Custom Engineered Seals for Louvers and Dampers

Delivering highly effective, purpose-built seals, with accelerated speed to market

Cooper Standard can help with designing an optimal sealing solution for your next louver or damper development project, as well as any other mission-specific seals needs related to HVAC equipment. We partner with you to create world-class sealing solutions that deliver optimal performance, and added assembly and installation benefits. 3d models of hvac parts

As a complete solutions provider, Cooper Standard brings a multitude of core competencies to any custom engineered sealing design and development partnership, including: digital simulation and virtual validation, extensive laboratory resources and world-class materials knowledge.

With custom or standard products, such as blade, jamb and axe seals, as well as functioning capabilities like high and low temperature resistance and low leakage rates, we work with your team to solve opportunities and challenges for whatever your application demands. Learn more about how else we can help aid your team for optimal HVAC equipment.

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Your Partner in Design and Validation

Digital Simulation and Virtual Validation

Cooper Standard engineers are leading the way in deploying computer simulation and validation tools such as finite element analysis to optimize the seal design and development process. By simulating your product's performance, we ensure that requirements, such as leak protection, compression load deflection, temperature resistance and vibration controls are met.

Enhancing Time-to-Market with In-House Testing

Cooper Standard maintains a host of highly specialized testing and validation equipment, speeding up the custom seal design and development process. Our testing capabilities include:

Thermal Analysis
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy
Compression Load Deflection
Adhesion Force Tests
Sliding Resistance Tests
Reverse Engineering

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Meeting a Spectrum of Certifications and Regulations

Cooper Standard has many high-performance materials that meet stringent UL certifications and environmental regulations. Our engineers specify materials that help your custom engineered seal get fast approval.

UL746
UL555S
UL94
Reach
RoHS

Our experts on staff help ensure that louvers and other components effectively meet AMCA class 1A, ASHRAE Standard 90.1 and other demands. Further, our manufacturing facilities are all ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 with design certified.

Materials Compounded In-House

Cooper Standard possesses an extensive array of rubber and thermoplastic materials within the industry, ensuring our collective capability to discern the best material for each customer’s engineered sealing design project. We compound our materials in-house, and offer specialties such as color matching seals to the desired blade with a high degree of accuracy.

Does your application need silicone, rubber or plastic? Explore the science behind the selection process.

The Difference Between Rubber and Plastic | EPDM vs. Silicone

EPDM

Cooper Standard ISG has the expertise to work with EPDM materials of all kinds, effectively building in the desired properties for any louver and damper application. EPDM options range from soft to firm, and include a light-density sponge for weight reduction. See more about our EPDM materials and how we can optimize applications with high-quality rubber.

Silicone

Often specified for high-temperature applications, silicone is the go-to material to keep heat and dust protected from louver and damper applications. Cooper Standard ISG expertise can help develop a seal with optimum properties for the most severe conditions. Learn more about our silicone properties and capabilities.

Thermoplastics

Cooper Standard ISG engineers can help you develop a superior cost/performance value story with our in-house thermoplastic material expertise, including polypropylene, polyethylene, nylon, Santoprene, and Fortrex™. Learn more about our thermoplastic materials and how they can improve your next project.

Accelerate Installation and Assembly with Value-Added Capabilities

At Cooper Standard ISG, we look for opportunities to optimize assembly efficiencies, reduce assembly costs, improve ergonomics and more. Whatever the need, Cooper Standard ISG can be a go-to partner for adding value in strategic and innovative ways.

Adhesive Laminating

Attaching high-performance, pressure-sensitive adhesive strips to both EPDM and silicone seals provides fast and easy installation at your facility. Learn more about how to choose the rubber adhesives that best fit your needs.

Dual-Durometer Seals

Seals combined with two or more materials are known to provide ease of assembly and deliver optimum compression, deflection, and other performance properties. See more about our custom extrusion solutions.

Custom Color

Seals are not only available in black, but can be extruded in other colors, such as gray, white, and brown for advanced aesthetics for windshield trim.

Custom Cutting

We can cut your extrusions to the exact length needed, as well a precision notch or punch seals to fit over bolts and other features in your fixture.

Custom Splicing

Cooper Standard ISG can create custom o-rings and other continuous seals by utilizing high-quality splicing processes, such as adhesives, heat splicing and transfer molding to help save assembly time and ensure tight tolerance and accuracy.

Push-Pin Seals

An alternative to adhesives in some applications, seals can be produced with precisely spaced pins for fast and easy assembly.

Specialty Engineering Solutions

Through leveraging advanced technologies, as well as a team of experts, we provide a range of comprehensive solutions that are tailored to meet diverse sealing requirements with utmost precision. These include:

Molded Products

For large and/or intricate profiles, ISG offers extensive expertise in molding rubber and plastic seals and gaskets, using processes including compression molding, transfer molding, injection molding and more.

Rubber To Metal Bonding

A complex process demanding tight tolerances, specialized materials and processing expertise, rubber to metal bonding can enable a host of performance advantages including vibration damping, longer component life, superior insulation and more.

iDea® Seal Technology

A pioneering ISG capability, iDea® Seals technology creates a rigid plastic base that will smoothly slide into a channel, eliminating the need for secondary mechanical fastening, saving assembly time and reducing costs.

Download our iDea® Seal Product Sheet to learn more.

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Cooper Standard serves HVAC industry partners in just about every corner of the world. With long-term partnerships in Saudi Arabia, India, Singapore, Dubai and other major international manufacturing centers, you can be assured that we can provide proven quality and logistical support wherever the operations of our multinational or overseas partners are located. Contact us today to get started, and check out our resources below!