Glass and IGU fabricators
Add a switchable layer to what you already build
A fabricator asked for switchable glass has three options: turn the enquiry down, buy a finished panel from a company that also sells finished projects, or work with a manufacturer that supplies the switchable unit and stays out of the opening. PriWatt is the third.
Laminate it yourself, or take the panel finished
Film, cut to your panel schedule
PNLC, PDLC or DLC film supplied cut to size for your own line, so the switchable layer goes in where your interlayer already does and the laminating stays your process. The edge treatment and the wiring exit are agreed before it is cut, because both decide how the finished unit can be framed.
View productLaminated panels, made here
The complete switchable lite — film between two panes of architectural safety glass, electrically tested — delivered as a glazing component with a wiring tail, ready for your insulating unit or your framing.
View productWhich route makes sense depends on what your line already does. A fabricator laminating daily usually wants the film; one whose switchable work is occasional usually wants the panel, because a switchable lite is not a good place to learn a new set of parameters.
Either way, the part worth knowing about is the edge. The busbar that distributes power across the panel is where switchable glass fails, and it fails under exactly the conditions a fabricator puts it in: heat, pressure and time. PriWatt anchors it by a patented method that holds the connection as the assembly ages. It is the difference between a switchable unit and a sealed one you have to open again.
Inside an insulated unit
What a switchable layer changes in an IGU: solar gain, HVAC load, and what comes off the facade.
The patented busbar anchoring system
How the connection is secured, and why the edge decides how long a laminated switchable panel lasts.
Patents and certifications
UL file E514182 and SGCC certificate 9894 — the numbers your customer’s specifier will ask for.
A component, specified rather than guessed
Made to your sizes
Up to 165 in tall, and 57 to 72 in wide depending on the product, in any shape, with the holes, notches and cut-outs the assembly needs.
Technical review first
Shop drawings before anything is made — the wiring exit, the edge condition and the tolerances agreed while they are still drawings.
Certification to pass on
SGCC 9894 for safety glazing and UL file E514182 for the electrical system, both checkable by number rather than taken on trust.
Made in the USA
Lamination, electrical assembly and testing in Pompano Beach, Florida — a schedule that can sit inside yours rather than a container that decides it.
Questions fabricators ask
Through a tail at the edge, in a position agreed on the shop drawings before the panel is made. Where it exits decides how the unit can be framed, so it is settled early rather than discovered on the bench.
Yes, and it is the usual route for exterior glazing. The switchable layer sits inside the laminate, and the laminate becomes one lite of the IGU.
Yes. Film is supplied cut to your panel schedule for your own line, as well as as a finished laminated lite. Which route suits you depends on how often your line runs switchable work — tell us on the form and we will go through the parameters for your equipment.
Up to 165 in tall, and 57 to 72 in wide depending on which product it is. Larger openings are made from more than one panel.
PriWatt is the manufacturer. Installed work goes through certified installation partners, and a unit supplied to a fabricator is part of that fabricator’s assembly.
Not quite what you do?
Installers and glaziers
Take on switchable work in your city — trained, certified, and first call for projects in your area.
Window and door manufacturers
Offer a switchable option inside your own line, built to your sizes and your hardware.
Architects and designers
Specify it with the numbers, the samples and a manufacturer to call.
Become a PriWatt Partner
Tell us what you fabricate, the sizes you work in, and whether the switchable unit would go into insulating units, framing, or both. A specialist replies within 24 hours, and the first conversation is technical rather than a price list.
Would rather talk first? Call (833) 333-8556, or send a message.