Fortrex™, Cooper Standard's proprietary elastomer, is a unique chemistry platform yielding flexible low-weight materials.
Fortrex™ is inherently colorless and stable against UV exposure and most chemicals. This highly tunable thermosetting material – which processes like a thermoplastic – features a very low compression set while maintaining a high degree of elastic behavior.
FortrexTM offers a wide spectrum of performance properties with an environmentally-friendly footprint.
Generated from our employee-driven i³ Innovation Process, the Fortrex™ chemistry platform is creating new levels of performance and providing solutions to challenges in several key industries.
Winner of the 2018 Automotive News PACE Award, Fortrex™ offers weight savings of up to 30 percent versus traditional EPDM and a remarkably low carbon footprint across the entire material and production chain. Additionally, the chemistry can be modified for a broad range of applications and performance solutions for a diverse set of industrial markets.
