COVER STORY: CDI PRODUCTS
CDI PRODUCTS: Always Prepared for a Challenge
Achieving Class AH tightness for ISO 15848-1 is no easy feat. It demands the fortitude to create innovative designs, perform repeated in-house, customer, and third-party testing, and make changes when improvements are needed. Finding solutions that can meet this level of sealing involves thoroughly understanding the customer’ s design criteria, proper material selection, and ensuring the product is designed for a repeatable manufacturing process. Adhering to ISO specifications is a complex challenge for any company, which is why many companies choose to eschew the rigorous steps involved in achieving certification. CDI took the challenge head-on and set its sights on providing its customer with a Class A polymer stem seal that choked off emissions. Remarkably, CDI succeeded.
Fugitive Emissions Journal had the pleasure of speaking with members of the CDI Products team. Mike Hedger, Director of Engineering, Kari Schoeffler, Global Director of Marketing, and Kyle Ward, Product Engineer, provided valuable insights into the company’ s path to ISO 15848-1 Class AH / CC1 qualification testing and CDI’ s fearless embrace of challenges.
By Kristen Charles, Editor – Fugitive Emissions Journal
6 FUGITIVE EMISSIONS JOURNAL • JUNE 2025