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...
Coastal Automotive creates products that ensure safety and ultimately save lives, which means we need systems and regulations in place to ensure we run efficiently and meet the high standards our customers have come to expect. There is no better confirmation of our...
It’s not everyday that we get the opportunity to create a product that would help a vehicle complete a 1,877 mile trip across the Australian outback, run solely by power from the sun. That was the task at hand when we partnered with Chae Woo Lim, engineering director...
Coastal Automotive has hired Luis Olmos González as regional manager for the Mexico region to better serve OEM and Tier 1 suppliers. In this role, Olmos will provide engineering support with Coastal Automotive’s passive safety products. Olmos is Coastal Automotive’s...
This year, Coastal Automotive earned the IATF 16949 certification. This certification highlights the development of a process-oriented quality management system that provides continual improvement, defect prevention and reduction of variation and waste in the supply...