New Trends in Glass Matting Technologies

Contemporaneous trends in the development of technologies for matting glass and products from matted glass are considered. An efficient glass matting technology has been developed using an alternative source of energy—low-temperature plasma. It is demonstrated that a high-quality matt surface of the type ‘frosty matting’ is formed by using iron powders with dispersivity 160 and 450 µm. The microstructure of the matted surface was investigated. Theoretical aspects of matting glass are considered. The technological parameters of matting are determined and the developed technology is shown to be economically efficient.