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LANDVAC PASSED ANSI SAFETY GLASS IMPACT TESTING

Recently, LandGlass received a test Impact testing is an important per- retained the high strength, impact
report from Intertek: LandVac has formance testing used to determine resistance, and other safety features
successfully passed the impact testing the safety, reliability and effectiveness of a tempered glass and
defined in the standards for of a tempered glass product under completely meets the impact resist-
architectural safety glazing test, external impact or force. ance requirements in accordance to
ANSI Z97.1-2015 and CPSC 16 By passing this impact test, it the US Architectural Safety Glazing
CFR 1201 (1997). indicates that LandVac has totally Standards.

Intertek is a total qual-
ity assurance provider
to industries world-
wide and a third-party
authoritative interna-
tional inspection, and
certification organiza-
tion. ANSI is short
for American National
Standards Institute,
founded in 1918. It
is the official U.S.
representative to the
International Organi-
zation for Standardiza-
tion (ISO).

Meanwhile, Land
Glass has received
the test reports from
ift, according to
which the U-value of
LandVac is as low as
2
0.4W/ (m ·K) and it
has a weighted sound
isolation of 36 dB.
Besides, LandVac has
passed the U.S. ATI
±7200Pa wind pres-
sure resistance test,
which indicates that it
can withstand level 11
storms.

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