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Glass is an incredibly versatile product that can be cut, shaped, and manipulated in many ways to create any number of design elements. One of these techniques is known as glass casting. There are many different ways to accomplish glass casting including sand, kiln, and graphite casting. TCG Glass is here to teach you more about glass casting and how to choose the right company to help you create your next cast glass creation.
Dating as far back as the Egyptian period, glass casting is a technique where molten glass is poured into a mold, then allowed to solidify. This process creates a solid piece of glass in the shape of whatever mold was used. Glass casting commonly occurs through kiln casting, but it can also be done by casting into metal, graphite, or sand molds. While this process may sound easy to some, it's surprisingly difficult, and very few people in the architectural glass industry utilize this method today.
While it's often mistakenly referred to as glass casting, glass slumping is a separate process that involves heating glass in a kiln, then shaping it over a metal, ceramic, or sand mold instead of inside it. This process uses extremely high temperatures until the glass reaches a molten state, where the glass is flexible (but not liquid). In this flexible state, gravity will force the glass to change shape as it "slumps" into the mold. Using this technique, large glass panels can be created with tempered glass, laminated glass, or annealed glass.
Even though the processes are different, the terms, glass casting, and glass slumping, are often used simultaneously, since the processes use similar steps. In fact, glass slumping is usually called glass casting at most architectural glass companies since it's the more commonly used technique. At TCG Glass, we technically create slumped glass, but like everyone else in the architectural glass industry, we call it “cast glass” to avoid confusion with the customer. If you are interested in advanced architectural glass products see our DichroGlass™ the first laminated dichroic glass sheet that incorporates, color-changing films that actually change color in full spectrum color shifts according to viewing angle.
It can be difficult to choose a company for cast glass projects, so TCG Glass is here to provide four things you should keep in mind while selecting an architectural glass company:
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