ABC Sun Control’s Solar Window Tinting Films offer some of the best ways to go green with solar energy conservation ratings as high as 80% for heat and glare reduction, with a UV reduction rate of 99.9%. The energy reducing efficiency of our solar films are unmatched for building energy and home energy reduction.

Solar Energy Window Films
Our Solar Window Tinting Films provide green energy by reducing operating costs through a sustainable glass upgrade. Our Window tint lowers your carbon foot print and energy costs by reducing the shading coefficient, emissivity and solar heat gain coefficient of your building's glazing. Improving your building envelope performance, energy management and energy conservation can all be attained through the application of ABC Sun Control Energy Saver Window Films.
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LEED Credits EB
Architectural Films and LEED Certification
Window films have been used for many years, primarily for their ability to reduce solar heat gain and save energy. With the advent of green building and sustainable development standards, window films can now play an important part in green building certification, such as LEED for Existing Buildings.

• LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
• LEED EB – LEED for Existing Buildings

Window films can assist with obtaining up to 7 LEED Certification Points in the following areas:
• Light Pollution Reduction (1 pt)
• Optimizing Energy Performance (1-3 pts)
• Improving Thermal Comfort (1 pt)
• Providing Daylighting and Views (1-2 pts)
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3M Dusted & Frosted Crystal Films
When combined with computer cutting technology, frosted films can be quickly and simply cut to reproduce complex designs and logos or even straightforward lettering either individually or for mass production. 3M’s frosted films are suitable for internal and external applications to glass, acrylic, and polycarbonate surfaces. Frosted films provide a fast, efficient and economical alternative to traditional glass etching or sandblasting.
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3M Fasara Films
Fasara films, made of thin, durable polyester with a decorative matte surface, are perfect for privacy, decorative and architectural applications. Intended for use on interior glass and the inside surface of exterior windows, Fasara films can easily be used to create a custom solution for any corporate, retail or residential environment.
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Decorative Window Films
Decorative Window Films are the perfect application for Conference Rooms, Lobbies, Retail Environments, Residential Settings, Private Offices, Glass Partitions, and wherever there is a need for Decorative Privacy.
Our Decorative Window Films are available in multitudes of different patterns and shades and are easily removed and replaced to update the appearance at a later time. Now any flat glass surface can be turned into a work of art, be it an office, restaurant, den, bathroom or child's room. SOLYX ® Films diffuse light without appreciably cutting down the ambient light. As a result, any existing window can be converted to privacy glass in a multitude of attractive patterns.
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Safety & Security Films
To help reduce your chances of loss and add to your peace of mind, ABC Sun Control has a new dimension of safety and security window films. The unique technology combines multiple, micro-thin layers of film to create a stronger, more impenetrable safety and security film for unmatched levels of performance. These new safety and security films create a tough, durable, tear and penetration-resistant shield that bonds to the inside of your windows for protection. The film holds the glass together to dramatically reduce the chance of glass shards from falling or flying out - even under direct forces from winds or impacts from flying objects or heavy devices used for breaking and entering. Additionally the application of our safety film can upgrade annealed glass to meet ansi 97.1 safety standard, annealed glass to tempered glass.
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Anti-Graffiti Films
ABC anti-graffiti films provide a sacrificial clear skin that offers an inexpensive solution to the costly problem of replacing vandalized storefront glass and public bathroom mirrors susceptible to tagging and graffiti. It has proved especially valuable in downtown areas where people congregate for bus stops, etc. Sound Transit has utilized our graffiti films on the Light Rail system to protect glass and stainless steel.
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Opaque and Blackout Films
ABC opaque films provide privacy, as well as a great solution to problem areas in commercial settings where unsightly dividers, shelves and the back side of framed walls can be seamlessly covered over giving a uniform look to any building.
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Signal Defense Security Films
RF and IR signals leakage can be blocked by deploying LLumar Signal Defense SD 10000 Security Film on windows and glass portions of the building, offering upwards of 35 dB attenuation to wireless signals. If wireless signals are not accessible to others, then miscues with respect to LAN encryption, authentication, VPN, and firewall rules can still be protected until they are corrected.
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Window Film Warranties
All of our window film installations are backed by commercial and residential warranties.
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Storefront Graphics
ABC Sun Control specializes in storefront graphics on glass. Using 3M Vinyl, our graphics department can create the perfect look for your storefront, conference room, or company vehicles.
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Solar Shades
Solar Shades offer performance and protection benefits combined with the opportunity to conserve on energy costs- all while preserving a view of the outside.
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From Wikipedia:

Tacoma was inhabited for thousands of years by American Indians, predominantly the Puyallup people, who lived in settlements on the delta of the Puyallup River and called the area Squa-szucks. It was visited by European and American explorers, including George Vancouver and Charles Wilkes, who named many of the coastal landmarks.

