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Anti-Spall Glazing Solutions

Glass-Gard Anti-Spall Laminates & Interlayers

Glass-Gard is designed to support performance-critical glazing systems where glass must do more than provide visibility. When combined with glass and PVB through standard lamination processes, Glass-Gard helps increase the overall strength of the final glass construction while adding an interior protective layer.

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Built for Protective Glazing Applications

Glass-Gard's PVB layer helps reduce the risk of dangerous glass fragments during impact events, including forced entry attempts, ballistic threats, severe weather, vandalism, debris, accidents, or collisions. Glass-Gard can be used with monolithic or laminated glass systems to add strength, improve safety performance, and support long-term durability in demanding environments.

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What to Expect from Glass-Gard

Madico offers Glass-Gard anti-spall laminates and interlayers in 7 mil and 15 mil options to support different performance needs. The 7 mil option is designed for typical safety and anti-spall applications, while the 15 mil option provides added strength and performance for higher-risk applications.

Glass-Gard is designed for ease of fabrication and can be integrated into standard lamination processes using typical autoclave or lamination oven equipment. It can be used with any brand PVB, giving OEM glass fabricators flexibility when selecting materials and building glass constructions.

Ballistic and Security Glass Protection

Glass-Gard Anti-Spall Laminates

7MIL and 15MIL Options

Madico offers the Glass-Gard anti-spall laminates in two thicknesses to help you achieve the glass performance necessary for today’s standards. Our 7MIL laminate is designed for typical anti-spall and additional strength that you commonly see in the industry and our 15MIL laminate offers additional strength and performance for higher risk applications.

Ease of Fabrication

The fabrication process with Glass-Gard laminates can be done with typical lamination equipment. Our laminates are used by many customers in both autoclave and lamination oven systems, requiring very little to no modification to the lamination process.

No Spall

When glass is impacted by an object, the pieces of glass can be dangerous to people inside of buildings, vehicles, or public transportation. Glass-Gard anti-spall laminates is a protective layer between the glass and people.

Light Weight Layer

Glass-Gard anti-spall laminates serves as a lightweight and efficient solution for enhancing the strength of the overall glass system. Through various testing, our anti-spall laminate has helped our clients reduce weight and thickness of their overall glass make-ups.

Used With Any Brand PVB

As an OEM glass fabricator, you want options when it comes to your suppliers. Madico’s Glass-Gard products are primed on one side to increase adhesion and can be used with any brand PVB.

Strength and Durability

The strength of Glass-Gard anti-spall laminates when combined with PVB, lies in its ability to withstand high-velocity impacts, dispersing energy and minimizing risk. Our laminates use Madico’s proven chemical and scratch resistant hard coat that offers glass-like properties.

Built for Protective Glazing Applications

Where Glass-Gard Anti-Spall Laminates & Interlayers Are Used

Glass-Gard is designed to support performance-critical glazing systems where glass must do more than provide visibility. When combined with glass and PVB through standard lamination processes, Glass-Gard helps increase the overall strength of the final glass construction while adding an interior protective layer.

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Bullet-Resistant Glazing

In bullet-resistant glass systems, Glass-Gard can be used as part of a multi-layer protective construction to help improve overall glass strength and reduce spall formation. When the glass is impacted, the anti-spall layer helps contain fragmentation and minimize the risk of glass shards dispersing toward occupants.

Glass-Gard provides an additional protective layer within the glazing system, helping support ballistic performance while allowing fabricators to build stronger, more efficient laminated glass constructions.

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Forced Entry Resistant Glazing

Glass-Gard helps strengthen windows and glass doors against unauthorized entry attempts. When subjected to forceful impacts, such as attempted break-ins or vandalism, the anti-spall layer helps hold the glass together and reduce dangerous fragmentation.

By helping contain broken glass and support impact resistance, Glass-Gard contributes to safer, more secure spaces for commercial buildings, government facilities, schools, storefronts, and other vulnerable locations.

