About
We tested it on customers' cars for six years first
HAUT started in 2017. The first production roll came off the line in 2020 — and then went nowhere near a customer for six years. It went to a closed network of partner shops instead, on one condition: tell us everything that goes wrong.
- Work starts on the film
- 2017
- First production roll
- 2020
- In a closed test network
- 6 yr
- Open sales, United States
- 2026
Why we waited
Protection film fails slowly, and only outdoors
Every failure that matters in this product — yellowing, cracking, edge lift, delamination — takes years to appear, and appears differently depending on where the car lives. There is no lab test that compresses that.
A film can pass every bench test on the first day and still go amber on a white hood in its fourth summer. The industry knows this, which is why films are sold with ten-year warranties written by people who have watched their product for two.
We took the slower route. From 2020, HAUT film went only to shops we knew, who agreed to install it on real customer cars and report back — the good installs and, more usefully, the bad ones. Different states, different climates: heat, coastal salt, high UV, freeze-thaw.
Six years later the film was still behaving the way it behaved in year one. That is the point at which we were willing to put a 10-year warranty behind it and sell it openly — January 2026, starting in New Jersey.
It is also why every product page on this site publishes measured numbers with the test method beside them. We spent six years collecting data. Hiding it would be an odd thing to do next.
What the film is made to
The specification each film is built to, and the warranty behind it. Its measured performance publishes film by film as the US laboratory reports come in.
| Thickest film | 210 µm / 8.3 milMaster Plus |
|---|---|
| Everyday clear film | 195 µm / 7.7 milMaster |
| Satin and interior | 160 µm / 6.3 milMist · Interior |
| Warranty | 10 years |
Timeline
How we got here
- 2017
HAUT starts
Work begins on a protection film built around what installers actually complain about, rather than around what was easy to manufacture.
- 2020
The first roll
The first production roll comes off the line. It does not go on sale.
- 2020–2025
Six years in a closed network
The film goes only to a small network of partner shops, on the condition that they report back. Six years of real installs, in every climate those shops work in — heat, salt, UV, freeze-thaw — before a single roll is sold openly.
- January 2026
Open sales, starting in New Jersey
With six years of field data behind it, HAUT film goes on open sale in the United States, beginning in New Jersey and expanding shop by shop.
How we work
We make the film, and we put it on cars ourselves
We are not a brand that licenses someone else's film. We make it, we cut it, and we put it on cars — which is why the rest of the business looks the way it does.
We install every week
Ferraris, Porsches, customer cars with deadlines. The people who write our patterns are the people who apply them, and the ones who teach our courses.
We built our own software
HAUT Software exists because the software the industry runs on was built for sign shops. Ours is under 10 MB, runs on Mac, and does nothing a film shop does not need.
We certify the people who install it
The 10-year warranty applies to certified shops only. That is not gatekeeping — it is the only way a warranty on a hand-applied product means anything.
We publish what we measure, and only that
A performance number goes on a page only once it has been measured on the film we sell, with its ASTM method beside it. In October 2026 we took down every figure that did not meet that bar, and the pages say so.
We say what is not ready
Ceramic coating, marine film, surface film and window tint are all in development for 2027. They have pages, they have waiting lists, and they have no invented specifications.
We work where the car is
An enclosed transport trailer and a heavy-duty truck. Cars are collected, wrapped and returned when a customer cannot bring the car to a bay.
The shop
The bay the field reports came out of
A film brand that installs: cars booked in, filmed, and handed back — the same bay the field reports came out of.
The position
Fewer shops, better film, on purpose
HAUT is built to supply a small number of shops with the best film we can make, not to sell to the whole market. The film spent 6 years in a closed network of partner shops before a roll was sold openly. It is sold only to shops HAUT has certified — one per 250,000 residents, no two closer than 8 miles — and the 10-year warranty follows that certification. HAUT installs the film itself, at one studio that counts against the same cap as any dealer. A performance number is published only once it has been measured on the film we sell, with the method beside it; until then the row is blank rather than estimated. That makes HAUT a more closed brand than most in this category, on purpose: fewer bays, each one trained on this film, is the only way a 10-year warranty on a hand-applied product means anything.
Most brands in this category measure success by the number of shops carrying the roll. We measure it by whether every car that leaves a certified bay is a car we would put our name on — and that number only stays true while the network is small enough to know.
The six policies behind that — the closed test years, the territory arithmetic, our own studio inside it, certification before warranty, methods beside numbers, a person reading every application — each have a page of their own.
Where we are
Based in New Jersey
HAUT Protection Film Inc. specifies, warrants and ships from Hackensack, New Jersey. Open sales began here in January 2026 and the certified network is growing outward shop by shop rather than all at once — because certifying an installer properly takes longer than signing one up.
If there is no certified shop near you yet, tell us where you are and we will point you at the closest one.