Looking at the main entrance facade for the new Fulton State Hospital in Missouri, it screams quality glass. It’s all there: flatness, color consistency, and clarity.
And, to get THERE, requires substantial innovation and effort.
Glass + Metal Craft recently teamed with Guardian Glass, Sadev USA, and Central Missouri Glass to create the elaborate structural façade. It incorporates the first use of 12mm thick Guardian SNX 62/27 glass as the exterior layer to a point-supported insulated system. Not many fabricators would get involved with such a project.
But, we did, and navigated uncharted waters.
The 12mm coated glass required the development of a new tempering recipe. Then, fabricating the units required oversize CNC equipment to mill the exterior dimensions and cut precise holes for the point supporting metal. Very challenging! Then there were the delicate tasks of assembling the hole spacers, and heat-soak testing the completed insulated units.
All of this effort takes time and comes with risk, so there’s good reason other glass fabricators say “no”.
But we say “YES”. Glass + Metal Craft is building its reputation as an industry innovator for fabricating quality glass products. We focus our in-house engineering expertise to provide proprietary game-changing solutions. Including products that can be used “right out of the box.”
Look to us to provide cable or fin supported wall systems, minimalistic metal structural hardware, robust entrance systems, and more. Our long view is to be the reliable provider of fully engineered, unique, definitive products. All packaged, moreover, in simple kits to ease the flow of installation.
Most glaziers choose to work in those areas in which they are familiar, and that’s just good business. However, they can count on Glass + Metal Craft to assist them to take on the more difficult aspects of a project and bring it to distinctive completion.
