IMMI – Seat Belts for Polaris RZR XP 1000
One of Stern Rubber’s newest customers is Indiana Mills and Manufacturing, or IMMI. IMMI produces seat belts, tie downs, and safety equipment for everything from UTV’s to fire trucks. IMMI has facilities located in the USA, Mexico, UK, and China, and is headquartered in Westfield, Indiana.
For the outdoors market, they make tie down systems and tow straps that are marketed as CargoBuckle, and BoatBuckle. Many of these are retractable, and many can be permanently mounted. These include ties downs for trailers, straps for attaching a boat to the trailer, fishing rod holders, boat light holders, and trolling motor tie downs. Click here to see their entire catalog of outdoor equipment.
Some of the other types of industries that they serve include school buses, commercial trucks, fire trucks, military, child seating, motor coach, off road construction vehicles, and UTV vehicles.
For buses, IMMI makes base seats, along with ones with seat belts, and integrated child seats.
For commercial trucks and fire apparatus, they have a system called RollTek, which is specifically designed to offer advanced protection in a rollover accident. RollTek senses an impending rollover and tightens the seat belts, pulls the suspension seat to its lowest level to increase survivable space, and deploys side airbags to cushion the head and neck, which gives the driver a better chance to survive. They also have a system called 4Front that was created for head-on collisions. When 4Front senses a collision, it tightens the seal belts, pulls the suspension seat down to increase the survivable space, and inflates a steering wheel airbag to protect the head and neck of the occupants.
They also make restraints for a resting passenger that is in a bunk in the back of a commercial vehicle, along with custom seat belts that can include their Komfort Latch that relieves seat belt tension, a seat belt height adjuster, high visibility seat belt webbing, a rugged latch, a retractor, and electric switch options.
IMMI produces specific items for the fire service such as SmartDock, which is a hands-free SCBA (self contained breathing apparatus) holder, and ReadyReach, which is made specifically to go over the bulky, heavy gear that is worn by firefighters. ReadyReach allows firefighters to grab their seat belts and buckle in one-handed.
IMMI also owns its own testing facility, known as CAPE. Here, the do testing, including crash testing of commercial vehicles such as semis, buses, and fire trucks. The have the biggest barrier block in the world to put some of the world’s biggest vehicles to the test. They do trailer under-ride, oblique and offset tests and vehicle to vehicle crash testing. They also built a 90 degree dynamic rollover impact machine to better understand how injuries occur in a rollover.
Stern Rubber has been doing business with IMMI since early 2015, and is producing a strap that goes on a seat belt assembly that IMMI is providing to Polaris Industries. The assembly is being installed on a Polaris RZR XP 1000. The strap improves the comfort of their shoulder strap, as it pulls it down onto the shoulder of the rider, instead of catching the operator on the side of the neck or face. To see these in action, stop into your local Polaris dealer and climb into a new Polaris RZR 1000, and check out the seat belt.