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To: firstresponder who wrote (1482)10/25/2025 1:11:24 PM
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Gentex Q3.

Customer interest for dimmable sunroofs and visors continues to grow, and our teams have been working incredibly hard to continue moving this product from single unit production into more mass scale capability. As noted in prior calls, this is an incredibly complex and challenging manufacturing process.

To date, we've been utilizing partners to execute part of the process while we get our larger scale production equipment in-house and operational. The target is to have this in-house operation running in late Q1 to early Q2 2026. As with any new product or process launch, there will be challenges. But with the manufacturing capability we have at Gentex, I remain confident in the team's ability to bring this product into the market in the next 1.5 years.

Josh Nichols
B. Riley Securities, Inc., Research Division

Yes. And then just one follow-up, looking a little bit further out. Regarding the dimmable sunroofs and visors, you talked about, I think you said you expect to have those in market within 18 months, but operationally running in the first half of next year. What's left to be done in terms of achieving commercial viability for those today to really bring those to market? I'm just curious where you are or what's left to do? I know there's a lot of technicals that go into getting that OEM certified and just want a little bit of an update.

Neil Boehm
COO & CTO

Yes. Those are still some of the bigger challenges, the requirements of taking that technology into automotive and meeting the environmental temperature, all of the above process requirements as well as when you have really large pieces of glass with a darkened surface, it's easy to see small issues in the process that the dimming materials put down. So that's the big part of the Q1 into Q2 of next year as we are getting that capability in-house so that we can get better control on that process quality.

So with those, I think those are some of the biggest hurdles that we still got in front of us. There's a lot of little challenges that we fight every day, but the team has been doing a great job keeping those down and trying to get focus on some of these bigger ones.