, and still remains as one of the weakest points when it comes to protecting lives and property. The need for safety and security is more apparent now than it ever has been, and there is no times like the present, for you to be preparing for the unexpected threat of sever weather conditions and crime. With GSS many more people can have the peace of mind in knowing that their glass is protected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.  Let GSS makes your world a safer place.

Glass Breakage and the Consequences

What Causes Glass To Break, And What Are The Consequences?

Human Impact: One of the major causes of injury is the result of human impact: Simply, it is the act of a person unintentionally going through a pane of glass, which can cause injury. Safety glass is used where these possibilities exist. Local, State, and National safety glazing codes and legislation are enacted to help protect individuals from such occurrences. The most commonly recognized code, where safety glass is required is called ANSI- Z97 (American National Standards Institute). Types of approved safety glass are: tempered glass, laminated glass, and any glass with Glass Strengthening Systems film applied.  

    

The Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that in 1995, there were over 2, 25,000 glass related accidents in the U.S. These statistics were gathered from the emergency rooms of hospitals and doctors throughout the nation. Glass Strengthening Systems decreases and virtually eliminates injury from this type of human impact.  The tensile strength of the film, coupled with its elasticity and its high resistance to shearing greatly removes, if not eliminates, the ability of a person to break through by walking, running, or falling through glass.

Natural Catastrophes: Climatic and geographic conditions can result in a variety of events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and violent storms.  Under these conditions, glass can unexpectedly and violently is subject to all the forces that can cause injury and property loss: pressure, mechanical, twisting stress, and impact. The difference between an explosion and natural born events is its duration.  Unlike a single event explosion, natural catastrophes and its effects can last hours, even days. According to the National Insurance Institute, over 1, 00,000 panes of glass were broken nationally from natural, violent events in 1999. Even lesser events are cause of major concern for the insurance industry, which paid out over a billion dollars in damage and medical claims in 1999 for minor claims unrelated to major catastrophic disasters. GSS offers a high degree of protection against all the factors above. Even in cases where glass is broken, the film has been shown to keep the glass and the frame intact providing protection from wind and water damage. GSS product has been tested to keeping over 95% of broken, fractured glass to our film.

GSS films are resistant to hurricane impact and have garnered a considerable amount of attention since Hurricane Andrew struck south Florida in 1991. The damage caused by Andrew led to significant code changes for new construction at county and state levels, not just in Florida, but also in most coastal states. These code changes require the glass and glazing structures to pass missile impact and cycling tests, which simulate a hurricane environment. The severity of the testing will depend upon two aspects: the height of the structure and the location of the structure, along with its expected wind speed for that area. The height of the structure will determine the size of the missile (i.e., whether it will be large or small). Structures at ground level and no higher than 30 feet above ground will be subjected to the large missile and structures above 30 feet will be subjected to the small missile.

Impact: Many windows are broken either intentionally or unintentionally by thrown objects. Whether by an errant golf ball or a smash and grab robbery attempt, the result is the same.  Velocity and energy cause the glass to break.    

The application of GSS product to these windows will reduce, if not completely eliminate, both damage to people and property. GSS product has a high degree of elasticity and energy shock absorbing capability. The energy at the point of impact is instantly disbursed outward to deflect the blow.  In all but the severest cases the object is rejected without penetration or breakage.  Even in severe cases where breakage occurs, the film keeps the glass intact eliminating a shower of glass fragments.

GSS films have long been used to enhance the performance of glass in areas where earthquakes often strike. In an earthquake, the glass is broken by compression due to the twisting or “racking” of the building. Using GSS film, glass can break catastrophically, but the shards will be held adhered to the film, thereby reducing the possibility of injury. Usually, a simple “daylight” application of a 4-mil or thicker film will suffice for this protection.

