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2007-07-29 News Release
GE Plastics Thermoclear Glazing for Stadiums and Arenas GE Plastics supplies the roofs of three stadiums under construction for the UEFA Euro 2008T football championship with Lexan Thermoclear sheet.
This versatile thermoplastic glazing material, which has been used in arena roofing and other glazing for more than 25 years, delivers a unique combination of advantages in roofing for large, complex structures like stadiums: light weight, high impact resistance, and the ability to be easily formed into compact shapes. "Many demands are placed upon new sports stadiums and arenas, including safety, comfort, durability and design excitement," said Michel van Acht, global product manager for Lexan Thermoclear Sheet, GE Plastics. "By choosing high-performance Lexan Thermoclear sheet, designers and architects can achieve the clarity of glass while overcoming its drawbacks of heavy weight, design restrictions and fragility. The properties of Lexan Thermoclear can be enhanced with special coatings and tints for aesthetics, excellent weathering performance, improved light transmission, and easy maintenance."
Lexan Thermoclear sheet from GE Plastics is an impact-resistant, multi-wall polycarbonate (PC) glazing material. It features a proprietary surface treatment on one or both sides that provides excellent resistance against degradation from UV radiation, while transmitting visible light very well. It withstands high wind and snow loads, and storms. The multi-wall construction of Lexan Thermoclear sheet also ensures excellent thermal insulation. It is available in X-structure and rectangular -structure configurations, and a variety of special coatings and finishes to address special challenges: - Lexan Thermoclear Easy Clean sheet products feature a patented hydrophobic
coating that offers self-cleaning properties.
Compared to glass, Lexan Thermoclear sheet from GE Plastics is significantly lighter in weight while offering high stiffness and more than 250 times the impact resistance to reduce the risk of breakage from wind, hail, and other extreme weather, as well as vandalism. Further, unlike glass, this material can easily be cold-formed into many different shapes and configurations. Beginning with its first application in a stadium in Split, Croatia in 1979, Lexan Thermoclear sheet has been selected for several Olympic arenas, including the Barcelona and Sydney facilities, as well as six stadiums that hosted the UEFA Euro 2004T football championship in Portugal. Currently, it is being used for the roofs of three stadiums for the UEFA Euro 2008T football championship: Wankdorf stadium in Bern, Switzerland, and Klagenfurt and Salzburg stadiums in Austria. The Wankdorf facility will feature 4,000 sq. meters of Lexan Thermoclear SunXP sheet, and the Austrian stadiums will be glazed with Lexan Thermoclear sheet. Lexan sheet glazing materials can help to deliver measurable return on investment through ease of installation; lower insurance costs through resistance to break-ins, weather damage, and vandalism; and less need for replacement due to UV degradation, weathering, and breakage. Most of these products are covered by a minimum 10-year limited written warranty against excessive yellowing, loss of light transmission, and loss of strength due to weathering. In addition to roofing and escalator enclosures, GE Plastics' Thermoclear sheet products have been used in separation walls, dugouts, balconies, walkway enclosures, and entranceways. * Lexan, Thermoclear, and LNP are trademarks of General Electric Company.
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