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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: September 1, 2005

Robinson Rubber Products announces specialty Medical-Dental Division

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Robinson Rubber Products announces it has formed a Medical-Dental Division to provide specialty rubber services for manufacturers of instruments and devices in these industries.

“Bonding rubber components securely to other substrates to ensure sanitary medical and dental conditions is a special capability — one in which Robinson Rubber Products excels,” says Kenn Nordstrom, vice president of sales and marketing, Robinson Rubber Products. “Our experience in medical and dental industries — including clean room manufacturing — and expertise in engineering and performance testing makes Robinson Rubber the obvious choice for excellence-oriented manufacturers.”

Robinson Rubber Products produces molded rubber and silicone components for medical and dental device and instrument manufacturers as well as molded rubber and silicone bonded to substrates including plastic, stainless steel, titanium, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), wire harnesses, dual durometers and electrically conductive materials.

In addition to device and instrument production, Robinson Rubber Products provides engineering and technical services to assist manufacturers. Those services include component design assistance, materials and compound formulation development, prototype services, multiple component assemblies, special packaging, and performance testing and evaluation.

Enhancing manufacturing capabilities at its facilities, Robinson Rubber Products has alliances with partners around the world to provide cost-effective, innovative solutions for customers’ global rubber needs. These partners comprise Robinson Rubber Products’ Global Resource Initiative, through which the company outsources components to provide comprehensive, seamless service to customers. Manufacturing partners in Robinson Rubber’s Global Resource Initiative program are ISO or QS-9000 certified, and their products meet certification or compliance standards, including ASTM, JIS, FDA, Mil-Spec, NSF 51/61, WRC, DIN, KTW-D2 and WRAS.

Privately owned Robinson Rubber Products Company, Inc. is based in Minneapolis. Robinson Rubber Products has more than 50 years’ experience designing, developing and manufacturing custom-molded rubber components, extruded profiles and precision rollers for medical and dental device and instrumentation, original equipment, and industrial companies around the world.

Robinson Rubber Products Company, Inc.
4600 Quebec Ave. N.
Minneapolis, MN 55428
763-535-6737
sales@robinsonrubber.com