Acoustical Padding features environmentally friendly design.
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Made from recycled material typically deposited in landfills, QuietShield® GRN is used in vehicle headliners, door panels, and kick panels to eliminate noise. Cardboard packaging and other recyclable by-products collected at automotive manufacturing plants are shredded, combined with other recycled materials, formed into web, and bonded, eliminating need for automakers to pay for transport to recycling center or landfill.
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QuietShield®: An Innovative Example of Recycling for the Auto Industry
Eco-Friendly Product Debuts in Time for Earth Day, April 22, 2009
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., April 16 /- Federal-Mogul Corporation (NASDAQ:FDML) recently introduced an innovative, environmentally-friendly product that uses recycled material typically deposited in a landfill to eliminate noise in an automobile's cabin. QuietShield(R) GRN (Green Non-woven), an acoustical padding for use in vehicle headliners, door panels and kick panels, is manufactured using recycled cardboard packaging and other by-products normally discarded at a vehicle assembly plant. QuietShield debuted as part of a headliner assembly provided by Grupo Antolin on the 2010 Buick LaCrosse luxury sedan.
Automotive manufacturing plants today receive numerous parts for delivery to the assembly line in cardboard containers and other packaging. Some of these containers are made of recyclable materials, others are not. In both cases, when empty, the automaker pays to transport cardboard packaging and other refuse to a recycling center or landfill. Federal-Mogul's QuietShield offers customers a new solution to these problems. The recyclable by-products collected at the manufacturing plant are shredded, combined with other recycled materials, formed into a web and bonded in a unique manufacturing process by Federal-Mogul. The manufacturing process was developed by Federal-Mogul's engineering experts, drawing on their expertise in the development and manufacture of high performance textile-based protection products. The padding can be used by automotive manufacturers and other industries to fabricate linings and sound deadening padding where noise isolation is required.
"Producing acoustical padding from materials that would otherwise be discarded represents an economically-viable and environmentally-friendly solution, reducing landfill utilization and waste disposal costs," said Ramzi Hermiz, senior vice president, Vehicle Safety and Protection, Federal-Mogul. "We expect QuietShield, and innovative products like this, to have a larger presence on vehicles and many other applications in the future."
QuietShield(R) GRN is another solution provided by Federal-Mogul's Systems Protection group, maker of Bentley-Harris(R) brand protection products and the world's foremost supplier of protective solutions for passenger and commercial vehicles. These solutions provide protection against abrasion and mechanical damage, noise, vibration and thermal conditions, as well as reduce emissions, for example by insulating exhaust pipes to improve diesel particulate filter performance.
Manufacturing automobile, commercial vehicle or industrial products from materials that reduce environmental impact is not a new concept for Federal-Mogul. The company is today the world's leader in the design, development and production of a number of environmentally-friendly products for these markets.
About Federal-Mogul
Federal-Mogul Corporation is a leading global supplier of powertrain and safety technologies, serving the world's foremost original equipment manufacturers of automotive, light commercial, heavy-duty, agricultural, marine, rail, off-road and industrial vehicles, as well as the worldwide aftermarket. The company's leading technology and innovation, lean manufacturing expertise, as well as marketing and distribution deliver world-class products, brands and services with quality excellence at a competitive cost. Federal-Mogul is focused on its global profitable growth strategy, creating value and satisfaction for its customers, shareholders and employees. Federal-Mogul was founded in Detroit in 1899. The company is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, and employs nearly 39,000 people in 36 countries.
CONTACT: Paula Silver of Federal-Mogul Corporation, +1-248-354-4530
