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Minnesota Rubber & Plastics provides critical rubber and plastic sealing solutions across a multitude of demanding applications and industries.

Minnesota Rubber & Plastics (MRP), now part of Trelleborg is one of the world’s leading developers, manufacturers and suppliers of precision seals, bearings and custom-molded polymer components. It focuses on meeting the needs of industries that demand critical-to-function elastomeric and thermoplastic components.​

The combined expertise of Trelleborg and MRP provides customers with exceptional innovation opportunities.​

Find more information about how Trelleborg Sealing Solutions provides customers with tailor-made sealing and bearing solutions specifically developed to meet their applications, here.

Medical Device Components and Assembly

Scores of medical device companies, from diversified global leaders to midsize specialty manufacturers, turn to Minnesota Rubber & Plastics for our advanced material expertise.

For years, we’ve used science and technology to solve sealing problems for hundreds of medical applications. Minnesota Rubber & Plastics provides end-to-end services from design and development to manufacturing and assembly of precision components for medical device applications. Explore several applications below:

Water, Food and Beverage

Global leaders in the water filtration, faucet/fixture, and beverage dispensing markets lean on Minnesota Rubber & Plastics’ 75 years of material science, design and manufacturing expertise to solve their most challenging sealing problems.

We have a full portfolio of globally certified materials to perform in the most demanding applications, coupled with the one of the most experienced design teams in the industry. Minnesota Rubber & Plastics engineers and manufactures thousands of precision components designed for water, food and beverage applications. Explore some of these applications below:

Specialty Industrial

Custom seals in specialty industrial applications are critical to providing the capacity to keep the global supply chain and utilities running efficiently. Components in these critical applications made by original equipment manufacturers are in innovative products that efficiently move liquids, gases, electricity, telecommunications, and more across the globe.

Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (MRP) is uniquely positioned to offer both rubber and plastic combination parts for specialty industrial applications, including:

Infrastructure

The infrastructure market demands manufacturers have a deep knowledge and understanding of all-encompassing end-market applications.  The market also requires component design and materials-knowledge for products that function without failure, in demanding applications.

Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (MRP) is uniquely positioned to offer both rubber and plastic combination parts for infrastructure applications. This allows us to provide greater development and production efficiencies, thereby reducing development time and costs. From prototyping to final production, our advanced materials science and design engineering services provide timely answers to difficult design questions. Explore our applications, below:

Automotive

When friction, sealing, dimensional stability and wear are crucial, rely on us. Whether high-performance plastic or custom-molded rubber, we’ll deliver the high-quality seals, thrust washers, and other critical-to-function components your system needs to run smoothly and efficiently.

Minnesota Rubber & Plastics engineers and manufactures thousands of precision components designed for automotive applications. Explore several applications below: