Michael Duqette Named COO at Producto Group

The Producto Group has welcomed a new executive team member, hiring Michael Duquette as chief operating officer. He will provide daily management and oversight of the company’s multi-site operations.

“Mike has a career in global operations and manufacturing, and I am excited to have him join the team,” Producto CEO Mark Rauenzahn said. “His wealth of experience will be invaluable to Producto as we continue to grow in medical manufacturing and other highly regulated critical end markets.”

Before joining Producto, Duquette was Global Operations director and general manager of Trelleborg’s Health & Medical facility in Northborough, Mass., where he provided leadership for the firm’s biopharma silicone molding and contract assembly operations. Over the past 30 years, Duquette has held various executive operations with life sciences and aerospace contract and component manufacturers.

“I am eager to work alongside Mark and the rest of the Producto team. They have built an incredible business, offering its customers solutions to their most challenging precision tooling, complex machining, and plastic enclosure needs,” Duquette stated.

The Producto Group is a solution-driven manufacturer with differentiated capabilities for the medical industry (Producto Medical), and other critical, regulated high-end markets through Producto Precision. Its synergistic brands offer high-precision tooling (Ring Precision), precision machining and assembly for complext components (New Vision Industries), heavy-gauge plastic enclosures (ThermoFab), and springs and die sets (Dieco) as part of a fully integrated “One Producto” solution.

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