Clean Diesel Technologies,
which has an exceptional catalog of emission control systems and products
designed to meet and even exceed field dependability requirements (main focus
in heavy duty diesel and light duty vehicle market), based on over three decades
of catalyst and fuel technology development, compliance needle threadingb and
implementation experience, reported big news today as production begins on
catalysts for Honda’s 2015 Acura TLX, incorporating the company’s
high-performance focused MPC® (Mixed Phase Catalyst) technology.
With product rolling out as
soon as within the first half of 2014 here, savvy investors will want to keep
an eye on CDTI, which also provides its robust catalyst solutions for several
of Honda’s other four/six-cylinder Accords, Acura TSX/RLX models, and
Hybrid/Plug-In Hybrids for North America. This is a big beefing up of the
supplier role for CDTI to Honda; and the naming of the company as catalyst
source for the new 2015 Acura TLX is a real feather in CDTI’s cap, clearly showcasing
to the industry that the company’s advanced catalyst technologies continue to
evolve and keep pace with the industry.
The extremely robust unique
nanostructures (maximum thermal stability combined with high resistance to
sintering) in CDTI’s family of ceramic oxide catalytic substrate coatings,
which utilize the MPC technology, as well as the process by which they are
applied, results in a vastly more durable and cost-effective converter which is
also capable of improved performance output. Patented mixed-metal oxides, in
certain applications combined with PGMs (platinum group metals), utilizing low
cost transition metals and lanthanides, is an ingenious engineering approach.
The atomic structure of the coatings and their unique ability to produce the
reactions necessary for high-performance catalytic converters, is a remarkable
piece of material science in and of itself.
The significant reduction in
the amount of increasingly expensive PGMs required in the CDTI technology to
produce effective levels of emission reduction makes it cheaper and easier than
ever before to meet similarly mounting, increasingly stringent emission
standards. The thermal resiliency of the CDTI products and their unique
performance capabilities really sets them apart from competitors and this
latest deal with Honda further highlights the unique attributes/benefits of the
company’s technology quite distinctly. A real sign of the health of the company
in general as well, given that CDTI’s catalyst division began shipping product
to Honda way back in 2001, after which the company quickly became Honda’s go-to
supplier for new model programs (typically four to five year spans), especially
for their most popular Accord model years.
Nikhil Mehta, CFO of CDTI,
who was appointed to the Office of the Chief Executive Officer in December 2013
and who came over from his CFO role at Catalytic Solutions, Inc. during the Oct
2010 fusion of the two companies cited the company’s technology being utilized
in six different Honda vehicle platforms currently as a real testament to the
company’s continued vigor and ability to deliver market-leading solutions.
Mehta further emphasized mounting pressure spanning all vehicle segments for
increased emission reduction standards, citing in particular the EPA’s new Tier
3 standards and proffered up the company’s MPC tech as being ideally suited to
meeting the demand such pressure generates.
More on Clean Diesel
Technologies is available at www.CDTI.com
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