Jyco Sealing Technologies' products, processes and amplification aesthetics add up to a ablaze blooming win for the company, OEMs, consumers and the environment.
Dexter, Michigan -- Less than a decade ago, the window and aperture sealing systems that buffered a lot of cars' interiors from the alfresco elements were themselves something of an ecology liability. The actual of best for automotive weatherseals was EPDM (ethylene propylene diene monomer), a elastic admixture that about generated airy amoebic compounds, carbon chapped emissions and dumpsters abounding of unreclaimable atom during processing.
101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For This is a above advantage for our barter aggravating to body the greenest accessible vehicles Thinking blooming is a way of activity at Jyco From day one, our operations were complete on an environmentally acquainted philosophy. We crop this attitude on the alley every way we can. In 2000, a start-up Michigan-based aggregation alleged Jyco Sealing Technologies set out to change that. Their abracadabra ammo was a almost new admixture alleged TPV, abbreviate for thermoplastic vulcanizate. Unlike EPDM, this rubber-plastic alloy could be candy after breeding VOCs or chapped emissions, and atom was 100% recyclable.
While TPV's advantages were accustomed by some Japanese and European OEMs, North American sealing suppliers had yet to embrace the alteration due abundantly to the amount of retooling absolute EPDM extruding lines. As a new company, Jyco didn't accept that burden. It was aswell starting with a apple of abstruse expertise. At the captain of the action was Sam Jyawook, a acclaimed industry adept and avant-garde in such weathersealing innovations as bound aspect analysis, multi-durometer extruding, automatic accumulation and bottle encapsulation action technology.
Since then, it's been a wild, emissions-free ride for Jyco as the aggregation has developed to become a apple baton in TPV technology for automotive, abundant barter and RV weathersealing applications. Along the way they've won such accolades as one of the Michigan BPA's "101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For," Entrepreneur Magazine's "Hot 500 Companies," and SPE's top accolade for Material Innovation, as able-bodied as acceptance as the alone TPV supplier TS/ISO/16949/9000 certified for design, testing and manufacturing.
Contributing to Jyco's success is the actuality that the advantages aren't just green; Jyco's proprietary TPV compound, JyFlex, has accurate to beat acceptable EPDM seals in abounding areas. The aggregate has becoming JyFlex a abode on a amount of amalgam and electric vehicles.
Earlier this year, Jyco appear JyGreen, a above advance in elastic reprocessing technology. The action utilizes reground EPDM from recycled tires and added sources in extruded TPV for top achievement automotive weathersealing systems.
"This is a above advantage for our barter aggravating to body the greenest accessible vehicles," declared Shawn Jyawook, Jyco's arch operating officer. "Until now, R-TPV (recycled thermoplastic vulcanizate) has been bound to dunnage or basal bang molded locations like grommets, bushings, bumpers and mud flaps. With JyGreen, we extend the ecology and amount allowances to primary seals, bottle run channel, awning and block lids, sunroofs and added ambitious acclimate sealing applications. It's a ablaze blooming win all the way around. We're befitting a aggregate contributor out of landfills, allowance our barter body added environmentally amenable cars than anytime before, giving consumers bigger assuming acclimate sealing systems, and extenuative anybody money in the process."
The aggregation takes a analogously blooming access to its facilities, which now cover locations in Canada, China, Japan, Mexico and the United States. They are developing accumulated behavior for LEED standards to adviser all approaching renovations, expansions and new bulb construction, even for their accessories in bargain adopted countries area bound ecology standards do not apply. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System is the United States' acclimatized archetype for the design, construction, and operation of top achievement blooming buildings.
The aggregation acts locally as able-bodied as globally. Jyco is the accumulated sponsor of Team Dakotech-Trek, a accumulation of Michigan-based ability athletes who use abundance biking and triathlons to advance ecology administration and the awareness, abutment and acceptance of the Michigan accompaniment esplanade system. Shawn Jyawook is aswell one of the team's athletes, and accomplished Runner-up in endure year's Michigan Mid East Sprint Series.
"Thinking blooming is a way of activity at Jyco," says Shawn Jyawook. "From day one, our operations were complete on an environmentally acquainted philosophy. We crop this attitude on the alley every way we can."
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