Medical Design and Manufacturing West (United States) | April 12-14, 2022
Stop by our exhibit at Medical Design and Manufacturing West (MD&M) in Anaheim, California on April 12-14. Learn about our latest advances in materials science and details about our new about our new Innovation Center, only weeks away from opening! The new center will bring the entire product development process — materials science, design, production-intent prototyping, tooling, pre-production manufacturing, and testing — under one roof.

Additionally, we’re excited to share the benefits of our recent acquisition of Primasil Silicones. Learn about Primasil’s expertise in custom silicone material formulation, mixing and molding, and how it complements our portfolio and renowned materials science and molding capabilities.

For Exclusive Early Access Registration to our Innovation Center Virtual Grand Opening, and to talk with our experts and meet Primasil Silicones, now officially part of the Minnesota Rubber & Plastics family, visit us at booth # 2844. Can’t attend in-person? Check out our listing in the online exhibitor portal. Learn more or register for MD&M West .

Other Upcoming Events
We look forward to seeing you throughout 2022! Check out our upcoming events page and find us at an event near you.

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Now, even as the pandemic subsides, the benefits derived from a renewed emphasis on product innovation is creating additional demand for innovation across the entire medical device industry. But the same barriers to innovation remain. Namely, that truly innovative engineering for highly reliable medical devices requires specialized skillsets to meet material and design requirements—and, most importantly, to develop the desired end-use functionality.

Most medical device organizations’ close relationships with their customers allow them to identify what the market wants—and where the market is heading next. But bringing those ideas to life often takes multiple rounds of prototyping in order to reach a final, manufacturable design that meets every specification—with every delay representing significant lost revenue. , only 21% of executives feel they have the internal expertise, resources, and commitment to pursue these new growth opportunities successfully on their own. 

Minnesota Rubber & Plastics (MRP) specializes in addressing this very challenge. For over 75 years, MRP’s materials scientists and engineers have helped in-house engineering teams develop devices and therapies with advanced elastomer and thermoplastic solutions. When presented with difficult sealing and component challenges, MRP’s team of engineers brings design experience from decades of medical device projects—and hundreds of device innovations—to offer new ideas and simple solutions to maximize device performance.

The secret to achieving faster speed-to-market and earlier consensus during the design process? Materials scientists, centralized manufacturing and specialized engineering staff that engage in a completely collaborative experience. MRP engineers are eager to get involved at the early stages of research and development, working with in-house teams from requirements building to prototyping to final production. Throughout the MRP innovation process, engineers walk in-house teams through a consultative process including exercises specifically designed to discover, design, develop and deploy a winning solution.

As the need for medical device innovation accelerates in the pandemic’s aftermath, the entire healthcare market is shifting to value return-on-investment (ROI), performance and device longevity like never before. The manufacturers that rise to the top of this new healthcare ecosystem will be those who are able to collaborate with the right experts to help them meet these rising expectations and deliver innovative solutions that tick each one of these boxes. Learn more about our medical device components capabilities.

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MINNEAPOLIS – June 29, 2021
Quadion LLC, d.b.a. Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (“MRP” or the “Company”), a leading provider of highly engineered elastomer and thermoplastic solutions for the Medical, Water, and Industrial end markets, announced today its acquisition of Pawling Engineered Products (“Pawling”), a Pawling, New York-based custom elastomeric inflatable seal and extruded solutions provider.

“We’re thrilled to add Pawling, a company with a 75-year history of supplying unique, highly specialized elastomer solutions for mission-critical applications, to our family, and believe their dedication to superior in-house product design and custom materials formulation is highly complementary to MRP’s capabilities,” said Jay Ward, CEO of Minnesota Rubber and Plastics. “Innovation is at the heart of what we do, and this acquisition comes at an important time in our company’s history, as we’re set to expand and invest in technologies that drive highly differentiated value for our customers.”

Pawling’s product portfolio includes a wide range of highly engineered elastomer products, including inflatable seals and clamps, custom compression seals, gaskets, tubing, extrusion, and other elastomeric fabrications designed for critical and demanding applications.

The addition of Pawling’s capabilities will complement MRP’s existing offerings, which include highly engineered elastomer and thermoplastic solutions for medical device, water, food and beverage, transportation, and other essential industries globally. MRP has built a strong reputation over the course of its 76-year history for designing, developing, manufacturing and assembling products for harsh environments, tight tolerances, and technically demanding applications, including multi-material solutions and custom material formulations.

