Bond Takes Control at International Window Coverings Expo 2025
- Blake Williams
- Apr 10
- 3 min read
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Muto Communications
IWCE 2025, April 14-16 (Booth #325)
Palm Beach County Convention Center
West Palm Beach, FL
Bond launches Mate, a water-resistant, hand-held universal remote for outdoor use, and showcases its products at 20 partner exhibits while hosting and participating in motorization seminars.
Cresskill, NJ – April 10, 2025—Bond (IWCE exhibit #325) has become the window fashion channel’s leading way to control and automate motorized window treatments, gas fireplaces, and ceiling fans. This past year, the brand expanded into the outdoors through innovative solutions and partnerships.
Introducing Mate, Bond’s First Hand-Held Remote-Control for the Outdoors
At IWCE Bond unveils Mate™, a water-resistant, 15-channel hand-held remote that brings smart individual, multi-group, and schedule control to motorized pergolas, awnings, shutters, and screens – and all without requiring the use of a bridge.
With Mate users can turn the appliances on-and-off, set positions (including favorites), configure individual and multi-group control, and assign personalized names to the channels. Once setup, Mate becomes smart, aware of time and able to set adaptive schedules. With an MSRP of $289, Mate is set to ship June 2025.
Bond Smart Solutions at 20 Partner Exhibits Across IWCE Show FloorMate and other smart Bond innovations can be seen 20 partner exhibits. This includes Alpha Motors (#501); A-OK (#548); Bon Window Fashions (#350); Bofu (#809); Coulisse (#409); Draper Home (#101); Forest Drapery Hardware (#109); Gaposa (#431); Lafayette (#917); Modern Atomics (#EC-9); Nice (#549); Ronco (#1031); Rowley (#509); Screen Innovations (#418); Shade Revolution (#945); Sol-lux (#609); SunPro (#633); Texton (#211); Two-USA (#421) and Universal Screens (#713).
Bond Supports and Participates in IWCE 2025 Motorization Seminars
Bond is supporting IWCE seminars with both sponsorship (O’D McKewan’s motorization seminars) and participation. The April 15th, 11 AM seminar, “Insights from Leading Manufacturers & Motorization Experts,” will include a Bond executive. In the 2 PM “AI Rising: The Future of Window Treatments” seminar, Bond CTO Chris Merck will discuss how AI is helping companies in the control space improve the user experience and product development.
How Bond Can Collaborate with You
“Bond heads into IWCE 2025 in an extraordinarily strong position, sought after by manufacturers globally. We have also expanded into large-scale commercial and MDU installations through our partnership with Mecho. We invite all trade professionals and manufacturers to visit our exhibit (#325) and learn how we can integrate Bond for you,” says Bond Director of Sales & Strategic Partnerships Daria Fox.
About Bond
Bond is from Olibra, LLC, a privately-owned NJ tech company established in 2016 with a focus of making motorized window coverings, ceiling fans, and gas fireplaces simpler and more delightful to use. The Bond Bridge RF-to-WiFi platform was launched in 2018 with the Bond Bridge. This brought intuitive smartphone control to these appliances. In 2021 came the Bond Bridge Pro for CEDIA installers, bringing expanded capabilities and integration with leading home automation and virtual assistance platforms. 2023 brought the Sidekick for Shades battery-powered wireless keypad and 2024 brought the Breeze Pro smart wind/rain/sunlight sensor, Firefly One Smart Controller for low voltage Outdoor Lighting, and Shield Pro outdoor kit for Bond Bridge Pro. 2025 brings the brand’s first hand-held remote-control for the outdoors, Mate.
(Complete list of compatible motor, automation, and virtual assistance brands here: https://bondhome.io/supported-motorization-brands/) www.bondhome.io
Bond Media Inquiries
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Paul Muto: paul@mutocomm.com
516.662.5374
Richard Frank: richard@mutocomm.com
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