IMAGE COURTESY LIPPERT Lippert Components this week announced a partnership with SolarWindow Technologies to pursue the integration of SolarWindow’s electricity-generating glass technology into existing Lippert glass products. Lippert, which owns glass components manufacturer Taylor Made, is one of the largest glass products manufacturers in the marine and RV segments.
“This collaboration with SolarWindow marks an opportunity to introduce innovations like electricity-generating glass into Lippert’s existing recreational vehicle, marine and specialty building product markets while further strengthening our commitment to environmental stewardship, which is at the core of everything we do,” Lippert president and CEO Jason Lippert said in a statement.
According to the statement, Lippert consumes more than 330 million square feet of glass annually for manufacturing and supplying windows, tempered and laminated glass products, and components for recreational vehicle, transit, specialty vehicle and other adjacent markets.
SolarWindow is a developer of proprietary transparent, electricity-generating coatings, methods, and other technologies that, when applied to glass and plastic surfaces, are capable of generating electricity by harvesting light energy from sunlight, artificial light and low, shaded or reflected light conditions.
“SolarWindow and Lippert enter this next phase of our relationship with confidence as we address and navigate challenges and opportunities related to supply chain, capital equipment, product integration, human resources and training, and negotiation and execution of future manufacturing, licensing and distribution agreements,” SolarWindow president and CEO Amit Singh said in the statement.
