A New Way to Make Better Windows And We've Just Proved It Works
That's the short version. For anyone who wants the longer one, here it is:
When Cody first partnered with Hybridized, the challenge was clear: take a genuinely novel idea and make it manufacturable in a real production environment, running at industrial tolerances, handling materials that no automated glass line had touched before.
The material at the centre of Hybridized's concept is ultra-thin foil to replace the conventional 4–6 mm inter-layer glass in triple-glazed units. That difference in thickness is also a difference in behaviour. Film this thin is flexible where glass production lines expect rigidity. The handling of flexible materials, the tensioning, the registration, the integration into an insulated glass unit without defect or deformation, was the engineering challenge that needed to be solved before anything else could move forward.
This type of glass presents a positive shift in the building industry, delivering better thermal performance at a fraction of the weight of conventional triple-glazed units. Until now, that process has remained largely manual. Workable at small scale, but slow, inconsistent, and with no clear path to volume production. Automating it has been the core of what Cody has been developing and once complete, Hybridized will make this automation available on production lines at scale.
Over the past year, the thermal film handling process has been developed and tested, and the results confirm that it works. Flexible materials can be handled and processed consistently and repeatably, at the speeds that industrial production demands.
This timing of this is fitting as Hybridized recently signed a long-term strategic partnership with NorDan, one of Northern Europe's leading window manufacturers, and secured a second round of investment tied to technical milestones. The production process being validated is one of those milestones.
What comes next is scaling. The automated production unit is designed to run as part of a real manufacturing environment which is compact, modular, and adaptable to both new and existing lines. Getting from a validated process to a production-ready system is its own body of work, and that's where the team’s focus is now.
More to come.
Magnus is our Chief Business Development Officer, and with his experience in both mechanical design, automation, project management, and sales, he has full control over what Cody can deliver. He also delves deep into the Machinery Directive, CE marking, and harmonized standards to ensure that what we deliver complies with laws and regulations.
