ESG - Essex Safety Glass Ltd - Products and Company Details

Versatile ESG glass

Glass processor ESG is claiming to be the manufacturer of the most versatile Certifire-approved fire-resistant safety glass range in the UK. ESG Pyrotech Ultimate allows the specifier to combine fire resistance with a range of other properties, including safety, sound attenuation, attack resistance and privacy screening, all produced in-house. Using sophisticated interlayers, ESG can now combine the crime-prevention properties in a single outstanding product, which was hailed as a major advance at its Interbuild launch, says the firm. Within its tried and tested ESG Pyrotech model, the firm has introduced Safe, Secure, Acoustic, and LCD Privacy, in addition to Ultimate. The firm embarked on a research and development programme for these specialist products, responding to specifiers.

Clear Wembley winner

The new Wembley 04, part of the Wembley City development, features ESG glass products. 1307 ESG glass panels have been used on the project representing almost 2000 metres square of technical glass. A range of toughened glass has been used in a variety of applications, including balconies, balustrades and privacy screening. ESG worked closely with glazing experts Hubbards to provide a complete project schedule allowing ESG to efficiently produce the panels.

A clear view with ESG

Vision Design Projects, constructors of glass atriums and stairwells, recently decided to modernise their premises. They chose a structurally bonded glass staircase using specially commissioned panels from glass processor ESG. The stairwell was achieved using precision made toughened laminated panels produced by ESG, which were structurally bonded on site by experts at Vision Design Projects. Structural bonding, using silicone, allows the construction of architectural features such as glass balconies and stairwells, without bolt fixings. This gives clear, uninterrupted lines, to transform the internal space of the building.

A safe, clear view from ESG

Large panels of 12, 15 and 19 mm tempered glass from esg are proving popular for many retailers at the new Westfield London Shopping Centre. ESG supplied a variety of sizes and thicknesses of panels to a range of stores at the centre. The architect also specified ESG Pyrotech fire-resistant safety glass for smoke control in the atrium of House of Fraser's department store, where it was installed to prevent fire from spreading to a higher floor. Graeme Brouder, ESG's key accounts manager commented: "Fire resistant safety glass proved ideal for this purpose, meeting safety requirements without cutting light."

Glass Secured by Design

ESG has been accepted as a member of the Secured by Design initiative by police forces, to get crime designed out of the built environment. Managing director of the firm Scott Sinden says: "We've invested a lot of resource into developing products for security-focused applications". The Secured by Design scheme covers companies whose products have been awarded Police Preferred Specification status. Products now entitled to display the SBD logo include laminate glass/laminated safety glass, clear laminated safety glass, and thermally toughened, heat-soaked and heat-strengthened soda lime silicate safety glass.

Glass for instant provacy

ESG has launched ESG Privacy Glass to provide instant screening at the flick of a switch. The glass provides end users with a choice of either privacy or transparency. The products are available in a variety of bespoke sizes and shapes. Normally a diffused white which acts as a screen, this LCD glass can be made transparent by passing an electric current through it. With the power off, liquid crystal molecules in the film are randomly oriented so the incidental light is scattered, making the glass opaque.