We built this company on the premise that seals are an engineering problem, not a procurement line item.

For four decades, PRP has supplied elastomeric seals to the industries where performance is not optional — semiconductor, aerospace, life sciences, high-purity process. What started as deep application expertise in demanding fluid-path environments has become the scientific infrastructure behind VeriClean Seals™: the only program that measures, reduces, and documents particulate contamination on elastomeric seals before they enter your system.

We’re not a catalog distributor. We’re a seal engineering supplier. The distinction matters.

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What We Do — Three Pillars

Seal Engineering:

Standard catalog through fully bespoke. O-rings, PFA encapsulated seals, die-cut gaskets, rubber-to-metal bonded assemblies, and lip seals. Compound selection, geometry guidance, and application engineering support across the full elastomer spectrum.

VeriClean Seals™:

A Quantified Contamination Risk Reduction program for fluid-path applications where seal surface cleanliness is not a cosmetic concern. ISO Class 7 cleanroom processing. Particle measurement from ≥1.3 µm. Decision-grade contamination data before your seals enter the system.

Services:

Supply chain management, vendor-managed inventory, incoming quality inspection, cleanroom packaging, and long-term golden sample retention. Built for environments where traceability is not optional.

Leadership

PRP was founded in 1979 with a straightforward conviction: the companies that design and operate the world’s most demanding fluid systems deserve a seal supplier who understands the engineering, not just the catalog. That conviction hasn’t changed. What has changed is where it’s being applied.

Our roots are in semiconductor — one of the most contamination-intolerant manufacturing environments on earth. The metrology, the cleanroom discipline, the obsession with what’s on a seal surface before it goes into a tool: that didn’t come from a marketing brief. It came from 45 years of working at the intersection of elastomer science and process performance in environments that punish complacency.

VeriClean Seals™ is the product of that history made available to every industry where an uncontrolled seal surface creates downstream risk. Data center liquid cooling. Medical devices. Pharma and biopharma. Discovery life sciences. The Specification Gap — the absence of any published standard for elastomeric seal surface cleanliness — exists across all of them. We’re closing it.

“I started my career here thirty years ago, left to work across other seal markets, and came back in 2024. I came back because from the outside I could see something clearly: PRP had built capabilities — cleanroom infrastructure, metrology depth, application engineering — that the rest of the industry didn’t know existed. VeriClean Seals™ is what happens when you wrap that in data and take it to market.”

— Bill Sharratt, President & CEO, Pacific Rubber & Packing, Inc.

Partnerships & Credentials

Parker EMG — 30-Year Partnership: PRP has been a Parker Engineered Materials Group distributor for over 30 years. Parker® is a registered trademark of Parker Hannifin Corporation.

Kalrez® by Qnity: Full FFKM compound range for medical, pharmaceutical, CPI, aerospace, and semiconductor. Kalrez® is a registered trademark of Qnity Electronics, Inc. ISO 9001:2015 Certified.

The seal is specified. The surface isn’t.  If that matters to your application, we should talk.