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Argil Sees Opportunities for Smart Windows in Automotive, Architectural Markets

Company combines electrochromic polymer materials, roll-to-roll printing to manufacture smart window films.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

The ability to harness solar energy is of great interest to consumers and companies alike. If a company can find an attractive, inexpensive and efficient way to collect the sun’s rays, it will cut energy consumption. If the end consumer can reduce energy bills in a cost effective manner, there will be a market.   One promising area is the field of smart windows. Sunlight reaching films on windows can be converted into energy. High-volume manufacturing techniques would be needed to help bring s...

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