Technical Glass

We give technical glass the right finish

The areas where our technical glass is used are extremely diverse: they range from highly complex components for medical technology through robust solutions for industry to design oriented applications for household appliances or sanitary facilities. EuropTec is the perfect supplier for all these applications. Our scope of services includes all standard finishing technologies. Innovative finishing methods, experienced employees and Swiss quality awareness make us one of the internationally most sought after producers of technical glass.

The increasing networking of buildings follows the trend of offering property owners the greatest degree of comfort, security and efficiency possible. Smart Homes are becoming not just more intelligent but also increasingly design oriented. Due to its diversity and advantageous material characteristics, glass is a particularly sought-after material. It is used for plugs, switches, switch frames, control panels, room temperature controllers, door intercoms and smoke detectors and with state-of-the-art processing techniques EuropTec can implement almost all shapes, colours and designs. Our glass combines pleasing haptics with a high level of resistance to scratches and breakages.

In construction and mechanical engineering, the latest technologies and innovative products are highly popular. The special glass from EuropTec meets the high requirements of these sectors and can be implemented in many different ways. For example, as single pane of safety glass for viewing guards or laminated safety glass to protect against dust and dirt, water and steam. Safety glass is also suitable as inspection glass when dealing with aggressive acids or alkaline solutions and for the area of explosives. For operating elements or input panels in indoor and outdoor applications, mechanical or optical interference anti-reflective glass from EuropTec is the optimal solution.

Components for laboratory and medical equipment require the highest precision and uncompromising quality. The qualities of glass really come to the fore here. Thanks to a surface that is particularly easy to clean, its robustness and its resistance to chemicals, this material is ideal for use in medical technology.  EuropTec develops and manufactures customer specific glass solutions that are used in the most diverse medical areas. Our special glass is particularly effective in diagnostics and laboratory technology. In production, continuous process validation is as much a sine qua non for us as consistent quality management.

Bathrooms and sanitary facilities have been transformed in recent years from simple functional areas to spaces that are technically and aesthetically sophisticated. Technical glass in this area of application not only has tangible, practical advantages, it also offers a multitude of different design options. EuropTec manufactures individual products according to customer requirements – from modern glass shelves to design oriented fittings, washbasin countertops and WC push plates. With our innovative processing options, we can create glass components in almost any shape, colour and design.

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Functional glass must have a flawless surface, so that coatings take perfectly, for example. With our etching processes we can clean and chemically polish glass or increase the breaking resistance of the glass by means of acid treatment. In this process, any damage to the surface of the glass that occurs during sandblasting or CNC treatment, for example, is smoothed away. Our acid bath also cleans glass of any chemical impurities that are not visible to the naked eye, or levels out microfine cracks that could quickly result in rupture failures in the case of stress or a change of temperature.

In addition, using a specially developed etching process, we can remove manufacturing traces of tin from the glass bath side/tin side and thus prevent warping of glass surfaces during the chemical hardening process.

Etched surfaces according to precise customer specifications optimise the writing experience on script discerning displays, for example. Structured and/or etched surfaces are haptically optimised, resistant to fingerprints (anti-fingerprint) and similar contamination and thus ideal for touch applications. In addition, by means of a specially developed etching process we can remove tin particles that are created during the manufacturing process from the glass bath side/tin side and thus prevent warping of glass surfaces during the chemical hardening process.

The high quality appearance of our products is achieved through special surface characteristics with optimised cleaning abilities. The special surface structures of our glasses support the functionality of a number of applications – either as writable projection boards for beamer presentations or industrial displays.

With modern computers and telecommunication systems, high quality operating elements with touch function are increasingly being used. These have to be AR coated, touch sensitive, pleasant to the touch and easy to clean when in constant use. Our etched glass meet these high requirements and the anti-fingerprint effect in particular is a major advantage when it comes to anti-reflective products for touch applications that have to be optically interference free.

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Whilst untreated glass simply reflects light and creates annoying reflections, the light is definitively scattered by our structured glass surfaces. This almost completely eliminates any interference from glare and mirroring effects.

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LUXAR® offers an anti-reflective coating for flat glass that is interference free. Reflections on the surface of the glass of more than 8% for uncoated glass are reduced to 0.5 % and light transmission is improved at the same time, thereby significantly improving the brilliance of the image as the colours remain true.