Virtually every passenger car, sport utility vehicle, and pickup truck produced in North America contains parts made by Carlisle Engineered Products. These products range from door gaskets to radiator end tanks, from air dams to cowl screens, from bumper beams to wire channels. Specializing in the application of plastics and rubber technologies to provide highly engineered components to the automotive industry for a wide range of vehicle system needs, Carlisle Engineered Products has established strong relationships with its customers, the major automakers, and first-tier system suppliers. Carlisle Engineered Products has selected specific product/market segments where we can provide our customers with exceptional value. We have focused our product expertise toward engineered components for major vehicle systems such as front-end modules, engine cooling, climate control, fluid

management, and interior seating. Our experience includes exterior, interior, under-hood, and electro-mechanical products.

In order to provide our customers with the best value product solutions, Carlisle Engineered Products employs a variety of alternative process technologies for plastics (injection molding, blow molding, and extrusion) and rubber (molding and extrusion). Our QS9000-certified manufacturing facilities are strategically positioned to provide optimum logistical advantages to the majority of our customer base. Carlisle Engineered Products has ten plants in the United States and one in Mexico.

Throughout 2001, in a tough automotive environment, Carlisle Engineered Products underwent restructuring and realignment to better balance plant workloads to shifting customer needs. Additionally, we held fast to our lean manufacturing activities at all of our facilities, improved return on employed assets through improved working capital management, and drastically reduced fixed costs. We secured orders to develop and launch new products in several segments of the OEM market.

Carlisle Engineered Products’ long history of engineering excellence and design innovation has positioned us well to meet the ever-increasing expectations of our automotive customers. We pioneered the development of injection molded plastic radiator end tanks in North America, and maintain majority market share. Additionally, we designed and manufactured the first blow molded
plastic bumper reinforcement to meet the 5-mph impact test. Carlisle Engineered Products won
the Powertrain Category of the Society of Plastics Engineers’ “Most Innovative Use of Plastics” awards competition for the 2001 model year for our development of an injection molded charge-
air-cooler end tank, replacing cast aluminum in this under-hood high temperature application.
Carlisle Engineered Products embraces the process of continuous improvement and continues to employ new technologies and innovative solutions to meet our customers’ ever-increasing demands for higher value at lower costs.