Quietly Adding Value To Vehicles Around The World

In today’s luxury-conscious automotive marketplace, quiet has become as
important as styling and performance in shaping customer perceptions of
quality and value. In response, OEMs have developed a variety of add-on
treatments to attenuate the powertrain vibration and road noise that resonates
through vehicles creating unpleasant sounds that eventually enter the
passenger compartment.

But, add-on treatments represent add-on weight and costs, while creating
manufacturing and assembly issues as well as potential paint contamination.
MSC offers a better alternative with a series of unique material solutions for
Body-In-White applications that damp vibration directly before it has an
opportunity to penetrate the interior of the vehicle.

For example, extensive acoustical testing clearly demonstrates that using
Quiet Steel^® in a dash panel can substantially reduce ambient noise levels in
the passenger compartment and eliminate the need for add-on treatments.

Designing Quiet Steel^® into the body structure itself provides 100% damping
coverage and eliminates costly alternative patches in the process. In addition to improved acoustical performance, Quiet Steel^® also offers
potential weight reduction opportunities and associated cost savings.

Quiet Steel^® forms, welds and recycles like standard steel. Both Ford Motor
Company and General Motors are using this approach successfully on selected dash panels in their premium vehicles.

Quiet Steel^® can provide the same benefits in other Body-In-White applications
including wheelhouses, upper dash cowls, floor panels, back panels, package trays, and spare tire tubs. Quiet Steel^® and other MSC materials quietly add value by providing exceptional noise reduction while simultaneously reducing vehicle weight and costs for OEMs.