What are Solar Screens?

Solar Screens are the most effective window treatments that you can apply to your home for lowering energy bills by stopping the heat transfer through your windows and doors while still maintaining your view. Window film, interior products, or awnings cannot compete with the efficiency rating of TEXTILENE® solar screens.

Solar Screens are exterior full-length screens that cover the entire glass of your windows and doors.

Solar Screens work in three different ways:

1. Shading Coeffiency - the amount of shade created between the solar screen and exterior pane of glass.
2. Reflectivity - reflecting the direct sun's rays of light off of the screen, defusing the amount of direct sun's rays.
3. Absorption - the heat that is absorbed and held into the screen material itself and then dispersed back into the air away from the glass.

The following graphs show the difference between the amount of heat transfer that comes through the glass. The red line is the amount of BTUs that comes through without any protection, where the blue line is showing how many BTUs come through with the TEXTILENE® solar screening under the same conditions. (Black 90% was the screen used for the test.)

Why Twitchell TEXTILENE®?

Since 1928, Twitchell has offered only the highest quality custom fabrics for the world's leading manufacturers. In their 500,000 square foot plant located on 34 acres in the historic town of Dothan, Alabama, Twitchell today manufactures a wide variety of woven, non-woven, and knit textiles. They also coat and laminate for the furnishings, safety, packaging and medical fields with virtually any resin or additive.

Twitchell is also currently working hand in hand with new technologies, specifically in the automotive and bulk packaging industries, to make more and more of their components recyclable.

TEXTILENE® is made of PVC coated woven polyester non-stretch yarn.

TEXTILENE® is flame retardant, heat sealable, mildew resistant and stable under either hot or cold temperatures. Applications for TEXTILENE® include indoor/outdoor casual furniture, umbrellas, safety fabrics (including orange safety vests), barriers, erosion control, cots, window shades, solar screens, and more.

TEXTILENE® is only made out of woven polyester because of its proven durability and performance qualities, as compared to fiberglass based solar screen products. Fiberglass based products do not have the ability to hold their color and the stability of the product itself over a reasonable period of time.

We do not use fiberglass in any of our solar screening products.

Twitchell TEXTILENE® is the #1 solar screening on the market today for quality, durability, and performance for the Texas Heat.

Don't be fooled by cheap imitations.

Twitchell TEXTILENE®, when only the original will do!

Lone Star Solar Screens™ offers all brands of solar screen with 80% to 90% heat blockage. We also carry 3/8" and 1" frame in 24 gauge aluminum. All our products are equally priced allowing Lone Star Solar Screens&trade to be your one stop custom built solar screen super center.

Our color choices are:

Black	Brown	Desert Sand	Gray
Beige	White	Buffalo	Shark