Jyco Sealing Technologies Video Transcript

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Jyco Sealing Technologies, an 11-year-old world leader in rubber weather sealing solutions for automotive, heavy truck and RV industries, is based in Dexter, Michigan. The Mexican manufacturing facility opened in October, 2006 and within two years had shipped its millionth part while achieving a world-class scrap rate of only 10 PPM.

Jyco Sealing Technologies’ management includes the industry’s leading innovators and experts in automotive door seals design, engineering and manufacturing.  Jyco has already gone through two major Mexican manufacturing expansions at its Guaymas, Sonora facility and plans a third.  Product line includes slide out seals, bulb seals, gap hiders, close out glass seals and cargo door seals.

The 18,000 SF plant, ISO/TS16949 certified, supplies TPV sealing systems to assembly plants throughout Latin America, and is supported by on-site sales and engineering. Many of Jyco’s industry-standard innovations – such as the multi-durometer extruding and robotic assembly – have come from the company’s leadership role in the automotive rubber door seals industry.  Today, the supremacy of JyBond and Jyco’s TPV rubber sealing expertise, offers bumper-to-bumper sealing technology for every type of vehicle.

Virtually all workers are at “U” stations allowing maximum use of personnel at multiple stations, staffing extruding lines and molding stations where they produce glass run-channels and lower door, sunroof and secondary seals. Material used for automotive door seals is thermoplastic vulcanite, fully cured in plastic matrix. The processes make the material behave like rubber.

No inventory is accumulated at this just-in-time Mexico manufacturing facility. After a final inspection is conducted, goods are dispatched to Toluca, Mexico and elsewhere.

From Jyco Sealing Technologies, Mexico’s inception in 2000, the company structured its manufacturing operations around state-of-the-art TPV rubber seal  processing equipment and, by doing so; it avoided the expense, transitional problems and retooling that other sealing suppliers face in adapting EPDM systems to processing. As a result, customers enjoy benefits in responsiveness, reliability, and cost control.

The company’s proprietary TPV compound, JyFlex, outperform traditional EPDM seals in many areas, and offers eco-friendly advantages as well.

The environmentally-friendly features of Jyco TPV products have given the company a prominent place in the manufacture of a number of hybrid and electric vehicles. Jyco Sealing Technologies takes a “green” approach to its all of its plants, seeking to assure the new plants, renovations and expansions meet the Green Building Rating System and standards of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED. This policy applies to all Jyco facilities including offshore nations where strict environmental standards do not apply.