POLFLAM is an independent European manufacturer of fire-resistant glass. The company applies its proprietary technology for the production of hydrogel. On offer POLFLAM has glass of varied application: both indoor and outdoor, in all fire-resistance classes from EI 30 to EI 180, including curved glass. Nonetheless, the brand’s hallmark is glass panels of exceptionally large dimensions: 2200 x 4200 mm, and more recently even 2420 x 4620 mm – and that in the EI 60 class!
Glazed partitions to provide maximum daylight inside the building are the dominating trend in modern architecture today. Still, wherever the large-surface glazings function as curtain walls, we find ourselves limited by glass sizes available in the market. This is because large-size fire-resistant glass panels are a technology challenge for manufacturers, as high as the required fire-resistance rating. High-rise buildings of fire-resistance class A are required to use partitions of the class as high as EI 60. When it introduced, later in 2015, the EI 30 glass panels of exceptional size – 2200 x 4200 mm onto the European market, POLFLAM has broken down an important technology barrier. Soon, also higher-class glass of the same format made its way into the company’s offer. Following the September testing of the EI 60 glass in aluminium joinery carried out in a notified laboratory, the company’s offer got extended to POLFLAM® EI 60 symmetrical fire-resistant glass in a record-breaking format: 2420 x 4620 mm!Large-sized fire-resistant glass panels mean less construction members in the partition which translates into a measurable increase of the indoor light saturation index, the more that POLFLAM® glass has exceptional light transmittance factor. On top of that, there is this indisputable visual effect: the huge glass panels are truly impressive.
