Sheldahl, founded in 1955, initially developed products to serve the military and aerospace markets. Those products were based on flexible laminate technology - the combining of dissimilar materials into a new product, superior in capabilities to its component parts. The Company is now a leading producer of high-density substrates, high-quality flexible printed circuitry, and thin, flexible proprietary laminates, primarily for sale to the automotive electronics and datacom (computers and telecommunications) markets.

Principal products: Automotive: flexible interconnects, Novaclad® material, Novaflex™ HD(ECU and automotive applications), barrier and flat cable tapes (air bags). Datacom: Novaclad adhesiveless material, Novaclad-based ViaThin^TM substrates for semiconductor packaging, and Novaflex™ VHD (tape drives, medical electronics, etc.), Accentia^TM ITO film (flat panel displays, touch screen panels, EMI shielding, EL Displays), ThinFoil® (design in primary and secondary batteries), and ComClad^TM (high frequency laminates for wireless communications)

Markets:  Automotive, datacommunications, telecommunication, medical, aerospace, other.

Distribution: Direct U.S. technical sales representatives, all lines, as well as a distributor in Europe, Holders Technology. 

Headquarters and technical center:
Northfield, Minnesota

Sales offices:
Northfield, Minnesota
Shanghai, China