Overview (en)
ENDURIS™ GLASS CORE TECHNOLOGY: Sustainable performance, leading design, and proven durability in shading fabrics
Enduris™ Glass Core technology is a proprietary combination of superior-quality coatings and glass yarns, fully tested production techniques, and proven performance characteristics, which are at the core of all their glass-core shading fabrics. Developed by pioneering weaving partners Helioscreen, Mermet and Hexcelscreen with more than 60 years experience in high-performance sun protection solutions.
Fabrics with Enduris™ Glass Core technology enhance the room aesthetic, provide great outward visibility, and ensure outstanding strength and durability for all shade applications.
Designed and tested for the highest levels of performance, with a wide palette of attractive designs, the fabrics have been installed in offices and executive suites, educational and health-care facilities, public spaces, hotels, restaurants, and residential areas.
An innovative vinyl coating protects the fiberglass, providing additional durability with UV inhibitors, adding flame resistance, and also making the fabric colorfast to light.
Key Features
- Superior coating uniformity and surface aspect
- High resistance to temperature variations
- Naturally fire resistant
- Dimensionally stable - minimal stretching/sagging
- Chemically inert
- Non-rotting
- Low thermal conductivity
- UV inhibitors
- Glass fiber yarns are a natural composite material
- Easy to clean
Material (en)
Material Technology
The durability and stability of Enduris™ technology comes from the inside out, starting with a fiberglass strand that makes it naturally fire resistant, dimensionally stable, and resistant to expansion and stretching due to heat. An innovative vinyl coating protects the fiberglass, providing additional durability with UV inhibitors, adding flame resistance, and also making the fabric colorfast to light.
As a material, glass has many significant benefits that make it good for screen fabrics. Manufacturing and resource benefits include:
- Glass fiber yarns come from natural & abundant materials. Unlike some synthetic compounds based on petroleum
- Glass is essentially a pure mineral and does not easily interact with materials in the environment
- State of the art production methods create finer, smoother yarns, yielding fabrics that look and perform better
- Reduced water consumption during the manufacturing process
Key features
- Glass is lightweight, but extremely strong
- High-performance levels for heat protection
- Strength and stability with elongation and stretching
- High resistance to heat and integral flame resistance
- Suited for installations which require Class A fire ratings
- Meets even the strictest European M1 and B1 standards for fire safety
- Glass is a natural material and is chemically inert
- Glass fiber yarns come from natural & abundant materials
- 57% of PVC coatings are salt-based, consuming less petroleum for manufacture than many other polymers
- Reduced use of non-renewable energy in manufacturing