PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release Friday, June 11, 2010

Contact: Noel LaBine 763-477-3086

Sil-Pro holds Open House in Delano

 

Delano , MN : After one of is best years ever, Sil-Pro celebrated with an open house in Delano on June 10, 2010. With the big white tents, live music, and grilled pork chops outside guests could also tour the inside and look at the dazzling display of quality clean rooms and one of the leanest, smartest silicone operations in the United States (or the world, for that matter).

Sil-Pro specializes in custom molded and extruded silicone parts for the medical industry. Customers for this growing high-tech business include major national firms such as C.R. Bard, Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic Inc., St. Jude Medical Inc., and 3M Co.

Lee Carver, the founder, was on hand for the celebration. Carver enjoyed building this world-class company in Delano . He also liked the fact that his workers would be his neighbors. He knew the kind of people that would emerge from the regional labor pool would be people with a strong sense of community and a dedication to hard and precise work. Worker performance is crucial to Sil-Pro 's custom-made products, which must meet the exacting standards of the company's clients with absolute precision. This past year with a 47% growth in sales, the workers enjoyed their first substantial profit sharing, and employee motivation and pride could not be stronger.

About 97 percent of the firm's work is medical, mainly fashioning custom parts for long-term implants such as pacemakers, defibrillators, drug pumps and catheters. Successful functioning of a Sil-Pro product can be literally a matter of life and death. According to Lee Carver, “The quality has got to be unbelievable,”

All operations are performed in a Class 10,000 clean-room environment, which now has grown to 20,000 square feet. The appearance of the clean-room, and the entire facility, is pivotal. Most prospective customers insist on inspecting the facility prior to requesting part quotes. For this reason and also because of personal style the Sil-Pro facility is a beautiful thing to observe.

Kudos to Lee Carver, and current CEO, Kevin Carver , and all the employees at Sil-Pro for a job well done.

The Wright County Partnership on behalf of Wright County wishes to thank Sil-Pro for doing business in Wright County . We're proud of you, too!

 

The Partnership exists to enhance the business climate of Wright County and to help create more jobs in Wright County . The strategies the Partnership uses to achieve its mission include being an information resource and finding technical assistance; aiding business development through Business Retention & Expansion visits, providing financing resources, and providing business information and training through seminars and workshops. Also, the Partnership markets Wright County to business site locators, and maintains an excellent website, which includes a listing of commercial and industrial property available in Wright County (see www.wrightpartnership.org ). The Partnership also assists with Workforce Development and has gathered economic statistical information, which is available on its website.