Switchable Glass

Metro Switchable glass is like an inbuilt privacy system, allowing for the effortless shift from clear glass to opaque glass and vice versa with the flick of a switch, using an interlayer that is inserted as part of a laminated panel.

Features

Benefits of Metro Switchable glass

Convenience – Metro Switchable glass works flawlessly every time. The effect happens with the press of a button and works in a fraction of a second. What’s more convenient than that?

No moving parts - unlike other privacy systems, our Switchable glass has no pulleys, strings, fixtures, or chains to wear out, tangle up, or get stuck.

Maintenance - No moving parts means maintenance-free enjoyment. It’s also easy to clean compared to curtains and blinds, with just a quick wipe down.

True transparency – Metro Glass has mastered the switchable glass formula to offer the absolute lowest amount of haze in our product.

Transform your space - Switchable Glass allows you to completely change a space to suit your different needs. With the flick of a switch an open office space can turn into a private meeting room.

Scope of use

Switchable glass applications

• Hospitality – ensuite divisions, windows
• Corporate – minimise distractions, meeting privacy
• Healthcare – intensive care units, operating rooms
• Residential – windows, ensuite divisions
• Retail – store front display, marketing campaigns

How does Switchable glass work?

Switch the current off and the glass turns opaque, turn it back on and the glass reverts to a clear, transparent view. This ingenious technology involves a film of dispersed liquid crystal in a polymer matrix pressed between two glass sheets. When a small current is applied to the liquid crystal, its molecules align allowing light to pass through. When the current is disconnected, the molecules immediately disarrange for instantaneous and total privacy

It is a LSG panel that can be sold as a single panel or included in insulated glass units for both internal and external applications.

The switchable glass panel is obscure when the power is off and becomes transparent when the panel is switched on.