Company: CPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001320461-25-000033
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Company: Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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omer chemistry platform, offering reduced weight while delivering superior material performance and aesthetics. We have also developed several other significant technologies, especially related to advanced materials, processing and weight reduction. These include: FlexiCore™, a thermoplastic body seal that replaces traditional metal carriers in vehicle on-body seals with a more eco-friendly, lightweight plastic; FlushSeal™, an advanced integrated solution for frame-under-glass static sealing systems offering better appearance, improved aerodynamics, quieter ride and reduced weight; TPE body seal, a next generation body seal that replaces traditionally less sustainable EPDM and metal with recyclable thermoplastic materials which save significant component weight; eCoFlow™ switch pump, a solution that offers features of both an electric water pump and electronically driven valve in a single integrated coolant control module; plastic 

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coolant hub, a solution that combines many fluid handling components and a uniquely integrated pressure balancing feature into a sophisticated centralized compact plastic manifold; MagAlloy™, a processing technology for brake lines that increases long term durability through superior corrosion resistance; and Easy-Lock™, a small package coolant and fuel vapor quick connect. Given the trajectory and anticipated future growth of electric vehicles, Cooper Standard has developed innovations to provide lightweight plastic tubing with our PlastiCool® 2000 multilayer tubing, smooth and convoluted mid-temperature multilayer tubing, and our next-generation Ergo-Lock™ and Ergo-Lock™ + VDA quick connectors for glycol thermal management needs.

Cooper Standard is strategically integrating digital tools and advanced analysis to help deliver the best solutions. We offer advanced computer-aided engineering and digital simulations for engineered solutions. In addition, our team of experts has developed digital tools that enable them to conduct prototype testing without the need for physical samples, resulting in sustainability benefits. For certain products, we can provide up to 100% virtual testing.

We continue to adopt proprietary artificial intelligence (“A.I.”) based solutions where they deliver business value. These solutions include Formulink, which enables guided development of superior polymer compounds in less time; and A.I. based tools for virtual validation of product performance, which reduces requirements for physical testing.

Our solutions also include A.I. tools for automated process control, enabling the full automation of polymer extrusion and other complex continuous processes. This advanced technology reduces process variation (a top driver of scrap), increases product quality, improves operational metrics, and reduces our carbon footprint. To promote adoption of these solutions within Cooper Standard and explore potential external sales opportunities, the