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Storm-Resistant Glazing

Storm-resistant glazing requires materials that can help withstand severe weather, flying debris, and high-impact conditions. Glass-Gard adds a protective layer that helps hold glass together during impact events, reducing the risk of dangerous shards dispersing into occupied spaces.

For buildings in hurricane-prone or high-risk weather regions, Glass-Gard can support both structural protection and occupant safety while maintaining the transparency and visibility expected from protective glazing systems.

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Public Transportation Glazing

Glass-Gard can help improve safety in public transportation vehicles, including buses, trains, and other transit applications. In the event of impact, accident, vandalism, or flying debris, the anti-spall layer helps contain glass fragments and reduce the risk of injury to passengers. For transportation authorities and vehicle manufacturers, Glass-Gard offers an added layer of protection that supports passenger safety, vehicle durability, and confidence in demanding public-use environments.

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Automotive Glazing

In automotive glazing systems, Glass-Gard can help enhance passenger protection by adding strength and durability to laminated glass. During accidents, collisions, rollovers, or impact events, the anti-spall layer helps hold the glass together and reduce the likelihood of hazardous glass fragments entering the vehicle interior.

Glass-Gard can support windshield, side window, and large sunroof applications where additional safety performance and impact resistance are important.

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Architectural Glazing

Architectural glazing with Glass-Gard can help improve building safety while preserving transparency, natural light, and design flexibility. It can be used in commercial buildings, healthcare facilities, government buildings, residential spaces, and other applications where additional glass strength and protection are required. Beyond safety performance, Glass-Gard also supports decorative and design-driven applications. Glass-Gard interlayers can be printed on directly, allowing for colors, patterns, gradients, branding, privacy effects, and other custom architectural glass designs.

Our Process

From concept to production, Madico Specialty Solutions partners with glass OEMs to engineer, validate, and scale high-performance film solutions—built to meet exact specifications.

Discovery & Alignment

Identify critical-to-quality specifications, then align with engineering, R&D, and design stakeholders.

Engineering & Development

Translate requirements into engineered film structures, coatings, and material combinations.

Process & Scale-Up

Convert validated designs into efficient, repeatable roll-to-roll manufacturing workflows.

Production & Optimization

Deliver full-scale production with ongoing support to meet evolving requirements and next-generation designs.

Prototyping & Validation

Develop sample constructions for evaluation and iterate quickly based on OEM feedback.

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Why Madico?

Madico's film capabilities extend to custom coating, metallizing, and converting services for specialty glass manufacturers. From specialized coatings and precision-engineered film constructions to materials tailored to your production requirements, we help OEMs enhance durability, safety, surface protection, and performance across a wide range of building products.

Advanced R&D Expertise

With 40+ years coating expertise, Madico brings deep scientific expertise to every project—developing high-performance film solutions for complex technical and regulatory requirements.

Precision Manufacturing at Scale

From our 250,000 sq. ft. ISO-compliant Florida facility, we deliver consistent, high-quality films using advanced coating, laminating, and converting technologies.

Proven OEM Partnership Approach

Serving aerospace, transportation, and healthcare OEMs, we work as an extension of your team—collaborating from concept through production to turn your requirements into reliable, scalable solutions that perform in the real world.

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Glass-Gard Anti-Spall Laminates

Product Overview

Madico’s Glass-Gard is a PET-based laminate that can be used with any brand PVB to achieve an additional protective layer to the interior (air) side of glass. <br><br>This protective layer when combined with glass and PVB through an auto-clave or lamination oven process, increases the overall strength of the final glass construction and achieves superior anti-spall performance. <br><br>Glass-Gard can be used with monolithic glass as a light weight solution, or in laminated glass to increase the overall strength without the need for additional layers. Glass-Gard anti-spall laminates combines Madico’s trusted hard coat, to create an excellent scratch and chemical resistant layer, so you can feel confident in the lifespan of our products.

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Glass-Gard Anti-Spall Laminates: Benefits and Applications

An overview of Madico's PET-based anti-spall laminates for OEM glass fabricators, covering product construction, 7 mil and 15 mil options, performance specs, and applications including forced entry, bullet-resistant, storm, transportation, automotive, and architectural glazing.

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