Cri-Tech, Inc

Founded in 1977, Cri-Tech is the leader in full service formulation development and custom compounding of high performance elastomers, thermoplastics and specialty products. Cri-Tech has demonstrated the ability to grow and innovate even in tough market times. This robust business climate allows Cri-Tech to maintain a deep technical staff and make continued investments in manufacturing, testing and quality systems.  Cri-Tech consolidated its manufacturing and warehouse locations in 2008 into a 55,000 square-foot state of the art mixing facility.  Since then, we have made significant investments in the operation to create an ultra-low contamination “clean” mixing operation. Changes included the complete separation between color and black mixing lines, equipment redesign with enclosed/vented motors, enhanced dust collection, HEPA filter air curtains, as well as stainless steel contact/close contact surfaces. Also added were 5S Tool locating surgical stainless steel inspection/ packaging tables and a HEPA filtered Micro-photograph contamination inspection area. In 2016 this effort continued with the addition of a new clean room for straining, preform and packaging. With this unique mixing capability in place, Cri-Tech continues to grow its core business in Oil & Gas, Automotive and Aerospace, while pushing into new areas such as food contact, pharmaceutical, and medical.  Quality leads the way at Cri-Tech with systems that include an inventory management with 100% traceability from raw material to batch, bar code enforced Inventory transactions, FIFO System (enforced Shelf Life Control) resulting in better than 99.9% inventory accuracy.  All systems (Lot Trace, Weigh-up, Mesabi Mix Vision, Mill Sensors, and Test Lab) are interconnected to allow real time root cause analysis.  The plant has internal mixers with over 8 million lbs of capacity and has broadened its product offering and material expertise into high performance thermoplastics with the addition of an Inconel twin-screw compounding line sized for both development and specialty production supply.  While Cri-Tech’s internal focus is on quality, our external focus is on you. We tailor our services to match both your material performance and delivery requirements.