GEON® Delivers Innovation
Behind every manufacturing advance made possible by GEON’s technology and services is a story about collaboration and innovation. These are just a few. The people of GEON love a challenge. Have one of your own? Contact GEON and let’s make the impossible possible…
Transportation
GEON Guides Automotive Long-Fiber Substitution for Savings
A leading automaker was experiencing dimensional stability issues when it produced an automotive structural component. This component, the vehicle’s instrument panel (IP), showed unacceptable amounts of warpage and distortion, causing fit and finish issues with first surface panels, trim bezels, and control panels.
Transportation
GEON Guides Automotive Long-Fiber Substitution for Savings
A leading automaker was experiencing dimensional stability issues when it produced an automotive structural component. This component, the vehicle’s instrument panel (IP), showed unacceptable amounts of warpage and distortion, causing fit and finish issues with first surface panels, trim bezels, and control panels.
Transportation
Total Climate Control: GEON Products for Transportation HVAC Systems
Occupant comfort is a key customer desire in passenger vehicles. Automakers and major climate control Tier suppliers face a multitude of challenges in meeting this customer metric. Customer satisfiers include multizone temperature control, low “time to comfort,” low odor, low noise and refreshing air quality. OEMs value low mass, systems with low energy consumption and low system cost.
Building & Construction
Lighting Manufacturer Creates Award-Winning Design with Polymer Technology
Hinkley Lighting needed to break the design constraints of traditional luminaire materials for a new LED landscape light. Read how GEON helped them meet a temperature challenge.
Building & Construction
Lighting Manufacturer Creates Award-Winning Design with Polymer Technology
Hinkley Lighting needed to break the design constraints of traditional luminaire materials for a new LED landscape light. Read how GEON helped them meet a temperature challenge.
Building & Construction
Replacing Metal with Vinyl Shines a Light on Value
Smart Hero, a contract manufacturer headquartered in China, produces a variety of electronic products for OEMs – specializing in outdoor lighting. They were looking for a way to reduce the manufacturing cost of its line of solar-powered lights made using painted metal. Moving from painted metal to pre-colored GEON M5705 material reduced Smart Hero’s manufacturing costs by over $300,000 annually, due to lower scrap rates and the elimination of painting.
Healthcare
GEON Delivers Complete Solution to Help Medical Device Manufacturer Launch Innovative Product
Alliqua BioMedical Inc., a manufacturer of breakthrough technologies for regenerative healing therapies, wanted avoid stress cracking in their new UltrarMIST® Ultrasound Healing Therapy system. Read how GEON and Resilience™ HC vinyl materials helped them get to market in five months.
Healthcare
GEON Delivers Complete Solution to Help Medical Device Manufacturer Launch Innovative Product
Alliqua BioMedical Inc., a manufacturer of breakthrough technologies for regenerative healing therapies wanted avoid stress cracking in their new UltrarMIST® Ultrasound Healing Therapy system. Read how GEON and Resilience™ HC vinyl materials helped them get to market in five months.
Healthcare
Oxygen Mask Goes Odorless with GEON HC Flexible Vinyl
In order for LIFE Corporation to be successful in Japan, they needed a vinyl product offering minimal odor combined with high clarity. Read how GEON’s flexible vinyl met the need.
Electronics
Vinyl Improves Operational Efficiency for Surge Suppressor Housings
An injection molder based in China was experiencing scrap rates of about 15% as well as other color and appearance inconsistencies with their FR ABS molding process for surge suppressor housings. The molder looked to GEON in Dongguan, China for assistance in improving the quality of production and reducing the scrap rates in its operations.
Electronics
Vinyl Improves Operational Efficience for Surge Suppressor Housings
An injection molder based in China was experiencing scrap rates of about 15% as well as other color and appearance inconsistencies with their FR ABS molding process for surge suppressor housings. The molder looked to GEON in Dongguan, China for assistance in improving the quality of production and reducing the scrap rates in its operations.
Appliances
Laundry Appliance Maker Shines with the Look of Metal
As a major global appliance manufacturer prepared to make consoles for a new line of laundry machines, its product team was at an impasse. Marketing wanted metal for its premium look. But the metal production process limited design creativity and raised costs. Read how GEON FX METAL helped them shine and save over $500,000.
Transportation
Minimizing Warpage in Automotive Components
A leading automaker was experiencing dimensional stability issues while molding a vehicle instrument panel – leading to warping and distortion. This inconsistent quality began to create a significant amount of product waste, decreasing plant productivity and increasing cost. Read how GEON’s HST polypropylene solved the problem.
Transportation
Minimizing Warpage in Automotive Components
A leading automaker was experiencing dimensional stability issues while molding a vehicle instrument panel – leading to warping and distortion. This inconsistent quality began to create a significant amount of product waste, decreasing plant productivity and increasing cost. Read how GEON’s MAXXAM (NEW) HST solved the problem.
Wire & Cable
Minimizing the Effect of Plasticizer Supply Disruptions
A leading wire and cable polymer formulator faced significant business risk due to a global supply disruption of the linear 810 alcohol used to produce 810TM, a specialty trimellitate plasticizer offered by numerous plasticizer manufacturers. GEON worked with this company to develop a novel L9TM plasticizer, made with linear 9 alcohol, and created a more cost-effective manufacturing process.
Wire & Cable
Plenum Formulations Go Antimony-Free
A widely used flame retardant – antimony – was placed on California’s Proposition 65 list of chemicals. GEON was tasked by several telecom cable manufacturers to develop a PVC formulation that meets the following Critical to Quality (CTQ) outputs. Read how it worked out.
Wire & Cable
Plenum Formulations Go Antimony-Free
A widely used flame retardant – antimony – was placed on California’s Proposition 65 list of chemicals. GEON was tasked by several telecom cable manufacturers to develop a PVC formulation that meets the following Critical to Quality (CTQ) outputs. Read how it worked out.