Should You Opt For Glass Or Polycarbonate - Tuflite Polymers

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Glass is one of the most traditional materials
used in a variety of applications like
construction, architecture, interior design,
crockery, sunglasses, and much more. But, it is
being highly replaced with polycarbonate roofing
sheets, another transparent yet more durable
material than glass. However, there are others
who still stick to using glass for their
applications. So, if you are in a fix as to
which material to choose from the two, we are
here to help. In this blog, we will let you know
the individual properties of both glass and
polycarbonate, and help you compare both so that
you can make a better and wiser decision.
Glass
Glass is being used as a popular material since
almost a thousand years! It is a
completely transparent material that is perfect
when you need applications where 100 sunlight is
needed. It has also been used in eyeglasses to
provide optimum clarity. Let us look at some of
the basic properties of glass.

• Glass is completely transparent, letting in 100
  sunlight.
• Glass is 100 clear, which is why it is popularly
  used in eyeglasses, camera lenses, binocular
  lenses, and microscope lenses.

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• Glass is scratch-resistant, meaning no additional
  coating required to protect it against
• stones, hail, bird pecks, etc.
• Glass is heavy, which can make it difficult to
  carry and deal with, if needed in a big
  dimension.
• Glass shatters easily with harmful shards flying
  around, which may cause harm to those nearby.
• Glass has limited aestheticism with very limited
  colours available.

Polycarbonate
Polycarbonate has been replacing glass in a
variety of applications since the past few
years because of the equivalent transparency it
offers, but with lesser weight and higher
durability. Here are the basic properties of
polycarbonate.

• Polycarbonate is UV-resistant, meaning that it
  can let in maximum sunlight, yet prevent
• the harmful UV radiations of the sun to pass
  through making it ideal for greenhouses and
  other similar structures.
• Polycarbonate is light in weight and thinner as
  compared to glass, making it more comfortable to
  carry, install, and deal with.
• Polycarbonate is durable and shatter-proof with
  10 times the impact resistance of glass, making
  it ideally safe one of the most important
  reasons it is used in the eyewear and security
  industry.
• Polycarbonate is bulletproof, which has given it
  popularity in applications used for police force
  and security sectors.
• Polycarbonate is available in various colors,
  which can help your structure look beautiful and
  more attractive than glass.
• Polycarbonate is flexible, which helps to shape
  it in any shape like domes and circular
  structures where glass cannot be used.
• Polycarbonate can scratch easily, which is why it
  requires an additional scratch-resistant coating
  for longer life.

To conclude, we can say that while glass is 100
clear and transparent, it is heavy and
less durable than polycarbonate. Moreover,
polycarbonate is light in weight, shatter-proof,
bulletproof, flexible, and UV resistant thus
proving it to be superior to glass in many ways.
Also, designers prefer polycarbonate where they
want to add visual appeal to their applications.
One drawback with polycarbonate is that it is
scratch-proof, but with an additional coating,
this error can be resolved too. However, the
choice is up to you, depending upon the
application you wish to use the material for.
But, if you decide that polycarbonate is the
material for you, you can get in touch with
Tuflite Polymers, where you can get a wide range
of polycarbonate roofing sheets like solid,
clear, textured, profiled, corrugated, and
multi-walled.