 “The Pawling team is extremely excited about this opportunity. The potential synergies between the two companies are endless, and will allow us to become a better partner for all our stakeholders. We are ready to take this next step,” says Craig Busby, President of Pawling. “The cultures at MRP and Pawling align perfectly, recognizing employee engagement and market-driven innovation as the cornerstones of success. We’re not just acquiring great products and intellectual property; we’re adding a great team. We plan to extend ownership participation to all the new colleagues we welcome with Pawling,” added Ward.

Busby will continue to lead Pawling, reporting into the MRP organization.

Ballard Spahr LLP served as advisors to MRP, while Holland and Knight LLP served as advisors to Pawling.

About Pawling Engineered Products

Since 1946, Pawling Engineered Products, Inc. has provided customers with superior in-house design assistance for custom elastomer products, such as elastomeric seals, gaskets, and tubes. Pawling Engineered Products is a vertically integrated business designing, selling and manufacturing the Pneuma-Seal® custom elastomer inflatable seal, clamp, and actuator product line. Other capabilities include custom elastomer and plastic products, silicone tubing, and Cepure® brand septa and closure liners for the laboratory market. Pawling Engineered Products has been ISO 9001 certified since 1994. For more information, please visit .

About Minnesota Rubber and Plastics

Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (MRP) is a global leader in material compound development, engineering, design, and manufacturing of custom elastomeric and thermoplastic components and assemblies. For more than 76 years, the Company has built a reputation for consultative design services, successful production of “the tough parts,” and best-in-class service. With facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia, MRP collaborates with world-class organizations to solve difficult sealing and component challenges. The Company’s full-service capabilities include materials science and formulation, new product prototyping and development, operational excellence, and supply chain consolidation. The Company places emphasis on research and development in both elastomers and thermoplastics, which empowers MRP technicians to design, formulate, develop, and test a wide range of highly engineered materials and parts. For more information, please visit www.mnrubber.com.

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Medical Design and Manufacturing West (United States)
Our return to in-person events will begin with a space on the exhibit floor of Medical Design and Manufacturing West (MD&M) in Anaheim, California on August 10-12. Engage with us to learn about some of our latest advances in our materials science. Also, learn more about our accelerating investments that will take our new product engineering to a new level of capability and responsiveness. Visit us at booth 3268 at the event or check out our listing in the online exhibitor portal. Learn more or register for MD&M West at .

Other Upcoming Events
We look forward to a busy events season for the medical technology industry in the back-half of 2021. Check out our upcoming events page and find us at an event near you.

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Best Collaboration Supplier Award Exclusively Awarded to Minnesota Rubber and Plastics
During the supplier day, MRP was honored to be presented with an exclusive award by Medtronic as the best collaboration supplier for its 2021 Fiscal Year. Medtronic supplier awards recognize outstanding commitment to Medtronic’s Global Supplier Standards, in delivering superior and balanced performance across the key performance categories of quality, service, cost, innovation, and delivery.

About Minnesota Rubber and Plastics
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is a global technology leader in elastomer and thermoplastic solutions, with engineering and manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. With deep materials science expertise, MRP offers full service capabilities that range from engineering mission-critical components to providing complete manufacturing solutions for technically demanding applications. Learn more about our medical device capabilities.

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The Litchfield, Minnesota facility in the United States provides elastomer (including LSR) molding, plastic molding, advanced testing and assembly services for our global customers. The 70,000 square foot, ISO 13485 certified and FDA registered site continues to provide expanded capabilities. In the last year alone, the operation brought six new injection molding presses online, added two advanced vision inspection machines to further advance our advanced quality assurance capabilities, and is nearing the completion of a substantial ISO class 8 medical clean room expansion of over 700 square feet.

Advancing Our Global Manufacturing, Testing and Assembly Operations
All of our global facilities continue to receive substantial investment, similar to our investments in Minnesota. In our interconnected world, businesses need protection from supply chain disruption risks. To enhance your supply chain continuity, your elastomer and thermoplastic components and assemblies can be manufactured and supported in several locations we have around the world. Additionally, we provide flexible fulfillment options and capabilities in prototype development and co-development in many geographies.

