Quadion, d.b.a. Minnesota Rubber and Plastics, a provider of highly engineered elastomer and thermoplastic solutions announced it is building a state-of-the-art innovation center adjacent to the company’s corporate headquarters in Plymouth, Minn. The new 9,000 ft2 innovation center will provide customers with direct access to some of the industry’s foremost materials scientists and engineers in…
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics awarded 2019 Medtronic Supplier Excellence Award
Quadion LLC, d.b.a. Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (“MRP” or the “Company”), a leading provider of highly engineered elastomer and thermoplastic solutions, announced today that it has received the 2019 Supplier Excellence Award from Medtronic. MRP is one of 10 companies from Medtronic’s base of over 48,000 direct and indirect suppliers to receive the award. This…
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics appoints Ken Pittman as sales manager for North America
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics announces the appointment of Ken Pittman to the position of Sales Manager for North America. Len Nunnery, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, announced the appointment stating that “Mr. Pittman possess a deep knowledge of the custom rubber component industry with over twenty years of successful industry experience. Mr. Pittman will…
Materials with high dielectric strength and highly lubricious materials
Visit booth #1943 to see Minnesota Rubber and Plastics presentation on Qmonix Elastomer 912T for medical developers in need of a USP Class VI certified material for bio-compatible applications. In addition, they will be show casing Quniton high-performance lubricious materials with permanent, low coefficient of friction (CoF) surface properties. Qmonix Elastomer 912T Developed for use…
High performance plastic seals for vehicle driveline application
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (MR&P) custom formulates high performance plastics to meet specific vehicle applications. Materials include PEEK™, Aurum®, Ultem® and Amodel®. MR&P utilizes over 65 years of experience custom designing and molding these high performance plastics for demanding vehicle driveline applications. Example – seals and thrust washers for vehicle transmissions. The material selected for…
How Assembly Design And Manufacturing Improves Products
By Ted Ahrenholtz, Design Engineer, Minnesota Rubber And Plastics Engineered components, when combined into assemblies, can advance a product’s performance as they have in today’s highly efficient and reliable automobiles. New standards are set when individual components are redesigned into more efficient assemblies leading to improved performance. Such is the case with vehicles of all…
Water valves convert materials to provide lighter solutions
Converting a precision-machined brass casting into a molded assembly complete with threaded inserts proved challenging for Minnesota Rubber and Plastics’ design engineers. The project – a dual tank water treatment control valve that provides a continuous supply of softened water from one tank while a second tank is being regenerated. Critical to reliable water softener…
Introducing the Two-Piece Reinforced Nylon Check Valve
Improved oil flow control in marine and industrial engines was accomplished by Minnesota Rubber and Plastics with a new check valve design that simplified manufacture while reducing part weight and cost. Using glass reinforced Nylon, Minnesota Rubber and Plastics designed, molded and assembled a unique two-piece oil filter check valve that allows switching between two…
How Overmolding Improves Product Performance
Ted Ahrenholtz, Design Engineer, Minnesota Rubber and Plastics Creating molded rubber parts with inserts involves considerable preparation before and after molding. These tips can help ensure a durable finished part while minimizing production costs. Overmolding deserves more credit than it gets for improving the performance of today’s products. Every industry benefits from this process as…
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics provides miniaturized components
Enhanced component or assembly performance often requires advanced polymers including custom blends. This is particularly true designing fluid delivery systems, or for many static or dynamic applications. Minnesota Rubber and Plastics molds miniature components for these devices using custom blends of PEEK, polycarbonate, polysulphone, Nylon, polyethylene and polypropylene. Many of these components are as small…
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics Improved Test Seal
Designing and molding complex sealing assemblies for intelligent electronic devices is a core expertise of Minnesota Rubber and Plastics. Typical of this expertise is a test collection cell assembly that the company redesigned and manufactured for use in a printed circuit board (PCB) contamination tester. The PCB testers check areas of circuitry as small as…