Abstract: A hollow plastic strip is placed in a bending device. The bend point is heated. The strip is bent and plastic materials is introduced into the bent area on both sides of this area to reinforce it. The hollow plastic strip with reinforced corners can be used as a spacer in multi-pane insulating glazing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spacer for an insulating glazing assembly. The spacer has two mutually parallel extending contact surfaces for the respective glass panes and an adhesion surface facing away from the interior space between the glass panes. The adhesion surface connects the two contact surfaces. The spacer includes a metal layer disposed on the adhesion surface. The metal layer is cemented to the adhesion surface, and the amount of short-fibred glass-fibers in the plastic is selected such that the coefficient of thermal expansion of the base body is adapted to the thermal expansion of the metal-layer.