12 Mil Frost Matte combines safety film strength with the view control benefit of our Frost Matte film, creating the perfect product for areas that need both physical and visual protection. 12 Mil Frost Matte film can disguise unattractive areas of a building interior from the outside, provide privacy, and help to visually separate rooms with glass walls while providing protection to occupants from broken glass.
12 Mil Frost Matte can be used to increase privacy and security in schools, office buildings, healthcare facilities, restaurants, IT & server rooms, retail environments and other locations where a translucent appearance and safety glazing is needed. 12 Mil Frost Matte protects building occupants and property in accidents involving broken glass and provides significant resistance to forced entry. Additionally, its translucent appearance mimics etched glass providing aesthetic benefits.
12 Mil Frost Matte is available now in 60” x 100 ft rolls. Contact your service center for pricing.
Madico Graffiti Free films act as a sacrificial barrier to help control vandalism and provide a cost-effective alternative to replacing damaged glazing. Graffiti Free window films are easily installed and replaced so your glass will always look its best.
Many common applications of Madico Anti-Graffiti films include:
Retail storefronts: Vandalism can create a harmful image for your establishment. With our Anti-Graffiti window films, you can maintain your reputation by quickly removing paint from your storefront.
Product displays: You can prevent costly graffiti-related damage to your product displays with our easily replaceable films.
Schools: Our Graffiti Free films can help reduce window replacement costs for school districts.
Transit systems: Transit systems like subways and airlines are commonly vandalized locations that you can protect with Graffiti Free films.
Elevators and escalators: If you own a retail establishment, you’ve probably experienced graffiti-related incidents in your elevators and on escalators. You can protect this expensive equipment with our resistant films.
Vending machines: Vending machines are easily accessible to the public, making them prime targets for vandalism. With Graffiti Free films, you can avoid costly glass replacements.
Restroom mirrors: Restrooms are common locations for destruction. Luckily, you can prevent damage to your mirrors with Anti-Graffiti films.
Museums: Graffiti Free window films are ideal for shielding glass art display cases from damage.
Polymeric substrates: Madico Graffiti-Free® Blister Free 600 is designed specifically for application on polycarbonate and acrylic substrates. Polymeric substrates such as these absorb moisture on high humidity days and exude that moisture vapor on low humidity days, leading to the blistering of standard film products. Graffiti-Free Blister Free film offers a proprietary adhesive that is not affected by the absorption and release of this moisture and remains intact.
Graffiti Free is optically clear and distortion-free and can be used on the interior or exterior surface of glass or other smooth surfaces. The film is removable for easy replacement without leaving residue, improving turnaround time for maintenance.
When you use Graffiti Free film for your windows, you’ll experience these benefits:
Invisible vandalism protection: Our discreet films safeguard windows from vandalism without altering the appearance of your glass.
Easy installation and removal: If your property is vandalized, you can quickly remove and replace your Anti-Graffiti film with ease.
Helps retain broken glass fragments: Our high-impact window films keep glass together when shattered, deterring break-ins and reducing the risk of injuries.
Protects against scratching, spray paint, and acid etching: With Graffiti Free window films, you can seamlessly shield valuable objects from vandalism.
Cost-effective replacement when needed: It costs significantly less to replace window films than it does to replace a damaged window or object.
Clear safety and security film provides 24-hour, passive protection against common threats. With the application of safety and security film you can rest assured that expensive equipment is secure and that employees are safe.
Protects against:
Vandalism
Intrusion
Severe weather
Accidents involving broken glass such as golf balls or lawn equipment debris
Flying glass fragments by holding the glass together.
Benefits:
24/7 Safety & Security: film holds shattered glass together to protect against storms and vandalism.
Cost Savings: in the event of an impact, film is less expensive to replace than safety glass.
Clear Appearance: provides invisible safety and security.
Extensively Tested
Professionally Installed
In addition, Clear safety and security film blocks unwanted ultraviolet ray exposure without changing the appearance of glass. Clear safety and security film is available in an exterior application when required.
Madico safety and security films have been extensively tested by independent testing facilities and meet safety glazing criteria as defined by CPSC, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Underwriters Laboratories.
Includes a Manufacturer’s Warranty in North America. Ask your dealer for details.
Wet Glaze
In the event of glass breakage, the Wet Glaze Anchoring System, when combined with Madico Safety window films, is designed to absorb and disburse the energy that the filmed glass is subjected to and transfer the reduced load over the entire glazed opening. By absorbing and distributing the load, the system is designed to retain the filmed glass in the opening and thus reduce the probability of glass fragments and debris from entering the room.
The Wet Glaze system is economically viable in retrofit applications and is built around a triangular sealant joint connecting the film to the supporting framing members. To achieve acceptable performance, a very high-performance sealant must be used. We recommend Dow Corning® 995 Silicone Structural Adhesive or GE SCS2000 SilPruf™ Sealant.
