Polymag Tek

What Polymag Tek does

Polymag Tek is a private, family-involved US manufacturer of industrial contamination control equipment founded in 1990 and headquartered in Rochester, NY. The company designs and builds ContactClean™ web cleaners, sheet cleaners, and process roll cleaners that use proprietary Blue-S™ silicone-polymer and Blue-U™ urethane-polymer contact cleaning rolls (CCRs) with high surface energy to attract and capture loose particulate during printing, coating, laminating, and converting operations, transferring contaminants to adhesive tape or wash systems for permanent disposal. Water wash web cleaning systems (NN-OWC, NR-OWC) and the Extender™ oscillating tape system extend the platform into high-contamination substrates (recycled paperboard) and slit-edge applications. The business model combines one-time equipment sales (custom quote-based, engineered per application) with recurring consumables (adhesive tape rolls every 4-8 hours, water wash cloths every 18-25 days), CCR polish/recovery services every 12-18 months, and replacement parts/support. Go-to-market mixes direct worldwide sales with a US regional rep network (Northeast and Mid/Atlantic), OEM embedded partnerships, and a distribution alliance with Static Clean International for static control products. End customers span packaging, printing, converting, pharmaceutical, aviation, automotive, electronics, and film manufacturers, with over 1,500 cleaners deployed globally since 1990.

Name

Polymag Tek

Legal name

Polymag Tek

Website

https://polymagtek.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Polymag Tek is a Rochester, NY-based manufacturer founded in 1990 that designs and builds custom web, sheet, and process roll cleaning equipment using proprietary Blue-S and Blue-U polymer rolls. It serves packaging, printing, converting, pharmaceutical, aerospace, automotive, electronics, and film manufacturers worldwide through direct sales and a regional rep network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Cleaning Equipment / Contamination Control

NAICS

Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing (333310)

SIC

Miscellaneous Plastics Products (3080)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial & Specialty Wipers (Shop Towels, Cleanroom Wipers) (IMAMAGAG)

Keywords

• Web cleaning equipment
• Contamination control solutions
• Process roll cleaners
• Sheet cleaning systems
• Static control equipment

Headquarters

HQ city

Rochester

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Industrial Cleaning Equipment Sales: Sale of custom-designed web cleaners, sheet cleaners, and process roll cleaners for the coating, laminating, printing, and converting industries. Equipment is custom-specified by the engineering team for each customer's unique manufacturing requirements.
2. Consumables: Recurring consumable products including adhesive tape rolls (sheeted), water wash consumables (sponge cartridges, cleaning cloths), process roll cleaner consumables (polyester/cotton woven and non-woven fabrics), contact cleaning roll care kits, and wipes. Tape rolls typically replaced every 4-8 hours, cloth rolls every 18-25 days.
3. Contact Cleaning Roll Services: Polish and recovery services for Contact Cleaning Rolls to renew cleaning properties. Recommended every 12-18 months. Rolls can be stripped and recovered even if surface becomes uneven or has knicks.
4. Replacement Parts and Support: Replacement parts and technical support services to keep equipment running continuously.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Polymag Tek designs and manufactures custom-engineered Contact Web Cleaners, Sheet Cleaners, and Process Roll Cleaners that remove dust, dirt, slitting debris, and contamination during coating, laminating, printing, and converting operations. Each system is engineered to customer specifications and built in-house at the Rochester, NY facility. The offering is rounded out by Static Control Equipment, Conveyor Cleaners, Static Clean WebVac, Contamination Control Systems, and recurring consumables (adhesive tape rolls, water-wash sponges/cloths, process roll fabrics, contact roll care kits, and wipes).

