First All Plastic Front Grill

This application utilizes a new molded-in color TPO material in a highly visible truck-bed rails application. The material has excellent scuff and mar resistance, and a low coefficient of linear-thermal expansion (CLTE) value. Innovations allowed the material to replace an engineered thermoplastic ionomer in the existing tools, resulting in a 30% direct materials and process savings.

OEM/Vehicle 1966 Pontiac Bonneville, Catalina, and Tempest System Supplier GM Ternstedt Division Millington Plastics Co.

Material Supplier Marbon Chemical (a division of Borg Warner, now GE Plastics) Resin CYCOLAC H ABS Tooling/Equipment Supplier Perfect Mold (The Becker Group)

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