Cooper Standard's plastic coolant hub technology receives SPE award

Cooper Standard, a leading global supplier of sealing and fluid handling systems and components, has been recognized as a 2024 Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Automotive Innovation Award winner in the powertrain category for its plastic coolant hub.

Unlike traditional coolant handling systems that are comprised of many discrete tubes, adaptors, and connectors, Cooper Standard's plastic coolant hub combines many of these fluid handling components and a uniquely integrated pressure balancing feature into a more sophisticated centralized compact plastic manifold.

Cooper Standard’s plastic coolant hub technology named SPE Automotive Innovation Award Powertrain Category Winner.

This innovative solution has many advantages, including improving vehicle performance, reducing required vehicle packaging space, saving assembly time, and supporting more sustainable operations with less material and product waste.

In particular, the required packaging spacing in a vehicle has been significantly improved through the consolidation and integration of the plastic coolant manifold components.

Already in production, the plastic coolant hub satisfies requirements across a range of vehicle applications, and can be adapted to all OEM systems, including BEV, ICEand hybrid.