LEGISLATION SIGNED INTO LAW TODAY IS EXPECTED TO ACCELERATE THE ADOPTION OF SPD-SMARTGLASS FOR ARCHITECTURAL AND AUTOMOTIVE SMART WINDOWS

Woodbury, New York and Tel Aviv/Jaffo, Aug. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today US President Biden signed into law legislation that is expected to accelerate the adoption of SPD-SmartGlass technology into both the architectural and automotive industries.

The Dynamic Glass Act extends meaningful investment tax credits to electrically-controlled variable tint glass. Research Frontiers is the industry leader and inventor of fast-responding Suspended Particle Device (SPD) light-control technology for use in smart windows and other products. Gauzy is the industry leader in material sciences for smart windows.

The two companies started doing business together as part of the growing SPD industry which uses Research Frontiers patented light-control technology. Gauzy is a leading manufacturer of SPD light-control film, specializing in coating, and proprietary technology in electronics, control systems, and specialty interlayers and assembly processes. The company sells SPD-SmartGlass products and technologies for the architecture, automotive, aeronautics, mass transit, and boating industries. Gauzy’s SPD LCG (light control glass) films are produced at Gauzy’s factory near Stuttgart, Germany using chemicals and nanoparticles that Gauzy produces in Israel.

Imagine a light-control film that allows users to instantly change the film’s tint from clear to dark or anything in between at the touch of a button, in response to commonly-used sensors, or integrated as part of a building’s or vehicle’s control system. This SPD-Smart film uses specially-engineered nanoparticles suspended and distributed throughout this flexible film to accomplish this. While it might sound futuristic, it has been used reliably to replace aircraft window shades since 2001, in tens of thousands of vehicles by Mercedes and McLaren beginning in 2011, and is scheduled for introduction on upcoming car models from Cadillac and other auto makers. It also was featured in yachts, cruise ships, trains, busses and museums (to protect priceless artwork and collectibles from visible light damage), and architectural applications such as a 10 thousand square foot roof at the World’s Fair in Milan in 2015.