A look at how our team culture continues to drive community impact. Proudly based in both Holland and Rochester, our team actively volunteers alongside organizations that enrich the places we live and work. Supporting the local community has long been a part of...
A closer look at Coastal Automotive’s triple bottom line approach to sustainability. Over the years, our team has invested time and energy into daily actions and volunteer efforts to make meaningful progress toward the goals we set in 2022. Through the annual...
Partnering with the University of Michigan students in the Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) program. Students build more than skills through hands-on learning opportunities. These experiences are critical as they also build confidence and lay the...
Announcing a new complementary product to support our existing line of IMPAXX™ energy management solutions. Over the past several months, the Coastal Automotive team has been developing TereSorb™, a lightweight absorption material made entirely from recycled bottles,...
Last week, representatives from Coastal Automotive traveled to Detroit, MI, to claim the 2024 Seraph Award for Operational Excellence in the Human Resources category. The award recognized Coastal Automotive’s exceptional commitment to its people and organizational...
On Wednesday, May 15th, Coastal Automotive participated in Community Impact Day, a volunteer event organized by the West Coast Chamber of Commerce. Once a year, participants volunteer their time at locations around West Michigan to give back to the community. This...
Late last month, CFO Mark McConnell and I had the opportunity to join fellow automotive industry leaders and advocates with MEMA (Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association) at the Advocacy Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C. There we met directly with...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QC4QOVUKMo Automotive companies are constantly searching for ways to increase passenger safety in the event of a crash. It’s their top priority. In this search, Tony McConnell, Coastal Automotive’s lead material scientist, has turned...
While scientists have studied ways to maximize automotive safety for over a century, nature has been developing efficient structures to protect life for billions of years. In Tony McConnell’s upcoming presentation at Foam Expo North America, we’ll look at a few...
This month Coastal Automotive began printing tourniquet clips on their 3D printer to aid the injured in Ukraine as part of Project DIAMOnD. Started in 2020, Automation Alley’s Project DIAMOnD (which stands for Distributed, Independent, Agile Manufacturing on Demand)...
West Michigan-based Coastal Group announced today executive leadership team changes for itself and one of its Holland-based companies, Coastal Automotive.
In providing the safest and most reliable energy management and impact solutions for the automotive industry, we make sure that any scrap materials from our manufacturing process are recycled in an environmentally sound manner. The vast majority of our energy and...