Almost any film can be helpful in thwarting the efforts of the “smash-and-grab” artist since he has a very short time limit. If the glass breaks “but” stays in place, the probability is that he will leave and usually will go to an easier target. However, when his more serious counterpart takes on a piece of glass, it is going to have to be protected to a higher degree. These fellows will try cut through film or push it out from the corner to gain entry, this is where GSS excels in protection with up to and over 95% of glass remaining adhered to film and frame and with some of the highest “Tear Strengthen” rating in the industry. In order to offer a significant level of protection, we suggest the use of thick films, 8, 10 to 16-mil, and anchor the film on all four sides when possible. The predominant test for determining the performance of applied film on glass for intrusion is the Underwriter’s Laboratory (UL) 972 for burglary resistance. This consists of a 5-pound steel ball falling from ten feet and striking the glass five times. No penetration of the ball is allowed.

Explosions: Whether accidental, as in an industrial gas leak or an intentional political or terrorist act, the results are always the same: massive devastation. A recent Government report concluded that 27 lives were lost in the Oklahoma City bombing with the primary cause of death being flying glass.

An explosion displaces air and creates a shock wave or as more commonly known: over pressure.  This over pressure results in a vacuum being created where the blast has pushed air away from itself generating the shock wave. Almost instantaneously, a vacuum created by the over-pressure causes an immediate rush of air back to the point of origin, causing the glass to flex back towards the original direction of the shock wave. The results are that glass flexes from both positive and negative pressures resulting in catastrophic breakage.

GSS film on glass can dramatically reduce the effects of an explosion. GSS’s product has the ability to stretch without tearing and also has the characteristics to absorb a large portion of the shock wave.  In many cases the glass may break, but due to the Bonding strength of our Secure-Bond Solutions, Acrylic Adhesive and the film itself, the glass remains adhered to the film and frame by up to and over 95% adhesion rating.

Ballistic (Firearms) Attacks: With the large degree of “drive by” and / or prank related shootings, firearms attacks are a major cause for concern. The result of a bullet hitting a pane of glass is similar to that of any other object only with more intense compacted velocity. The glass violently explodes and the projectile is not slowed. GSS by no means constitutes complete protection against such occurrences. However, dependent upon the thickness of the glass and film used GSS products have been tested to resist 9mm and AK47 rounds. GSS products keep the glass from exploding, and even though penetration may occur, laboratory and ballistics tests confirm that trajectories are altered, velocity is greatly diminished, and projectile splintering greatly diminishes loss of life, this is also referred to as “Non-Lethal Penetration” which can reduce serious injury.

Fire Bombs: While it is not a common method of attack in the U.S., firebombs, (commonly referred to as Molotov Cocktails) constitute a very real threat by the very nature of the damage they can cause. GSS products, applied to windows at risk, can prevent the firebomb from penetrating and thus will prevent the resultant fire inside. The firebomb will burst into flames on the exterior of the building confining any damage outside.

Solar Heat Reduction: Our clear and tinted films, like conventional films offer varying degrees of heat and glare reduction. Factors to be considered are: solar and energy heat transfer, shading coefficients, emissivity, and heat and glare rejection. GSS product can be extremely energy efficient as well as be protective. Even our clear films have up to 27% solar rejection, 98% Ultra Violet Rejection, while retaining up 98% optical clarity.   

Ultra-Violet Ray Protection: Our film, by its manufactured nature, filters out most all of the harmful and damaging ultra-violet (UV) rays. This is the part of the light and heat spectrum most commonly associated with carpet, fabric and furniture fading. All of GSS’s products filter out over 98% of these harmful UV rays, reducing harmful fading.

What Separates GSS from the “Others”?

GSS Laminate Films are made of Clear Polyester fibers, while sun-control films are made of Plastic. So there is no comparison to the traditional Sun-control films which were banned by Supreme Court.

GSS stands alone as focusing on only one goal: Making the best and strongest glass strengthening and protective film systems in the world at an affordable cost.  GSS achieves this goal by blending the original Du-Pont Polyesters, our Proprietary Solutions, and the patented super strength Adhesive that are on the films with today’s manufacturing technology.

GSS offers several levels of protection with 1 up to 4 ply (2-mil up to 21-mil) polymer films.

GSS offers a line of ISO CERTIFIED films.

GSS products are so successful that other manufacturers and resellers have and continue to try and copy GSS products, business plan, ideas,  so please be careful of whose product you choose. 

 

Adv.Anu V. Nambalikkaran at the Napier Museum, Kerala.
The Bulletproof Casing Of 'Velu Thampi Dalawa' s Sword was done by
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