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Follow on Google News | Bristol Team Unites with Boston Univ Engineering Students to Improve Meldin® Split Piston RingsBy: Saint-Gobain Seals "They were very intrigued in working with our company because of the kindness our engineer, Carlos Hinton, had shown them in the initial communication. Once the students arrived for a tour and a better introduction to the proposed projects, we found that this year's group of students were all female engineers, which we thought was great to see so many females in a usually male-dominated profession," Currently, women make up about 47 percent of the labor force, but only 27 percent are part of the manufacturing industry. There are a number of factors that contribute to the lack of female engineers going into or remaining in technical fields such as encountering sexism, having a lack of representation, being stereotyped and experiencing motherhood; however, in all stages of the engineering profession, women are necessary in order to address the industry's growing labor need. Lacombe, who just received her five year service award, added, "They really felt it was empowering to work with a woman in such a male-dominated industry. They were able to see how far women have come in the industry and in this company alone." The improved efficiency of the Meldin® split piston rings is extremely valuable since the product is used in many automotive core applications such as brake systems for active safety and climate control systems for driving comfort. The Bristol site is Saint-Gobain Seals' key location in the United States for their automotive customers and supports other key sites in Wertheim and Neuhaus, Germany; and Minhang, China. Aside from split piston rings, the Meldin® (http://www.seals.saint- To learn more about Saint-Gobain Seals' Meldin® product lines or its strategic business unit, please visit www.seals.saint- About Saint-Gobain Seals (www.seals.saint- Saint-Gobain Seals is a strategic business unit under Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics' Engineered Components SOA (sector of activity); our parent company, Saint-Gobain, is one of the world's top 100 industrial groups as well as one of the oldest manufacturing companies in the world with 350 years of excellence. With more than 50 years of manufacturing experience and an established global presence (with strategic sites in Garden Grove, California and Bristol, Rhode Island, USA; Kontich, Belgium; Neuhaus and Wertheim, Germany; and Minhang, Shanghai, China), we offer a diverse range of critical parts for extreme applications that are designed to protect core systems. --OmniSeal® Sealing Control --Rulon® Wear & Friction Control --Meldin® Tolerance Control End
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