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Getting a part ready for commercialization includes ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and legislation. Manufacturers have their own specific standards they follow to avoid the possible risk of product recalls. Yet recalls still happen, and even a minor malfunction to a vehicle part can cause a recall and decrease customer satisfaction, not to mention how damaging a major recall can be to brand image.
Getting a part ready for commercialization includes ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and legislation. Manufacturers are knowledgeable in organizing material approvals and expect the suppliers they work with to be knowledgeable about the regulations and legislation—to know what approvals are needed for the country and region, and to be compliant.
Many manufacturers have their own specific standards (deviations of general standards)—they research material solutions to find the ones that meet their specific applications’ standards to make certain they avoid the possible risk of product recalls.
Even a minor malfunction to a vehicle part that causes a recall can decrease customer satisfaction, not to mention how damaging a major recall can be to brand image. You may remember hearing of such recalls in the news: issues with gearboxes that led to the loss of power while driving, airbag sensors going berserk, faulty power window switches and door latches, engines catching on fire, and so on. You can see why such recalls would hurt a brand image.
At Envalior, we provide testing and compliance-related documentation and services, including material safety data sheets, grade specific states, UL listings, regulatory affair statements (such as ROHS and REACH), and life cycle analyses—all helping you decrease the risk of potential recalls, along with time to market and ease of business.
Our Envalior team also offers their expertise in the following areas:
At Envalior we work closely with our customers to help them ensure compliance with the regulatory standards they need to meet. You can also access data sheets on plasticsfinder.envalior.com, saving you time.
Contact us today to discuss how we can help you ensure the compliance of your latest part.
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As our economy places more focus on efficiency, industry is responding by creating products that are thinner, lighter, and smaller – with the same or more functionality.
In the ongoing quest to do more with less, some automotive applications prove more challenging than other
As car manufacturers continuously focus on reducing weight to improve fuel efficiency, replacing metal parts with plastic remains a key challenge.
Plastics offer a solution that is lighter in weight than metal and rubber. In addition, plastics enable the production of parts with complex geometries, meaning its possible to convert a number of components into a single, simplified part.
UD tapes, tape-based 2D fabrics, and cross plies are used in structural and semi-structural applications, and in the selective reinforcement of injection molded parts.
One of the most challenging environments we work in is under the hood of a car. The parts used in these applications are subjected to high temperatures, broad temperature ranges and corrosive chemicals.
Today’s cars are 90% quieter than cars from the 1970s, when vehicle noise first began to be legislated. OEMs are also increasingly focused on improving the driving experience.
As car manufacturers seek to meet more strict legislation on tailgate emissions, a key area of focus is the reduction of wear and friction in the engine and transmission.
In some consumer electronics applications, key characteristics of the plastic material are haptics and aesthetics – how they look and feel.
Understanding how compounds with low molecular weight migrate across plastic is important for many applications.
The engineering plastics used in various electronics parts have to comply with strict flame retardancy requirements and more environmentally friendly solutions
Learn how Envalior material science helps improve performance with e-friendly materials that do not corrode electrical components.
Designing an innovative part is only one step in the process. Once you have the part design and the material grade selected, and you have successfully manufactured the part in the lab, you need to roll it out for commercial production.
New part designs made from engineering plastics are often able to bypass or reduce the number of secondary processing steps.
While many new parts designed to be manufactured from engineering plastics can bypass or reduce the number of secondary processing steps, some parts still require operations such as painting and printing.
Once you are ready to commercialize your part, you also need to ensure it complies with relevant industry standards and regulations.
Safety is a key concern whenever plastics and electronics meet, and in today’s digitized world, that happens with increasing frequency.
When we talk about Imagine the Future, one of the core ideas we’re expressing is our concern for sustainability. That’s why we have integrated green design into our business.
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