Tandem Products

What Tandem Products does

Tandem Products is a privately held Minneapolis-based manufacturing company founded in 1965, operating across two distinct industrial product areas. The company produces slat flooring systems used in animal production facilities and formulates and blends polyurethane products marketed under the Rhino Hyde sub-brand. Its core technology is polyurethane compounding, with the Rhino Hyde brand referencing specialized industrial polymer applications such as wear protection and abrasion- and chemical-resistant materials.

The company positions polyurethane manufacturing as its underlying technology platform, with products typically delivering durability, chemical resistance, abrasion resistance, and customizable material properties for industrial end-users. Animal production slat flooring represents a separate, distinct product line serving agricultural customers. The Rhino Hyde line is supported by a dedicated subdomain (rhinohydeproducts.com) alongside the corporate site at tandemproducts.com, with the Rhino Hyde logo bearing a 2020 upload date, suggesting brand consolidation of polyurethane offerings within that period.

The company maintains a minimal public-facing digital presence consistent with a private industrial manufacturer: a small corporate website, direct phone-based customer contact via Minneapolis area numbers (612.721.2911 and 1.800.533.0509), and no disclosed pricing model, distribution channel detail, named customer list, segment breakdown, awards, patents, or partnership announcements. Revenue, ownership, and management information are not publicly disclosed. There is no indication of public listing, institutional investment, or active capital-raising activity in the source material, and the ownership commentary explicitly notes absence of parent, PE/VC, or founder ownership details.

Name

Tandem Products

Legal name

Tandem Products

Website

https://tandemproducts.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1965

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Tandem Products is a private Minneapolis-based manufacturer founded in 1965 that produces slat flooring systems for animal production facilities and formulates polyurethane products, marketed under the Rhino Hyde sub-brand, for industrial wear-protection and abrasion-resistant applications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Polyurethane Manufacturing

NAICS

Urethane and Other Foam Product (except Polystyrene) Manufacturing (32615)

SIC

Miscellaneous Chemical Products (2890), Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro primary industry

Polyurethane (PU) Flexible Foam Manufacturing (IMANAIAC)

Keywords

• Polyurethane manufacturing
• Slat flooring systems
• Animal production flooring
• Industrial polymer products
• Polyurethane formulations

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Tandem Products is a Minneapolis-based manufacturer that formulates and blends polyurethane materials and produces slat flooring systems for animal production operations. The company operates the Rhino Hyde sub-brand, which offers polyurethane-based industrial products for wear protection, chemical resistance, and abrasion-resistant applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Rhino Hyde: Polyurethane products brand, referenced via rhnohydeproducts.com subdomain

Products and services

• Rhino Hyde Sub-brand of Tandem Products specializing in polyurethane products for industrial applications, with a dedicated website at rhinohydeproducts.com.
• Polyurethane Products Polyurethane-based industrial products manufactured and distributed by Tandem Products, offering durability, chemical resistance, abrasion resistance, and customizable material properties.
• Slat Flooring Systems Slat flooring systems manufactured by Tandem Products for animal production operations.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Covestro: Major global producer of polyurethane raw materials and systems. Comparable as a vastly larger incumbent in the same polyurethane value chain Tandem operates in.
• Big Dutchman: Global leader in livestock equipment and housing systems. Overlaps with Tandem via slat flooring but operates a much broader portfolio across feeding, climate control, and barn technology.
• BASF: World's largest chemical company with a substantial polyurethane systems and specialties business. Competes upstream with Tandem's PU formulation capability and downstream via performance materials.
• Illinois Tool Works (ITW): Diversified industrial manufacturer operating polymer- and coatings-based product lines. Relevant as a larger incumbent competing in many of the same specialty industrial niches as Rhino Hyde.
• Huntsman Corporation: US-based specialty chemicals company with a sizable polyurethane systems and performance products division. Comparable on PU chemistry and specialty industrial materials.
• Dow: Global materials science company producing polyurethane intermediates and systems. Overlaps with Tandem's PU manufacturing activity as an upstream/downstream incumbent.

Direct peers

• ACO FUNKI: Danish producer of pig housing equipment including slat flooring and penning systems. Closely comparable on product (slats) and end-customer (livestock integrators).
• Verbakel: Netherlands-based supplier of slat flooring and pig-housing products. Directly comparable to Tandem's animal-production flooring offering.
• Nooyen: Leading European manufacturer of slat flooring systems and housing equipment for pig production. Directly comparable to Tandem's slat flooring business and serves the same animal-housing end-market.
• Polnet: Polish manufacturer of plastic slat flooring and livestock housing equipment. Competes head-to-head with Tandem on polymer-based slats in the European market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tandem-products

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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