Geoshield announced at the company’s dealer forum that it has renewed its five-year distribution agreement with Gulf Coast countries. The company is expanding into 24 new stores that will be open by the end of 2012 and a new line of films is expected to be released in this area sometime in November. Geoshield will [...]

Solutia released financial reports for the first quarter of 2012 and the news for film is good. The net sales for the first quarter is $85 million which is an increase of $9 million from the first quarter in 2011. The company attributes the increase to the Southwall acquisition and strong sales in Asia and [...]

The original indictment filed against Yannick Larose included 16 charges ranging from damaging property to assault. Larose, who served as president of X-Vitres Teintees and was later affiliated with Pelti Vitres Teintees, pled guilty to five of these charges. The court documents obtained by Window Film magazine detail Larose’s relationships with other industry professionals and his alleged [...]

I have been very fortunate to do window film projects all over the United States and in different countries. Being with International Glass Solutions, I have done training and installations in the U.K., as well as installed film on the American Embassy in Brussels, Belgium. Seeing different parts of the world has always been on [...]

Today architects from Kalamazoo and surrounding areas attended a continuing education course provided by West Michigan Glass Coatings of Grand Rapids. The seminar was held at the USGBC’s Southwest Michigan Branch offices. “Does anyone know where window films got their start?” asked Amanda Nawara, Business Development Consultant for West Michigan Glass Coatings. “The product actually [...]

Yannick Larose, president of X-Vitres Teintees, a Quebec window film company, has pled guilty to being the mastermind behind two counts of assault and two counts of aggravated assault. The events took place between 2003 and 2007. Larose also pled guilty to one count of intimidation against two employees of Tech-Hue between 2006 and 2007. [...]

The Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a clarification to the safety regulations relating to a truck’s window visibility that now allows the use of compliant window films on big rigs’ sidelites, according to information from the International Window Film Association (IWFA). “The clarification represents information that impacts millions of [...]

For any of you that travel a commute to work you know what an SUV or a truck can do to your bank account in terms of gas. My husband travels 60 miles to base (where he is a military police officer) and 60 miles back home every weekday. While deployed a few years back [...]

A funny thing happened at the dentist last month—you might get a kick out of this. I’ve been blessed with great teeth all my life but the inevitable happened on a recent checkup—a cracked tooth. Crown me! This was my first-ever crown and it was with a dentist I’ve never seen before. While he was [...]

3M dealers were presented with awards at the company’s Window Film Dealer Conference which took place in San Diego, Calif., this month. More than 200 dealers attended and joined the company in recognizing 3M’s top dealers. Columbia Filters, Inc, of Rutherford, N.J., was recognized as the National Dealer of the Year. Sun Control of Minnesota, [...]