In 1852 a Swede named Nicolas Delin constructed a sawmill powered by water on a creek near the head of Commencement Bay, but the small settlement that grew up around it was abandoned during the Indian War of 1855-1856. In 1864, pioneer and postmaster Job Carr, a Civil War veteran and land speculator who hoped to profit from the selection of Commencement Bay as the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad, built a cabin (a replica of Job Carr's cabin, which also served as Tacoma's first post office, was erected in "Old Town" in 2000 near the original site), and later sold most of his claim to developer Morton McCarver (1807-1875), who named his project Tacoma City. The name derived from the indigenous name for Mount Rainier, deriving from the Puyallup tacobet, "mother of waters".

Tacoma was incorporated on November 12, 1875. Its hopes to be the "City of Destiny" were stimulated by selection in 1873 as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, thanks to lobbying by McCarver, future mayor John Wilson Sprague, and others. The transcontinental link was effected in 1887, but the railroad built its depot on "New Tacoma", two miles (3 km) south of the Carr-McCarver development. The two communities grew together and joined. The population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890. Rudyard Kipling visited Tacoma in 1889 and said it was "literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest".

George Francis Train was a resident for a few years in the late 1800s. In 1880, he staged a global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote the city. A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start/finish line.

What came to be known as "Tacoma method" was used in November 1885 to expel several thousand Chinese peaceably living in the city. As described by the account prepared by the Chinese Reconciliation Project, on the morning of November 3, 1885, "several hundred men, led by the mayor and other city officials, evicted the Chinese from their homes, corralled them at 7th Street and Pacific Avenue, marched them to the railway station at Lakeview and forced them aboard the morning train to Portland, Oregon. The next day two Chinese settlements were burned to the ground."

The discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898 led Tacoma's prominence in the region to be eclipsed by the booming development of Seattle.

Downtown, early 20th century

During a 30-day power shortage in the winter of 1929/1930, Tacoma was provided with electricity from the engines of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington.

In 1935 Tacoma received national attention when George Weyerhaeuser, nine-year-old son of prominent lumber industry executive J.P. Weyerhaeuser, was kidnapped while walking home from school. FBI agents from Portland handled the case, in which payment of a ransom of $200,000 secured release of the victim. Four persons were apprehended and convicted. The last to be released was paroled from McNeil Island in 1963; George Weyerhaeuser went on to become chairman of the Board of the Weyerhaeuser Company.
In 1951, an investigation by a state legislative committee revealed widespread corruption in Tacoma's government, which had been organized commission-style since 1910. Voters approved a mayor/city-manager system in 1952.

Tacoma featured prominently in the garage rock sound of the mid-1960s with bands including The Wailers and The Sonics; the surf rock band The Ventures were also from Tacoma.

The first local referendums in the U.S. on computerized voting occurred in Tacoma in 1982 and 1987. On both occasions, voters rejected 3-1 the computer voting systems that local officials sought to purchase. The campaigns, organized by Eleanora Ballasiotes, a conservative Republican, focused on the vulnerabilities of computers to fraud.

In 1998, Tacoma installed a high-speed fiber optic network throughout the community. The municipally owned power company wired the city of 187,000 people, making Tacoma America's #1 wired city.

Tacoma struggled with crime in its Hilltop neighborhood in the 1980s and early 1990s.[15] The problems have declined in recent years as neighborhoods have enacted community policing and other policies. Mayor Bill Baarsma is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition,[16] a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets." The coalition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Beginning in the early 1990s, Tacoma has taken steps to revitalize itself and its image, especially downtown.

The University of Washington established a branch campus in Tacoma in 1990. The same year, Union Station (Tacoma) was restored. The Museum of Glass opened in downtown Tacoma in 2002, showing glass art from the region and around the world. It includes a glassblowing studio.

Tacoma's downtown Cultural District is the site of the Washington State History Museum (1996) and the Tacoma Art Museum (2003). America's Car Museum is currently breaking ground in Tacoma. The glass and steel Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center opened in November 2004.

Downtown Tacoma has a thriving Theatre District, anchored by the 89-year-old Pantages Theater. The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts manages the Pantages, the Rialto Theater, and the Theatre on the Square. Other attractions include the Grand Cinema and the Temple Theatre.