About Minnesota Rubber and Plastics
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is a global technology leader in elastomer and thermoplastic solutions, with engineering and manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. With deep materials science expertise, MRP offers full service capabilities that range from engineering mission-critical components to providing complete manufacturing solutions for technically demanding applications.

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Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is a proud sponsor of the 2021 America Heart Association Twin Cities Heart Walk. In 2020, Minnesota Rubber and Plastics was a top fundraiser in the effort.

As a proud sponsor, we will once again be walking to support and honor those that have been touched by heart disease and stroke, to support continued research and innovation, and to be a part of building a healthier Minnesota community. Here are just a few examples of the amazing work the AHA has done this past year. These initiatives are made possible through fundraising events like the Heart Walk:

Local Investment in Covid-19 ����ֱ��
The AHA has awarded 12 scientific teams more than $2.5 million in rapid response research to study heart and brain health correlation to COVID-19 including Mayo Clinic locally in Minnesota. The AHA is working diligently to provide reliable, science-based information for the approximately 120 million people in the United States who currently have one or more cardiovascular conditions and who already may be at higher risk for COVID-19 complications as well as those who live in historically excluded communities hit hard by COVID-19 and systemic health disparities. Participating in events like the Heart Walk helps to drive this lifesaving work forward and offers thousands of Minnesotans critical resources in times of need.

Don’t Die of Doubt
The American Heart Association launched a national and localized educational campaign, Don’t Die of Doubt, to encourage the community to seek necessary and appropriate medical treatment during COVID. Countless lives have already been saved due to the awareness this message brings to the community. The AHA, the corporate community, and healthcare, all have stressed the importance of not ignoring signs and symptoms of a heart attack and are working together to ensure no one Dies of Doubt.

The Heart Walk will take place on Saturday, May 22^nd and we want to invite Twin Cities community members to join us!

About Minnesota Rubber and Plastics
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is a global technology leader in elastomer and thermoplastic solutions, with engineering and manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. With deep materials science expertise, MRP offers full service capabilities that range from engineering mission-critical components to providing complete manufacturing solutions for technically demanding applications.

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The safety and well-being of Minnesota Rubber & Plastics (MRP) employees is the primary focus of the organization. MRP follows guidance from government authorities and takes additional safeguards, while maintaining commitments to the communities we serve as an essential business.

Employee Safety and Well-Being
MRP has a detailed COVID-19 program centered around health and safety, social distancing, sanitation, and education and training for employees at all of our facilities. Some examples of safeguards taken during the pandemic include:

• Company-provided facemasks available for all employees
• Employing dividers, signs and other markers to maintain social distancing
• Providing complimentary sanitizing products to employees and increasing cleaning protocols
• Detailed training tailored to management and staff about COVID-19
• Communication and signage in compliance with all CDC regulations

Maintaining Our Commitments to Customers and Communities
MRP products are used in critical industry applications including healthcare, food and beverage, and transportation. Our communities rely on our products to maintain continued reliable operations in these industries. We take this commitment seriously and are committed to continuation of our services, manufacturing and logistical operations. Throughout the pandemic we have been able to maintain operations without significant interruption to-date.

About Minnesota Rubber and Plastics
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is a global technology leader in elastomer and thermoplastic solutions, with engineering and manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. With deep materials science expertise, MRP offers full service capabilities that range from engineering mission-critical components to providing complete manufacturing solutions for technically demanding applications.

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Grab your favorite digital device and explore the new mnrubber.com. We think you’ll like what you see! Our new website, with a refreshed modern design, is designed to be friendly to use on all major mobile and desktop devices, and browser types. It is also more accessible for more users. Additionally, we have substantial new content that can help you learn about our core solutions, and our core service offerings. You will also find more detailed information about our most popular applications listed in some of the major markets we serve.

Wondering how our products have helped customers recently? Check out new case studies including a high performance medical seal, and a more durable seal that reduced warranty claims for a premium water softener manufacturer.

Worried some of the tools and resources have been removed? We have retained most of our popular content including our popular design guides, our materials library & data sheets, and quality and environmental certifications.

Check back often for more updates as MRP celebrates its 75^th anniversary and makes the content and experience even better!

About Minnesota Rubber and Plastics

Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is a global technology leader in elastomer and thermoplastic solutions, with engineering and manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. With deep materials science expertise, MRP offers full service capabilities that range from engineering mission-critical components to providing complete manufacturing solutions for technically demanding applications.

