Change in manufacturing process delivered a change for the good

One of the world’s largest truck manufacturers asked Chardon to help them with a dilemma. They were looking to trim costs out of a part assembly that they’d been happy with for years – an extruded rubber mud guard with a contoured metal insert.

Immediately, our engineers went to work reviewing the part design, materials and manufacturing process. And although Chardon is certainly skilled at extrusion, compression molding this assembly made much more sense. In short, compression molding allowed us to bond the rubber guard to the metal insert in-line, therefore, eliminating two secondary operations. So production time was sped up and a more attractive end-product was born. Beyond that, the process switch saved $70,000 in tooling and more than $100,000 in production costs each year.

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