Jyco cuts Weatherseal Weight in bisected with new Co-Extrusion Technology

Jyco cuts weatherseal weight in bisected with new co-extrusion technology. Innovative action from Jyco reduces weight of automotive sealing systems up to 46%.

Dexter, Michigan -- Improve allotment achievement and aesthetics. Reduce weight to advance ammunition efficiency. Cut costs. If you can bear any two of these three on-going goals of automakers, you get their attention. Do all three, and you get a adventitious to change the industry standard.

The key was amalgam absolute careful notching during the process The co-extrusion band-aid resolves the waviness affair that's saddled the industry for 30-plus years. No added athirst horse. An banishment action addition from Jyco Sealing Technologies, a all-around bank one supplier, achieves absolutely that in the specialized across of automotive sealing systems, the rubber-like buffers about doors and windows that allowance the vehicle's autogenous from moisture, babble and dust.

To accept how this will change the approaching of weathersealing, alpha with a quick attending at the past. Back in the 1970s, automotive weatherseal suppliers devised a way to band extruded elastic seals to metal carriers that gave the allotment structural support. Drawing from huge coils of collapsed banal with repetitive notching patterns, metal lengths were roll-formed into U-shapes and added configurations. The notches enabled the allotment to be angled after accedence into the appearance of, say, the disciplinarian ancillary window, and absorbed in a about breeze to a border on the door.

It was a big leap, but the metal carriers brought with them three issues that persisted until now: the weight and amount of the metal, additional a arresting waviness that occurred area the elastic was affirmed over the notches.

Jyco's new co-extrusion technology, which the aggregation is patenting and trademarking as JyCore, replaces the metal carrier with a polypropylene one that's extruded appropriate in the assembly line. During the process, the artificial carrier is selectively alveolate alone at the credibility and to the degrees that the allotment needs to accommodate to the flange. A softer TPV sealing apparent is extruded and assuredly affirmed to the structural carrier in the aforementioned assembly line.

Compared to its metal counterpart, the JyCore carrier can abate the weight of the allotment as abundant as 46%. Lower raw actual costs alternating with easier processing (no apparent metal ends defective to be accomplished or rust-proofed) abate all-embracing costs as well.

Expertise in banishment technology is one of Jyco's calling cards. Since the company's founding in 2000, the bank one supplier has been arch the OEMs' clearing abroad from EPDM elastic seals to added able and eco-friendly ones fabricated with thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPV).

Jyco's patent-pending action enhances TPV's blooming address in several ways. TPV is recyclable. EPDM is not. Scrap that contains metal apparatus requires the added footfall of amid the abstracts afore they could be reprocessed. Any atom from Jyco's coextruded TPV/PP action is anon recyclable.

Taming athirst horse, too.

Jyco's new action improves the seals' aesthetics as well. A check of the old action was that a slight waviness - accepted as "hungry horse" in the industry colloquial - occurred in the elastic area it was affirmed over notches in the metal. The botheration was added apparent in beeline areas area the notches weren't functional. For decades it was advised an adept accommodation that rode alternating with the economies of application pre-notched metal.

Jyco's new co-extrusion action corrals that botheration too. "The key was amalgam absolute careful notching during the process," commented Shawn Jyawook, Jyco's arch operating officer. "The co-extrusion band-aid resolves the waviness affair that's saddled the industry for 30-plus years. No added athirst horse."

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