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For example, MRP developed a unique test method to measure the viscoelastic behavior of 5 different molded parts using DMA for a customer. MRP was able to identify that the tan delta¹ was highest for failing parts. MRP developed a maximum allowable value for this unit of measure and is in the process of implementing this test method into a control plan for the customer’s products, which will drive improved performance and reduced service cost.

Read more about MRP materials science & formulation capabilities and our on- premise advanced materials lab here.

¹ Tan delta is a measure of viscoelastic behavior of a material by quantifying the way in which a material absorbs and disperses energy.

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The 2020 Twin Cities Heart Walk will be held on May 16, bringing together more than 20,000 walkers at Target Field in Minneapolis. The walk consists of a fitness festival featuring fun activities to get attendees active while also paying tribute to their friends and family who have been affected by heart disease and stroke.

“The Heart Walk is a special event for the American Heart Association. Now moving into its 26th year, the walk raises critical funds for research and lifesaving programs dedicated to heart health and stroke prevention,” said Krista Moffett, Vice President of the Twin Cities Heart Walk. “We are thrilled to have MRP’s leadership and commitment to saving lives and changing lives. We are confident that MRP’s significant financial investment will help us raise more funds than ever before as we work toward a healthier community.”

“It’s an honor to be a part of this great event, which has made a tremendous impact in raising support and awareness in the community for the past 25 years,” said Jay Ward, CEO at MRP. “Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is proud to continue working with the American Heart Association in its mission of fighting heart disease and stroke as both a supplier of critical plastic and elastomer parts in cardiovascular care as well as now a key donor.”

MRP’s Medical business supports many cardiovascular related product solutions and applications. In addition to high performance silicone, rubber and thermoplastic components, MRP provides the medical industry with comprehensive services in product design, engineering, and advanced materials science solutions. MRP’s ISO Class 7/8 clean rooms and assembly services support its high volume molded parts capabilities, and enable it to provide customers with the critical quality and delivery requirements they have come to expect.

MRP investor KKR is a strong advocate of the partnership and the company’s commitment to supporting those in need.

“This partnership marks another milestone in KKR’s effort to align our U.S. Industrial portfolio companies with not-for-profit partners who benefit from that company’s technology and share in a mission of improving the quality of life for others,” said Pete Stavros, Minnesota Rubber and Plastics Board member and KKR Co-Head of Americas Private Equity.

About Minnesota Rubber and Plastics

Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is a global technology leader in elastomer and thermoplastic solutions, with engineering and manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. With deep materials science expertise, MRP offers full service capabilities that range from engineering mission-critical components to providing complete manufacturing solutions for technically demanding applications.

About the American Heart Association

The American Heart Association is a leading force for a world of longer, healthier lives. With nearly a century of lifesaving work, the Dallas-based association is dedicated to ensuring equitable health for all. We are a trustworthy source empowering people to improve their heart health, brain health and well-being. We collaborate with numerous organizations and millions of volunteers to fund innovative research, advocate for stronger public health policies, and share lifesaving resources and information. Connect with us locally at , @HeartAssocMN or by calling 1-800-AHA-USA1.

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This award recognizes MRP’s outstanding commitment to Medtronic’s Global Supplier Standards, in delivering superior and balanced performance across the key performance categories of quality, service, cost, innovation, and delivery.

“On behalf of the entire MRP team, we are proud and extremely appreciative of this recognition from our longstanding partner, Medtronic. This award underscores MRP’s commitment to supporting Medtronic in providing patients with uninterrupted therapy, by consistently exceeding standards and raising the bar through adaptability, flexibility, and teamwork to provide high quality service. We continue to focus on supporting Medtronic in fulfilling its mission to meet the needs of patients and customers around the world, and look forward to our continued partnership,” said Don Bonitati, Director, Medical Market at MRP.

MRP’s Medical business supports product solutions applications within Drug Delivery, Cardiovascular, Diagnostic, Surgical, and Orthopedic end-markets. In addition to high performance silicone, rubber and thermoplastic components, MRP provides the medical industry with comprehensive services in product design and engineering, development, DFM, and advanced materials science solutions. MRP’s Class 10,000 and 100,000 clean rooms and assembly services support its high volume molded parts capabilities, and enable it to provide customers with the critical quality and delivery requirements they have come to expect.

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