The international technology Group SCHOTT offers improved protective glass laminates based on new specialty glass types. These RESISTAN laminates demonstrate a great ballistic loading capacity. They are available in the most common AEP 55 protection classes. SCHOTT displays examples of these products for use in military vehicles at the German Pavilion, booth HG 633.
SCHOTT´s new RESISTAN laminates are composed of different specialty glass types, combined in a specific way to offer highly effective material properties. This innovative combination of materials allowed a weight reduction of 10% in the most common AEP 55 protection classes. In addition, SCHOTT’s technical glass types are highly transparent and thus they are setting standards for light transmission in the visible range, especially when the ‘night vision goggle response function’ is required. Series deliveries of these new RESISTAN laminates to military customers have started in 2013. Several patents have been granted on these high strength toughened special glasses: DE 102 012 215 864, EP 2 409 834 B1 and WO 2011/120680.
The new laminates are especially hard and offer a great ballistic loading capacity. They cater to the market`s growing need for high protection laminates (STANAG level 4). Looking to the future, Stefan Haase, Head of SCHOTT’s Protection Division, notes, “Several countries are working on projects that require 14.5 x 114 API/B32 threads protecting laminates as single and multi-hit demand. Our RESISTAN® laminates are well-suited for these projects.”
These new materials were developed and are produced at SCHOTT’s Special Glass Competence Center in Jena, Germany. Due to the positive order situation in the civilian market sector, SCHOTT has expanded the protective laminate manufacturing capacities at its site in Jena this year in order to be able to serve the increased demand.
SCHOTT´s new RESISTAN laminates are composed of different specialty glass types, combined in a specific way to offer highly effective material properties. This innovative combination of materials allowed a weight reduction of 10% in the most common AEP 55 protection classes. In addition, SCHOTT’s technical glass types are highly transparent and thus they are setting standards for light transmission in the visible range, especially when the ‘night vision goggle response function’ is required. Series deliveries of these new RESISTAN laminates to military customers have started in 2013. Several patents have been granted on these high strength toughened special glasses: DE 102 012 215 864, EP 2 409 834 B1 and WO 2011/120680.
The new laminates are especially hard and offer a great ballistic loading capacity. They cater to the market`s growing need for high protection laminates (STANAG level 4). Looking to the future, Stefan Haase, Head of SCHOTT’s Protection Division, notes, “Several countries are working on projects that require 14.5 x 114 API/B32 threads protecting laminates as single and multi-hit demand. Our RESISTAN® laminates are well-suited for these projects.”
These new materials were developed and are produced at SCHOTT’s Special Glass Competence Center in Jena, Germany. Due to the positive order situation in the civilian market sector, SCHOTT has expanded the protective laminate manufacturing capacities at its site in Jena this year in order to be able to serve the increased demand.
Amazing how by combining a bunch of different materials, you can make something that you can see through as if there wasn't anything there, but also would break if you hit it with a sledge hammer. Using them in military vehicles seems like it would be a good move. They can get in some pretty tight spots, and being able to be safe from being shot is a high priority. But I'm sure this glass a lot of other uses.
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