Madico View Control Films
1. Improved privacy: Safety and security window films can also improve privacy by making it more difficult for people to see inside the building. This can be particularly beneficial for glass located in busy or high-traffic areas.
2. Controlled day time view: View Control film systems can enable the person within the building to see out while limiting or even preventing the person outside the building from see in. These are systems are often called “one way” or “dual reflective”.
24/7 Safety & Security: film holds shattered glass together to protect against the hazards of broken glass falling from a window.
Cost Savings: in the event of an impact, film is less expensive to replace than safety glass.
Clear Appearance: provides invisible safety and security.
Extensively Tested
Professionally Installed
In addition, Clear safety and security film blocks unwanted ultraviolet ray exposure without changing the appearance of glass. Clear safety and security film is available in an exterior application when required.
Anchoring Systems for Spontaneous Breakage
Madico always recommends the use of an anchoring restraint system for glass with spontaneous breakage. There are many anchoring restraint systems available. Mechanical anchoring such as FrameGard®, which holds the film in place through a combination of screws and tape and an aluminum extrusion. This is by far the safest attachment system, tested to hold from 500 to 800 pounds per linear foot of attachment.
Because many frames and building situations do not allow for screws to be used, the Wet Glaze attachment system is the most common attachment method used for these applications. Wet glaze attachment systems have been thoroughly tested to blast mitigation standards and wind loads. As such, Wet glaze attachment systems are a very practical choice for NiS failure mitigation.
In a Wet Glaze installation, the safety film is installed in a daylight configuration, after which a sizeable bead of structural silicone is installed with a minimum of a 1/2-inch (13 mm) contact with the film and the frame. Heavier pieces of glass may require a bead which uses 3/4-inch (19 mm) or larger contact on both the film and frame system.
Choosing the best system for your glass is based on the weight of the glass and the type of framing system. Contact your Madico sales representative and Madico Technical Services for aid in calculating the bead size.
Spontaneous glass breakage is a very real issue with tempered or thermally toughened glass. Nickel sulfide inclusions, while not the only cause, are by far the most common cause for spontaneous breakage.
Nickel sulfide (NiS) inclusions are small, pencil point size particles or imperfections that may be found within a sheet of glass. These are not an issue in common annealed glass but when tempered/toughened glass they can expand due to thermal cycles, breaking the outer plane of compression, causing the entire sheet of glass to explode.
Although tempered/toughened glass breaks into small light pieces, these pieces may still cause injury to people should they fall out of a building above pedestrians. Through our testing, Madico has seen that portions of many panes of tempered/toughened glass, once broken, will hold together until they impact the ground. This allows large portions of glass to strike with considerable weight and force.
Buildings with spontaneous breaks have used safety films for years to hold a broken sheet of tempered glass in place once NiS failure occurs. Depending on the size and weight of the glass, a 7 or 8 mil safety films is used to hold the glass together. For exterior applications, an exterior grade 7 mil safety film is used.
Due to the break pattern of tempered glass, Madico does not recommend a simple daylight installation of safety film. Daylight installations is when the film is installed on the visible part of the glass. In this type of installation, once spontaneous breakage occurs, the entire sheet of filmed glass may potentially fall from the opening. The small pieces of broken glass encapsulated within the frame are insufficient to hold the filmed glass within the frame.
Madico always recommends the use of an anchoring restraint system for glass with spontaneous breakage. There are many anchoring restraint systems available. Mechanical anchoring such as FrameGard®, which holds the film in place through a combination of screws and tape and an aluminum extrusion. This is by far the safest attachment system, tested to hold from 500 to 800 pounds per linear foot of attachment.
Because many frames and building situations do not allow for screws to be used, the Wet Glaze attachment system is the most common attachment method used for these applications. Wet glaze attachment systems have been thoroughly tested to blast mitigation standards and wind loads. As such, Wet glaze attachment systems are a very practical choice for NiS failure mitigation.
In a Wet Glaze installation, the safety film is installed in a daylight configuration, after which a sizeable bead of structural silicone is installed with a minimum of a 1/2-inch (13 mm) contact with the film and the frame. Heavier pieces of glass may require a bead which uses 3/4-inch (19 mm) or larger contact on both the film and frame system.
Choosing the best system for your glass is based on the weight of the glass and the type of framing system. Contact your Madico sales representative and Madico Technical Services for aid in calculating the bead size.
Safety Glazing Materials Used in Buildings
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and ANSI standards establish the specifications and methods of test for the safety properties of safety glazing materials (glazing materials designed to promote safety and reduce the likelihood of cutting and piercing injuries when the glazing materials are broken by human contact) as used for all building and architectural purposes.
Madico safety and security films have been extensively tested by independent testing facilities and meet safety glazing criteria as defined by CPSC, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Underwriters Laboratories.
Includes a Manufacturer’s Warranty in North America. Ask your dealer for details.
Madico Sunscape Solar safety and security films provides 24-hour, passive protection against common threats. With the application of safety and security films your glazing is secured protecting both occupants and property.