Product overview

Polymag Tek is a manufacturer of industrial contamination control and cleaning equipment founded in 1990 and based in Rochester, NY. The company's product portfolio centers on three core equipment families: Contact Web Cleaners (including single-side, two-sided, clamshell, wide-web, water wash, and oscillating tape systems), Sheet Cleaners (desktop, three-roll, narrow-sheet, conveyor belt, and double-nip models), and Process Roll Cleaners (step traversing, traversing, light, and backing roll models). These are complemented by Static Control Equipment sourced from Static Clean International, encompassing contamination control systems, ionizing blowers and tools, static bars, air knives and meters, and static bonding equipment. Supporting the core equipment are consumables including adhesive tape rolls, water wash consumables, process roll cleaner fabric, contact cleaning roll services, and the CK-CCR maintenance kit. The portfolio is designed for OEMs and after-market applications across packaging, printing, converting, pharmaceutical, aviation, automotive, electronics, and film industries, with all equipment manufactured in the USA since 1990.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ContactClean™: Web cleaning technology brand for machine-mounted contact web cleaners that remove contaminants from web surfaces.
• Blue-S™
• Blue-U™
• Extender™

Products and services

• Contact Web Cleaners Machine-mounted ContactClean™ Web technology that removes contaminants (dust, dirt, slitting debris) from web surfaces during printing, coating, laminating, and converting — reducing downtime and waste while improving productivity and product quality. Configurations span single-side, double-side, clamshell, wide-web (up to 118 inches), water wash, and convertible S-wrap designs at speeds up to 800 fpm standard. Sold B2B to printers, converters, and OEMs.
• Sheet Cleaners Customized two-sided sheet cleaning solutions that remove surface contamination using Contact Cleaning Rolls (CCR) and transfer it to adhesive tape rolls for disposal. Configurations include desktop (up to 11.5" sheet width), three-roll, narrow-sheet with pneumatics (up to 56"), and double-nip (99.9% efficiency). Designed for rigorous manufacturing environments.
• Process Roll Cleaners Contact cleaning technology that removes precipitate and particle buildup from rotating process roll surfaces — including chill, casting, and chrome rolls — without line shutdown. Configurations include step-traversing, traversing, light-duty, and backing roll models with fabric unwind/rewind systems for continuous operation.
• Conveyor Cleaner Inline conveyor cleaning system using Contact Cleaning Rolls to remove contaminants and transfer them to adhesive tape for permanent elimination. Targets food, medical, pharmaceutical, and optical packaging applications.
• Static Clean WebVac Web cleaning system combining vacuum, static neutralization, and compressed air blow-off to remove dry contaminants from narrow and wide webs, with collected contamination captured for safe disposal.
• Contamination Control Systems Vacuum-based particle collection systems including Vacuum PV Particle Trap, Particle Trap 6000, Medical Cleaning Station, HepaClean 2500/3000, and Flex Laminar Flow Station, for cleanroom and controlled-environment applications.
• Static Control Equipment Static neutralizing and ionization equipment for industrial, medical, and electronic markets — including ionization bars, blowers, static bars, air knives, static field meters, and static bonding tools — sourced through Polymag Tek's representation of Static Clean International.
• Handheld Contact Cleaning Roller (HHCCR) Handheld roller using Silicone-Polymer Blue-S Contact Cleaning Roll for manually removing loose contaminants from sheets or flat surfaces — capable of removing particles down to 1 micron.
• Polymag Tek Blue-S Contact Cleaning Rolls Proprietary silicone-polymer contact cleaning rolls with high surface energy that attract and hold contaminants until transferred to adhesive tape. Face lengths up to 170 inches, OD 1.25–7.0", with aluminum or steel core. Minimum 0.375" polymeric covering that can be ground or polished to renew the cleaning surface — supporting a 5+ year service life with 12–18 month polish intervals.
• Polymag Tek Blue-U Contact Cleaning Rolls Proprietary urethane-polymer contact cleaning rolls for water wash web cleaning and general web/sheet cleaning, with high surface energy and the ability to be washed clean or transfer contamination to particle-transfer fabric. Minimum 0.375" thick covering with stainless steel dead-shaft or live-shaft design.
• Extender Self-Contained Oscillating Tape System Self-contained oscillating tape roll that traverses 1.5 inches across the face of the Contact Cleaning Roll, eliminating line-of-travel slit-edge contamination and extending adhesive tape life by up to 1,200%. Available only through Polymag Tek.
• Adhesive Tape Rolls Pre-cut sheeted adhesive tape rolls for web and sheet cleaning systems, available in 1.5-inch, 3-inch, and 6-inch cores. Supports speeds up to 1,500 fpm; face lengths up to 60 inches. Sold in cases of 4 rolls, manufactured in-house at the Rochester, NY facility, and shipped domestically within 24–48 hours.
• Water Wash Web Cleaner Consumables Sponge cartridges (QTY of 6), scrubbing sponge cartridges (QTY of 6), and cleaning cloth rolls (QTY of 25) specifically designed for Polymag Tek water wash systems to keep contact cleaning rolls free of contamination buildup.
• Process Roll Cleaner Consumables Cleaning fabric consumables for process roll cleaners including polyester woven fabrics (14.5", 18.5", 51" face lengths), 100% cotton woven, and polyester-cellulose non-woven fabrics in 5" and 20" face lengths.
• Contact Cleaning Roll Care Kit (CK-CCR) Preventative maintenance kit for Contact Cleaning Rolls including scrubbing sponges, PTW-D10 wipes, sheeted tape rolls, nitrile gloves, and instructions covering daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance schedules.
• Polymag Tek Wipes (PTW-D10) Alcohol- and water-saturated lint-free non-woven cleaning wipes with integrated scrubbing dots, used for routine maintenance and cleaning of Contact Cleaning Rolls.

