OPENING DAY AT CES REVEALS NEW PRODUCERS, USERS, AND WAYS TO CONTROL AND USE SPD-SMART GLASS

Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research Frontiers Inc. (Nasdaq: REFR), the inventor of patented SPD-Smart light control technology, its licensee Israel-based material science company Gauzy Ltd., and their customers showed 175 thousand attendees at this year’s CES amazing new ways to benefit from SPD-SmartGlass.

SPD-Smart light control film, invented and patented by Research Frontiers, is a key component in SPD-SmartGlass products. This film allows users to instantly, precisely and uniformly control the shading of glass or plastic products, either manually or automatically.

Joseph M. Harary, President and CEO of Research Frontiers, observed: “During the press conferences at CES, the theme from every major automotive and consumer electronic company was clear: how and where we live and work, and how we get to our destination are needed to improve health and wellness, safety, comfort, and in order to reduce carbon emissions, congestion, and energy consumption. SPD-SmartGlass shown here for the automotive, architectural and consumer electronics industries at CES touches on all of these major themes with clear benefits to society.”

People visiting CES no longer have to imagine the benefits of SPD-SmartGlass:

• Save energy and bring beneficial daylight into your Rivian pickup truck, SUV or commercial delivery vehicle. Press a button or simply speak to your car to instantly switch the tint of your sunroof glass.
   
• Turn a clear piece of glass into a high-definition OLED television or projection display on your wall, in your furniture, or at concerts and sporting or other events, or as part of retail displays and store windows.
   
• Control the tint of your windows, sunroofs and sunvisors to reduce heat, light or glare on demand or automatically. This can increase the driving range of electric vehicles by up to 5.5% and reduce CO2 emissions by up to four grams per kilometer, and reduce air conditioner compressor sizes by 40%.

Eyal Peso, CEO of Gauzy, (Tech East Westgate Booth #1129) continued: “SPD-SmartGlass has clear benefits in the large and diverse industries represented here at CES. To make it easy to incorporate in the emerging areas of new mobility and smart cities, it has to be reliable, affordable, and high-performance. Our new factory opened several weeks ago in Stuttgart can achieve these requirements, with the ability to produce one million square meters annually of SPD-Smart light control film up to 1.8 meters wide. Designed for the expanding needs of customers for SPD-SmartGlass, the machine offers various roll widths to reduce costs, and can offer laser patterning for custom designs with invisible lines when transparent. You can see SPD-Smart technology throughout CES and we want to particularly thank our automotive customers for showing our SPD-SmartGlass technology here at CES. We also invite architects, automotive designers and other industry professionals to visit our booth to see the large panoramic SPD sunroof and high definition projection displays using our LCG technology.”