Mantovani Showers
Shower in Cape Town

Mantovani - supplying and fitting Frameless Glass & Shower Doors in the Western Cape.

At Mantovani, we strive to become the preferred supplier of frameless glass and shower doors in the Western Cape. Mantovani is an owner managed business that operates in Cape Town, Boland and West Coast areas of South Africa. The company was started by the current owner in 2005, and has grown to a multi-facet product and service provider, offering a range of glass products and finishes for the comfort and beauty of your home and business. Glass is a high-tech material used for various applications in all spheres of modern life. The float glass process is also known as the Pilkington process, named after the British glass manufacturer Pilkington, which pioneered the technique (invented by Sir Alistair Pilkington) in the 1950s. It is the common glass that tends to break into large, jagged shards. It is used in some end products like double-glazed windows, for example. It is also the basic material that is turned into more advanced products through further processing such as laminating, toughening, coating, etc. Toughened Glass Toughened glass is treated to be far more resistant to breakage than simple float glass, and to break in a more predictable way when it does break, thus providing a major safety advantage in almost all of its applications. Toughened glass is made from annealed glass treated with a thermal tempering process. The different cooling rates between the surface and the inside of the glass produces different physical properties, resulting in compressive stresses in the surface balanced by tensile stresses in the body of the glass. These stresses give toughened glass its increased mechanical strength. When it does break, it shatters into small, regular, typically square fragments rather than long, dangerous shards. Toughened glass has extremely broad application in products both for buildings and for automobiles and transport, as well as other areas. Car windshields and windows, glass portions of building façades, glass sliding doors, balustrading, partitions in houses and offices, shower doors, glass furniture such as table tops, and many other products typically use toughened glass. Toughened glass panels can be manufactured to almost any shape. The glass can also be machined, with holes, bevelled edges etc. Poly Vinyl Butyral (PVB) laminated glass is produced using heat and pressure to sandwich a thin layer of PVB between layers of glass. On occasion, other polymers such as Ethyl Vinyl Acetate (EVA) or Polyurethane (PU) are used. For special applications, Cast in Place (CIP) laminated glass is made by pouring a resin into the space between two sheets of glass that are held parallel and very close to each other. But the interlayer also provides a way to apply several other technologies and benefits, such as colouring, sound dampening, resistance to fire, ultraviolet filtering, and other technologies that can be embedded in or with the interlayer. Laminated glass is used extensively in building and housing products and in the automotive and transport industries. Most building façades and most car windscreens, for example, are made with laminated glass, usually with other technologies also incorporated. Optiwhite is a low-iron extra clear float glass with very high light transmission. It is practically colourless, and the green cast inherent to other glasses is not present. It is therefore ideal for use where glass edges are visible or where a neutral colour is desired.