Quantifiable outcome

• Cleaning efficiency up to 96.9% for single-nip and 99.9% for double-nip configurations
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Static Clean InternationalcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPolymag Tek represents Static Clean International, a leading supplier and manufacturer of static control products in North America and across the globe. Products include ionizing blowers, static bars, air knives, contamination control systems, and static bonding equipment serving industrial, medical and electronic markets.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• 3M: Global manufacturer of industrial cleaning wipes, static control products, and surface-preparation consumables. Overlaps Polymag Tek's industrial wipes/fabric consumables business but at significantly broader scale across many verticals.
• ITW (Illinois Tool Works): Large diversified industrial conglomerate whose segments include Simco-Ion static control and various industrial cleaning and contamination products. Out-scales Polymag Tek across multiple product lines and geographies.
• Atlas Copco: Global supplier of industrial vacuum and cleaning solutions (including contamination control) serving manufacturing and process industries. Broader industrial cleaning portfolio with much larger geographic and product footprint than Polymag Tek.

Direct peers

• Simco-Ion: US-based (now part of ITW) manufacturer of static elimination and web-cleaning solutions. Overlaps Polymag Tek's static-control offering and competes for the same contamination-control budgets on converting lines.
• Erhardt+Leimer: German-based global supplier of web guiding, web tension, and web/surface cleaning and inspection systems. Overlap with Polymag Tek in web-cleaning equipment sold into printing, paper, film, and converting lines worldwide.
• Meech International: UK-headquartered manufacturer of static control and web/surface cleaning products including ionizing bars, contact cleaning systems, and consumables. Direct competitor in both static control and inline web cleaning for converting and packaging lines.
• BST eltromat: German-headquartered manufacturer of web guiding, web inspection, and web/surface cleaning systems for the printing, converting, and coating industries. Directly competes with Polymag Tek in the inline web-cleaning market with its own contact/tape-roll-based cleaning portfolio.
• Fraser Anti-Static Techniques: UK-based manufacturer of industrial static elimination, ionization, and contamination control equipment. Competes with Polymag Tek's Static Clean-resold static-control portfolio across converting, packaging, and electronics applications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PolymagTek

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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