Hunter Panels is transitioning current inventories of coated glass faced products to a new enhanced coated glass facer. H-Shield CG and H-Shield HD will be manufactured using a premium performance coated glass facer with white on one side of the board and black on the other side. The purpose of this two-sided, two different colored facers is to allow the installer better control of adhesive flash-off times during the application of fully adhered systems. For all other applications, the facer performance is unchanged and either side maybe installed facing up.
Benefits of the enhanced facer include:
- Allows the applicator to speed up or slow down adhesive flash-off time
- Increases surface temperature of the dark facer up to 50°F (10°C) above ambient temperature
- Decreases surface temperature of the light facer up to 10°F (-12°C) below ambient temperature
- Provides up to 2x faster adhesive flash-off on cooler days and up to 4x faster on warmer days when utilizing the dark facer