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About Teel Plastics

Custom Plastic Products from Design to Scaled Production

Teel Plastics is a contract manufacturer of custom plastic products, providing engineered solutions across medical, industrial pipe, water treatment, cosmetics, and film core markets. We partner with customers from product design and development through full-scale production.

Founded in 1951 and headquartered in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Teel Plastics has more than seven decades of experience helping companies design, develop, test, and manufacture high-quality plastic products. Today, Teel operates four manufacturing facilities and serves customers worldwide with capabilities including design and development, extrusion, injection molding, analytical testing, and secondary operations. Our TeelDAS subsidiary manufactures custom devices for the pest control industry.

What Does Teel Plastics Manufacture?

Teel manufactures custom plastic tubing and piping, injection molded parts, and other engineered plastic products for a wide range of industries.

Extrusion

Teel Plastics specializes in custom plastic extrusion, producing precision tubing and piping for demanding and highly regulated applications. We process a wide range of thermoplastic materials, offer clean room extrusion, and support complex extrusion designs including multi-layer, multilumen, and small diameter constructions. We produce large-diameter pipe for regulated industrial markets such as the telecom and electrical, gas distribution, and water pipe markets.

Injection Molding

We offer prototyping scaled injection molding production with our fleet of 17 Arburgs of various sizes. Services include clean room molding and overmolding capabilities. Teel uses a scientific molding approach and engineering-driven product development process to optimize part performance, quality, and manufacturability. Teel’s molded products include medical, cosmetic, and water treatment devices and components.

Engineering, Testing, and Product Development

With a dedicated team of engineers and chemists, Teel provides engineering support, design-for-manufacturability assistance, product development, prototyping, and analytical testing through our in-house laboratory capabilities.

What Industries Does Teel Serve?

Medical

Teel manufactures extruded and injection molded components for medical device applications. We maintain an ISO 13485 certification for medical device quality systems and provide clean room manufacturing capabilities for regulated products.

Industrial Pipe

Teel produces plastic piping and related components used in industrial applications, such as gas pipe and conduit, that require durability, chemical resistance, and reliable performance.

Water Treatment

Teel manufactures plastic products for water treatment applications, including tubing, filtration-related components, reverse osmosis products, and other specialized solutions.

Cosmetics

Teel extrudes and injection molds custom plastic cosmetics components and offers assembly and testing capabilities.

Flex Film Cores

Teel produces precision plastic cores and components designed for industrial applications requiring consistency and dependable performance, such those used in the as paint protection and automotive film markets.

Why Choose Teel Plastics

Teel offers customers:

More than 70 years of plastics manufacturing experience
Advanced extrusion and injection molding expertise
Engineering support from concept through production
Quality-focused manufacturing systems
In-house analytical laboratory capabilities
Experience supporting regulated industries
Award-winning customer service (Plastics News Excellence Award and Manufacturer of the Year recognition)

Teel has built long-term success through strong customer relationships and a commitment to “providing quality and service second to none.” These efforts reflect our dedication to continuous improvement and expanding into new markets with unique product offerings.

Quality and Certifications

Teel Plastics maintains multiple quality system certifications:

ISO 9001 certification
ISO 13485 certification for medical device manufacturing
ISO/IEC 17025-accredited analytical laboratory capabilities

Discover More About Us And Why We Earned A Plastics Processor Of The Year Award.

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This Is How Far We Have Come

2026

Teel celebrates 75 years in business.

2025

Teel again expands cleanroom production space to support our rapid growth in the medical component market. The new expansion doubled cleanroom space for extruded medical products while also adding space for injection molding and assembly. An additional two production lines are added leaving space for further expansion of extrusion and secondary operations.

2024

Teel expands our medical production capacity, adding three production lines and new cleanroom space for extrusion and finishing operations. Secondary operations include custom handling and offline precision cutting for delicate parts.

2023

Teel was named the Plastics News 2022 Processor of the Year. The award is the top recognition of excellence in the plastics manufacturing industry sponsored by the Washington-based Plastics Industry Association. Applying for the award is a rigorous process involving written submission and in-person evaluation and interviews. Companies are judged based on customer service, environmental performance, employee relations, technological performance, financial performance, quality record, and industry and public service. Teel took top honors for our 2022 performance after a comparative evaluation of the North American finalists.

