Mar 27, 2012 | Manufacturers
American Standard Window Film (ASWF) is a division of Erickson International, LLC, and currently makes a variety of window film products for homes, cars, and commercial applications at its production facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company is one of the new kids on the window tinting block, having opened its production facility in September 2009.
American Standard Window Film prides itself on its green efforts at its factory, which is energy saving and produces very little landfill waste. The …
Mar 1, 2012 | Manufacturers
Based in San Diego, California, Solar Gard has been creating window film for homes, buildings, and cars for more than 30 years. The company was recently acquired by Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics – part of building materials manufacturer Saint-Gobain – in October 2011.
Solar Gard currently makes its products in three facilities in California, Belgium, and China, with another facility expected to open in China in 2012. Solar Gard prides itself on its manufacturing process, which includes efforts to produce uniform …
Jan 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
For many homeowners considering placing tint on their windows, one of the significant concerns they may have is how will installing a home window tint affects their view. And let’s face it – if you have a huge window overlooking a fantastic ocean view or an incredible mountain landscape, the last thing you want is something that will impede it.
Thanks to technological advances, today’s home window tints can provide several positive attributes to your home without sacrificing what you …
Nov 24, 2011 | Safety Window Film
One of the reasons why a home, business or car owner may decide to place a film on their windows is to help make the window glass more resilient against shattering. If the glass window is struck and breaks, instead of shattering into flying pieces the shatterproof window film keeps the pieces together.
Shatterproof window film can help protect windows from anything that may cause them to shatter – an intruder’s advances, a flyaway baseball, debris flying from a storm, …
Nov 19, 2011 | Auto Window Tinting, Residential Window Film
While both car window tint and home window film may be manufactured similarly and be used for a lot of the same reasons, there are some important differences.
According to the International Window Film Association, in its simplest sense the films used for car window tint and home window film are composted of a polyester substrate with one side a scratch-resistant coating and the other an adhesive layer with removable liner. The liner is removed and the film is …
