Cooper-Standard

McElya honored for role in Cooper-Standard rescue

12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 14, 2013
James McElya has seen just about every possible scenario played out in his 33 years in the automotive supplier market. He was there when most large industrial companies owned auto supplier divisions and lived through up and down markets, major technology shifts and the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression.... Read More »

 

Early hardship forged McElya's desire to give back

12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 14, 2013
James McElya didn't have a typical childhood. Left at the Salvation Army when he was 6 weeks old, this year's Rubber Industry Executive of the Year, as named by Rubber & Plastics News, was in and out of 11 foster homes by the time he turned 18. How he has operated as head of Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. is due, in large part, to his past.... Read More »

 

Supplier personnel

12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 9, 2012
Personnel changes for The Car Connectivity Consortium, Calstart and Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc.... Read More »

 

Cooper-Standard names CEO

12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 8, 2012
Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. has hired Jeffrey Edwards, a Johnson Controls Inc. executive, as CEO.... Read More »

 

JCI exec Edwards to replace McElya as CEO of Cooper-Standard

10:58 am U.S. ET | Oct. 2, 2012
Supplier Cooper-Standard Holdings is hiring Johnson Controls executive Jeffrey Edwards as its new president and CEO. Edwards will succeed longtime Cooper-Standard executive James McElya, effective Oct. 15.... Read More »

 

DUSTIN WALSH

Cooper-Standard exec thinks suppliers can navigate European turmoil

3:10 pm U.S. ET | Aug. 7, 2012
Nobody from an auto supplier, manufacturer or consulting firm can avoid lamenting about Europe's economic strife and what it's doing to the global industry.... Read More »