Cooper Standard continues to progress its diversification strategy through its Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and announces three new agreements to jointly develop commercial applications of its proprietary Fortrex™ chemistry platform. Two agreements have been signed with consumer goods companies and the third signed with an industrial goods company, bringing the total agreements signed in 2019 to six. Due to joint nondisclosure agreements, the specific customers and targeted product applications will not be disclosed. The ATG is charged with accelerating and maximizing the value stream of Cooper Standard's manufacturing expertise in the Company's core process types for applications in the industrial and specialty markets. This business also drives growth through the Company's applied materials science offerings, which include the Fortrex™ chemistry platform that provides performance advantages over many other materials. Fortrex™ is an innovative chemistry platform used to create lightweight elastomeric materials that offer significant performance advantages over EPDM synthetic rubber, TPV and many other materials in terms of weight reduction, compression set, weathering and durability. Fortrex™, which won the 2018 Automotive News PACE Award and was a 2018 and 2019 Society of Plastics Engineers Innovation Award finalist, can take on many forms, including dense extrusions, foams and membranes that can be tuned for an endless list of applications and performance solutions.