2022

Teel invests in expanding its Industrial Court facility, more than doubling available production space. Teel also consolidated warehousing into our Industrial Court facility to enhance efficiency for our film core, water treatment, and specialized industrial production operations.

2021

Teel celebrates 70 years in business (1951-2021). Teel also opened its fourth manufacturing facility in Baraboo on Industrial Court dedicated to our industrial pipe product line, including gas pipe, conduit, microduct, and multiduct.

2020

Teel was acquired by MPE Partners, a private equity firm, and became an LLC. Jay Smith remained as chairman of the board. The acquisition positioned Teel for continued growth. Also in 2020, Teel’s injection molding services received local and national media attention in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic for producing swab stick handles used in COVID-19 test kits.

2018

Teel’s quality system was certified to the ISO 13485 standard for medical devices. This standard is internationally recognized as the mark of quality systems for companies that produce medical devices. The certification was the culmination of two years of continuous work on improving all areas of the business. It is part of a strategy with renewed focus on growth in the medical market.

2017

Teel added injection molding services with the purchase of multiple Arburg injection molding machines, complementing its extrusion operation and adding new products.

2016

Teel Plastics was named Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year for its performance during 2015. The prestigious award compared Teel against companies in the manufacturing field throughout Wisconsin. Teel was judged on sixteen different categories that included everything from profit and customer satisfaction to employee engagement and community involvement. Teel is honored to have been recognized as a leader in its home state.

2013

Teel Analytical Laboratories, a division of Teel, became ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited and began offering its services to customers. The accreditation marked the organization as a first-class laboratory in the area of material science and polymer analysis. Teel Analytical Laboratories continues to offer confidential analysis services and consulting with a focus on polymer analysis.

2012

Teel sold its Pultrusion Division to Razor Composites, LLC. Razor Composites is owned by James Hardie Industries, a $1.25 billion dollar international fiber cement building products company. After an exhaustive search of pultruders in North America, James Hardie determined that Teel’s Pultrusion Division was foremost among its competitors. Exceptional engineering, product knowledge, facility design, and a first class ISO 9001 certified quality system drove James Hardie to buy Teel Pultrusion as a base for continued expansion.

2007

Teel held an opening ceremony for its newly completed 150,000 sq. ft. headquarters and state of the art manufacturing location in Baraboo. Construction on the environmentally conscious building began in September of 2006 and was completed in the summer of 2007. The new building incorporates Teel’s commitment to lean manufacturing and provided space for company-wide growth. The new building’s design focuses on environmental sustainability and employee wellbeing. The design incorporated many energy and resource saving technologies while providing an improved work environment for employees.

2006

Teel launched an initiative to transform the culture and expand lean enterprise thinking. Lean technique training was conducted through classroom and practical workshops for all employees across every position. Lean culture is based on the philosophy of measured business metrics driving improvements for critical performance elements. Teel continues this work today by sending employees to Yellow Belt and Black Belt training.

1999

Jay Smith and his two children, Jason Smith and Brynna London, acquired Teel Plastics. Under its new leadership, the company redefined its strategic direction. New corporate objectives based on a four-part strategy focusing on talent, supply chain management, customer focused innovation, and continuous improvement presented exciting opportunities for the organization.

1997

Teel was certified to ISO 9001. This was an important step for Teel in showing our commitment to quality and dedication to customer satisfaction. Teel has maintained its ISO certification ever since.

1992

The company embarked on developing and manufacturing fiberglass thermoset profiles to meet the needs of the utility, lawn and garden, and fenestration industry through creation of its Pultrusion Division. Teel continued to invest in the division, eventually become a recognized industry leader in the space.

1970s & 1980s

Teel added on to its product facility numerous times to grow and meet market demand. Teel began to design and build some of its own manufacturing equipment at this time as well.

1958

The company changed its name to Teel Plastics, Inc. to reflect its new focus on the manufacture of plastic products. Also during this time, Teel became a manufacturer of innovative sampling bags still used today in laboratories around the world.

1951

Teel Plastics, Inc. was established as Insemikit Co. Insemikit was a specialty manufacturer and distributor of agricultural implements and tools for the veterinary and the emerging livestock artificial insemination industry. The business foresaw a need for plastic tubing to replace glass tubes.

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