CS Insights Blog

EPDM is a very effective and cost-effective material for seals and components in equipment like appliances, HVAC, commercial vehicles and windows and doors that need to operate in a wide range of high and low temperature environments.

In response to increasing customer demands, Cooper Standard ISG has started offering anti-microbial seals and related components to our industrial clients, leveraging and expanding our world-class design and extruding expertise with proven, industry-leading anti-microbial materials.

Cooper Standard ISG stands out in sealing solution development by internally formulating and compounding our own silicone in-house, right from scratch. Our expertise extends to not only dense silicone materials, but sponge silicone as well.

Nothing stands up to high temperature fluids like silicone - handling the flow of liquids in conditions up to 500ºC, a heat intensity nearly twice as high as most rubber hose materials like EPDM.

As the lead quality engineer at Cooper Standard ISG’s main thermoplastic extrusion plant, my work is generally behind the scenes.

Bus passengers, especially school children or the elderly, have faced the risk and danger of getting caught in automatic bus doors, which can be a serious and often tragic issue.

Appliance makers face a much bigger challenge compared to other industrial manufacturers when specifying seals, hoses, tubes and other rubber and thermoplastic components for dishwashers, refrigerators, icemakers, ovens and other food-related storage, packaging and processing equipment.

Thermoplastic components are generally manufactured using one of two industrial processes. The first being injection molding, where molten plastic is injected under high pressure into a mold, and hardens into the desired shape as it cools.