Stainless steel parts for the cooling system and other vehicle systems eliminate an important disadvantage of cars.

Most often, cooling system parts are made of plastic or ferrous metal. These materials have their own peculiarities in operation and cause environmental pollution:

  • Plastic parts are subject to gradual degradation, which leads to a decrease in their strength, and at some point they abruptly fail (break). This causes the cooling system to suddenly lose its tightness, antifreeze to leak and evaporate, and the car to lose mobility. If the engine was operating under high load at the time, there is a risk of serious damage. 

In terms of environmental impact, the first part is made of plastic, which is not easily recyclable and must withstand high temperatures during operation. Then, at the moment of failure, a significant amount of antifreeze is released into the environment, which is toxic and impossible to collect and dispose of at that moment. And if the engine overheats, the cost of repairing it can lead to the entire vehicle being written off. 

Even in the most advanced countries in terms of recycling technologies, the level of recycling materials in car recycling does not exceed 40%, and in those with a higher average age of cars, it is much lower, so the broken part and similar ones will most likely end up in a landfill.

  • In this respect, ferrous metal parts are slightly better. Although they do fail, the leakage through them starts gradually. On the one hand, this does not result in the immediate release of all the antifreeze from the system into the environment, but on the other hand, the owner tends to gradually add fluid until the leak becomes significant in order to find the cause and fix it, so the total amount of antifreeze pollution can be either greater or less, depending on the specifics of the situation. In terms of recycling, a metal part is better than a plastic part, as it can be recycled using a fairly common technology, but due to the thin walls that are already heavily damaged by corrosion, the percentage of material recovered will be low.


A stainless steel part behaves differently.

Firstly, it is guaranteed to last longer than the car, and all this time it is reliably protected from antifreeze leakage.

Secondly, due to its reliability, it allows the car to be operated for longer, and therefore does not require resources to replace it.

And thirdly, at the end of its service life, such a part can either be resold to another car, which is widely practiced (as its quality has not deteriorated in any way over the years), or recycled with a very high percentage of material recovery - the loss of stainless steel during remelting is a matter of percentage, and the material collection system provides for its separate collection and disposal, which preserves valuable alloying elements.  

Thus, the use of stainless steel cooling system parts dramatically reduces the environmental impact over the entire life cycle of the part compared to original plastic and ferrous metal solutions.


We should also mention the issue of repairing rubber hoses with branches, for which ACS produces special repair inserts. In addition to fluid leakage, replacing the hose assembly leads to the disposal of hard-to-recycle reinforced rubber to landfill. If the hose is repaired, the weakness in the hose is eliminated, making it more likely to last until the end of the vehicle's service life.


ACS, as part of its responsible approach to resource conservation, plans to buy back used products, after which they can be cleaned, tested to the same stringent requirements as new products, and re-sold at a more affordable price, but the launch of this project has been delayed due to the hostilities in Ukraine.