Even brand new glass can have a defective surface. It can be embedded with microfines from the tempering oven. Or be just plain rough. Both the physical and chemical quality of the surface of brand new glass can be radically different from one plate to the next. Even when dealing with chemically strengthened or annealed glass. To prove this all you have to do is lightly run a penny across a dry clean surface. You will notice that it will either gluide smoothly, or stick at various locations. Also if you were to wet a clean surface with clean pure water you will notice the water sheets over only certain areas of the surface and beads up at other locations. This shows there is a notable difference.
New Glass is a physically and chemically treated glass surface. It can be custom talored so that it has different properties. Easy to clean, stain resistant, scratch resistant, or just hydrophobic and oleophobic. Old or even new glass can be treated. Pricing is by the square foot depending on what treatment is desired. This varies because the procedure for the treatment is also different.
What I personally think is most appealing about this technology is the ease of maintenance cleaning of a "new glass" surface. When a window glass surface is super hydrophobic, rinse water instantly beads and rolls right off. Leaving an ultraclean surface in seconds. Cleaning the outside of windows becomes a breeze. Just soap and rinse. Just like on TV! Except this is real.
Written by Henry Grover Jr
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