Protects against:
Accidental impacts – Safety Glazing
Intrusion
Vandalism
Severe weather
Benefits:
24/7 Safety & Security: film holds shattered glass together to protect against intruders and vandalism.
Cost Effective: Installing these security film systems is typically more affordable and less disruptive than replacing with windows of similar performance capabilities.
Appearance: provides invisible safety and security.
Extensively Tested
Professionally Installed
In addition, Sunscape safety and security film blocks unwanted ultraviolet ray exposure without changing the appearance of glass.
Madico safety and security films have been extensively tested by independent testing facilities and meet safety glazing criteria as defined by CPSC, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Underwriters Laboratories.
Anchoring System
Madico’s Wet Glaze anchoring system helps increase the performance of daylight applied by transferring the energy from an impact to the entire opening.
In the event of glass breakage, the Wet Glaze Anchoring System, when combined with Suncape Safety window films, is designed to absorb and disburse the energy that the filmed glass is subjected to and transfer the reduced load over the entire glazed opening. By absorbing and distributing the load, the system is designed to retain the filmed glass in the opening and thus reduce the probability of glass fragments and debris from entering the room.
The Wet Glaze system is economically viable in retrofit applications and is built around a triangular sealant joint connecting the film to the supporting framing members. To achieve acceptable performance, a very high-performance sealant must be used. We recommend Dow Corning® 995 Silicone Structural Adhesive or GE SCS2000 SilPruf™ Sealant.
SunScape View Control Films
1. Improved privacy: Safety and security window films can also improve privacy by making it more difficult for people to see inside the building. This can be particularly beneficial for glass located in busy or high-traffic areas.
2. Controlled day time view: View Control film systems can enable the person within the building to see out while limiting or even preventing the person outside the building from see in. These are systems are often called “one way” or “dual reflective”.
Madico Clear and Solar safety and security films provides 24-hour, passive protection against common threats. With the application of safety and security films your glazing is secured protecting both occupants and property.
Protects against:
Accidental impacts – Safety Glazing
Intrusion
Vandalism
Severe weather
Benefits:
24/7 Safety & Security: film holds shattered glass together to protect against intruders and vandalism.
Cost Effective: Installing these security film systems is typically more affordable and less disruptive than replacing with windows of similar performance capabilities.
Appearance: provides invisible safety and security.
Extensively Tested
Professionally Installed
In addition, Madico safety and security film blocks unwanted ultraviolet ray exposure without changing the appearance of glass.
Madico safety and security films have been extensively tested by independent testing facilities and meet safety glazing criteria as defined by CPSC, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Underwriters Laboratories.
Anchoring System
Madico’s Wet Glaze anchoring system helps increase the performance of daylight applied by transferring the energy from an impact to the entire opening.
Wet Glaze
In the event of glass breakage, the Wet Glaze Anchoring System, when combined with Madico Safety window films, is designed to absorb and disburse the energy that the filmed glass is subjected to and transfer the reduced load over the entire glazed opening. By absorbing and distributing the load, the system is designed to retain the filmed glass in the opening and thus reduce the probability of glass fragments and debris from entering the room.
The Wet Glaze system is economically viable in retrofit applications and is built around a triangular sealant joint connecting the film to the supporting framing members. To achieve acceptable performance, a very high-performance sealant must be used. We recommend Dow Corning® 995 Silicone Structural Adhesive or GE SCS2000 SilPruf™ Sealant.
Madico View Control Films
1. Improved privacy: Safety and security window films can also improve privacy by making it more difficult for people to see inside the building. This can be particularly beneficial for glass located in busy or high-traffic areas.
2. Controlled day time view: View Control film systems can enable the person within the building to see out while limiting or even preventing the person outside the building from see in. These are systems are often called “one way” or “dual reflective”.
When a threat is severe, it requires a film product that is manufactured to meet the strictest codes and has the highest levels of testing and accreditation. SafetyShield® film products are available in a range of thicknesses to meet every unique threat level. Solar control options are also available to provide complete protection to occupants. SafetyShield films are sold and installed through certified SafetyShield Premier Partners who will be able to suggest the best film and attachment system to meet your specific threat.
SafetyShield films and proprietary Anchoring Restraint Systems help to delay intrusion caused by acts of terror and civil unrest. These well-engineered safety & security products provide 24/7 passive protection that can be relied on the instant a threat occurs, substantially improving security for all buildings. SafetyShield is installed only by certified Premier Partners who have been thoroughly trained in all aspects of the film and anchoring systems.
SafetyShield film products are available in a range of thicknesses to meet every unique threat level. Solar and view control options are also available to provide complete protection to occupants.
SafetyShield View Control Films
Improved privacy: Safety and security window films can also improve privacy by making it more difficult for people to see inside the building. This can be particularly beneficial for glass located in busy or high-traffic areas.
Controlled day time view: View Control film systems can enable the person within the building to see out while limiting or even preventing the person outside the building from see in. These are systems are often called “one way” or “dual reflective”.
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