Window and door manufacturers
A switchable option inside your own line
Clients ask for privacy glass and most window and door manufacturers have to say no, or source it from someone who also sells finished projects. PriWatt supplies the unit and does not compete for the opening: laminated PNLC, PDLC or DLC glass built to your sizes, your shapes and your hardware.
Built to your drawings, not to a catalogue
| What you specify | What we make |
|---|---|
| Panel size | Up to 165 in tall; 72 in wide in PDLC film, 70 in PDLC glass, 57 in PNLC and DLC |
| Shape | Rectangles, curves, and anything the opening requires |
| Hardware | Holes, notches and cut-outs for your handles, hinges and locks |
| Glass make-up | Low-iron, heat-treated or fully tempered, to the thickness the unit needs |
| Mode | Normal — frosted unpowered — or reverse, clear unpowered, in white, grey or bronze |
| Exterior units | The switchable layer inside an insulated unit for facade and window work |
Every unit ships with the isolation transformer and the control that drive it, sized to the run. A panel without them is half a system, and it is not a part you want your customer sourcing separately.
The lead time is the point
Made here
Lamination, electrical assembly and testing under one roof in Pompano Beach, Florida. Not a reseller of imported panels waiting on a container, which is what usually turns a switchable line item into the reason an order is late.
Shop drawings before anything is made
Every project starts with a technical review, so the unit that arrives fits the opening your drawing describes rather than the one it was assumed to describe.
One supplier for both formats
Laminated glass for new units and self-adhesive film for the glass already in a building — from the same plant, so a project with some of each does not have to match two whites from two suppliers.
Certification you can pass on
UL file E514182 for the electrical system and SGCC 9894 for safety glazing, both checkable by number. Your customer’s specifier will ask; the answer is a file number rather than a reassurance.
Which mode to offer
Most manufacturers start with one and add the second when a project needs it.
Normal mode (PDLC) is frosted with no power and clear when switched. It is the mature product, the cheaper one, and the right default for bathrooms, shower enclosures and internal doors — rooms that are private most of the time.
Reverse mode (PNLC) is clear with no power. For a window or a glazed door, that is usually the correct behaviour: the unit looks like glazing until someone asks it not to, it draws nothing in its everyday state, and a power cut leaves the opening transparent rather than white.
The full comparison, with haze, switching, voltage and power draw, is in PDLC vs PNLC, and the ranges per square foot are on pricing.
Questions manufacturers ask
PriWatt is the manufacturer. Installed work goes through certified installation partners, and a unit supplied to you is yours to sell in your own product line.
Yes — that is the route for exterior windows and facades, and it changes what the unit does about solar gain as well as privacy. There is a page on what an IGU build-up changes.
The panel runs on low voltage from an isolation transformer, which ships with it. The transformer’s own supply is a mains connection, made on site by whoever wires the building.
The maximum panel is 165 in tall, and 57 to 72 in wide depending on which product it is. Larger openings are made from more than one panel, and the joint is a design decision worth taking early.
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.
Glass and IGU fabricators
Add a switchable layer to what you already build, with the edge detail solved.
Architects and designers
Specify it with the numbers, the samples and a manufacturer to call.
Become a PriWatt Partner
Tell us what you build, the sizes you work in, and whether you are looking at interior units, exterior, 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.