Cresskill, NJ – April 17, 2025 – At this week’s International Window Coverings Expo 2025 (West Palm Beach, Florida), smart control brand Bond had a huge presence. The brand launched Mate, its water-resistant, hand-held universal smart remote-control for pergolas, awnings, shades and more, had products on display at 20 partner exhibits, and hosted and participated in key motorization seminars.
Mate Hand-Held Universal Remote for Outdoor Commercial and Residential Settings
Mate™ is 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 Featured at 20 Partner Exhibits Across IWCE Show Floor
Mate and other smart Bond innovations were seen at 20 partner exhibits. This included 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 Supported and Participated in IWCE 2025 Motorization Seminars
Bond supported IWCE seminars with both sponsorship (O’D McKewan’s motorization seminars) and participation. Bond CEO Zohar Shinar and CTO Chris Merck were panel guests in the “Insights from Leading Manufacturers & Motorization Experts” and “AI Rising: The Future of Window Treatments” seminars.
Bond is in a Position of Strength
The Bond Bridge Pro RF-to-WiFi bridge is compatible with dozens of shade motor brands and home automation systems. These past several years it has earned recognition as the window fashion channel’s leading way to control and automate motorized window treatments, gas fireplaces, and ceiling fans. And this past year the brand expanded into the outdoors by way of innovative solutions and partnerships.
“Bond went into IWCE 2025 in an extraordinarily strong position, sought after by manufacturers globally. We have also now expanded into large-scale commercial and MDU installations by way of our partnership with Mecho. We are thrilled that so many trade professionals and manufacturers visited both our exhibit — and those of our partners — to experience the latest from Bond,” 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: Muto Communications
Paul Muto: [email protected], 516.662.5374
Richard Frank: [email protected], 949.637.0700
