Please join us at our Open House! Get a facility tour featuring our newly expanded cleanroom and LSR operations. See demos of lab testing, rubber milling, injection molding, secondary operations, automated inspection, shipping and tool shop. Thursday, September 15, 2022 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Lunch served from 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Precision Associates, [...]
This is a notification regarding the planned reformulation of Precision Associates, Inc. (PAI) general purpose silicone compound 19711. This notification is intended to meet the change notification requirements included in any quality or supply agreements we have in place with your company. If no agreement is in place, we are fulfilling our commitment to providing [...]
This is a notification of a planned reformulation of several of the Precision Associates, Inc. (PAI) FDA Fluorocarbon compounds. This notification is intended to meet the change notification requirements included in any quality or supply agreements we have in place with your company. If no agreement is in place, we are fulfilling our commitment to [...]
Precision Associates, Inc. (PAI), a provider of high-performance, consistent sealing solutions and precision-molded rubber products, recently completed a significant cleanroom expansion in its 130,000-square foot Minneapolis facility. The now 13,000-square foot ISO Class 7 cleanroom will allow the company to meet growing demand for rubber part manufacturing from current and new medical device and other [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports on manufacturers response to the Omicron variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus in the United States. With short supply, limited staff and rising costs, manufacturers across the country are experiencing new challenges to meet demand while keeping employees safe. Bradley Kadue, president, shared how PAI recently reintroduced a mask mandate for [...]
Precision Associates, Inc. (PAI), a provider of high-performance, consistent sealing solutions and precision-molded rubber products, has released a new white paper titled Fundamentals of medical device process validation for molded rubber and other parts. This white paper explores how, when carefully planned and properly performed, process validation can improve overall quality, reduce cost and scrap, [...]
PAI is proud to announce it has received a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certification for the production of rubber seals used in processing machinery.
The engineering team at Precision Associates, Inc. (PAI) recognized the need to modernize their equipment in order to open up a new range of capabilities and increase their efficiency. After looking at several options, they chose to partner with DESMA on their first new injection molding press. Upon receiving and onboarding the first DESMA machine, [...]
Precision Associate's Sales Engineer, Dan Meydell presented the monthly Sealing Your Success Webinar, entitled "Friction Reducing Rubber Additives and Surface Treatments" for the International Sealing Distribution Association. Friction in many applications using rubber products and seals is undesirable and the reduction of said friction is a goal of many engineers and end users. While [...]
Youtuber, RCSubGuy uses the watertight, low-friction properties of U-Cup seals for a watertight seal on remote control submarines. PAI’s 70 durometer black-colored Buna N compound 5747 U-Cups resists pressure from water even at significant depths. Learn more