Products
Glass plays a critical role in construction today. It has a variety of applications from foundation to skylights. And for each application, the glass is required to have specific properties.
We offer the widest range of glass, meeting diverse industrial, commercial, and residential needs, including construction, automobile, pharmaceutical, furniture, defense, and railway sectors.
Glass walls create a symbiosis of indoors and outdoors. Natural lighting, better air quality and a connection to one’s surroundings improve the productivity and health of the occupants of a building.
Glass in Architecture
Glass is being used extensively in todays architecture. It brings in light and plays as a great medium to experiment upon.
We offer many functional glass types to make life more pleasant and secure inside these high rise modern buildings, including glass for insulation, energy-conservation, crime and disaster prevention, and noise reduction.
The use of Energy conserving glasses in making Green buildings has greatly multiplied in the last few years.
We at Kochhar provide solutions for all your architectural requirements.
Glass in Automotives
At Kochhar we make both Tempered Glasses and Laminated Wind Shields for the special use in cars, bus bodies, and other automobiles. The benefits are Strength, Safety, and Security and UV rays protection.
Glass in Industrial
Glass is particularly used for making solar panels which help in absorption of solar heat. Such glasses are extensively used in making Solar Panels.
Miscellaneous
Glass is now being used in Micro ovens; refrigerators and in other equipments in the industry like the LCD monitors, table computers,etc.
Sound Reduction
In humans, hearing takes place whenever vibrations of frequencies from 15 hertz to about 20,000 hertz reach the inner ear. The need to restrict sound arriving from the external environment means that glass should be able to shield and insulate while satisfying more sophisticated design standards. The most common type of glass used in noise control are laminated glass and insulating glass(double glazed). Laminated glass incorporates a special PVB interlayer, which absorbs some of the sound energy, reducing its passage. The acoustic PVB interlayer can be utilized to reduce the noise level experienced in cars. Better sound insulation is also achieved with double glazed glass. Vacuum sealed inner space, special selection of glass types, and some gasses effect sound insulation and provide acoustic stability.
Solar & Heat Control
“Is glass a good insulator?” The clear answer is No! But it could be. There are various choices available to the informed buyer to save on energy costs and get all aesthetic and psychological benefits of glass. Coated and tinted glass products and insulating glazing units can be used to control the flow of energy into and out of a building. In a hot environment like India, solar control glasses can be used to dramatically reduce the effect of the sun’s heat, minimizing the need for air-conditioning. Solar control glass, usually either body tinted(absorbing) or coated(reflecting), is used to reduce unwanted solar radiant light and heat energy transmitting through glass. Similarly, in colder environments, low emissivity( low-e) glass can be used which reflects heat back into building, thereby minimizing the need for heating.
Safety & Security
A commonly perceived notion is that glass compromises safety and security. However, continuous research and technology advances have made glass safer and more secure that it ever was. Solutions like laminated glass in its various types are being widely used for the purpose of accidental protection. Commonly used in car windscreens, laminated glass ensures that glass does not shatter when hit by a baseball bat or even during natural calamities like earthquakes. Glass can now protect your home and office from threat from burglars. A panel of multi-layered glasses or special made thick glass can offer even higher levels of protection from bullets to blast to burglary.
Strength
While glass offers superior aesthetic looks and flexibility in its use and application, the most perceived drawback of glass is strength. The same has resulted in forcing both architects and consumer to use glass restrictively in exterior and interior application.
However, with recent advances and better technology the same concern has very much reduced through effective application of tempered glass. Tempered glass, 4-5 times stronger than ordinary glass, is used traditionally in place of other glass products in applications requiring increased strength and reduced likelihood of injury in the event of breakage.
The building industry, motor vehicle industry and certain manufacturing industries find tempered glass is effective and economical in a wide range of app, it is now safe for people living in glass houses to pelt stones at others.
Colors & Aesthetics
Glass for Beauty and Privacy- best of both worlds!
Glass is more than functional-it is architectural. It gives the illusion of more space, increases natural lighting,
and lends character to interior spaces. Architectural glass goes beyond architecture to become art,
using textures, patterns, colors, and technique to define and highlight individual tastes.
Glass can incorporate rice paper for a softer look, be mouth-blown for a more authentic, vintage feel,
or be rolled for a three-dimensional look. It can be practical, like sleek, contemporary frosted glass that
leaves no fingerprints behind. Glass can be patterned, laminated, frosted or acid-etched,
offering varying degrees of translucency for privacy and design.
Glass can transform space with color, light, and pattern. Used in doors as insets or panels, art glass allows light to penetrate interior spaces while capturing the eye with colors, patterns, and laminates that make an architectural statement.
