Drymate
Absorbent surface-protection mats made in Minnesota from at least 50% recycled content.
🇺🇸 Made in USA
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Company details
Where Drymate products are made
RPM Inc. has been Minnesota owned and operated for more than four decades and manufactures the Drymate line domestically. The company sells across pet, home, automotive, garden, hunting and seasonal categories from that one material platform.
The origin story is unusually literal: the founders saw the potential of an absorbent material nobody else was using, and rather than contract for it, they bought the company that manufactured it. Owning the material is why the recycled-content claim can be certified rather than estimated.
A minimum of 50% recycled content, verified by SCS Global and broken out as 37% post-consumer and 13% pre-consumer. Publishing the split is the difference between a recycling claim and a recycling number.
The 1981 founding, Minnesota ownership and operation, the made-in-USA material claim and the SCS Global certified recycled-content figures are all published by RPM Drymate on drymate.com.
The story
RPM Inc. started in Minnesota in 1981, and the pivotal moment came when the founders encountered an absorbent material with a waterproof backing that had nothing quite like it on the market. Most companies in that position would have negotiated a supply agreement. RPM bought the company that made the material.
That decision defined everything after it. Owning the material meant the Drymate line could expand wherever an absorbent, waterproof, washable mat solved a problem — and it turned out that was a lot of places. Under a cat’s litter box. Under a dog’s bowl. In a whelping box. In a truck bed, a garage, a mudroom, a garden shed, a hunting blind.
Drymate is now sold online and in stores worldwide across pet, home, automotive, garden, hunting and seasonal categories, all from that one Minnesota-made material platform, and the company still describes itself first as a manufacturer.
Why they matter
Owning your material is the most durable form of American manufacturing there is, and it is what Drymate is built on. A brand that merely specifies a fabric can be undercut the moment someone sources it cheaper abroad. A company that owns the mill is competing on something that cannot simply be reordered from a different supplier.
The Drymate recycled content is a real number rather than a gesture. A minimum of 50%, third-party certified by SCS Global, with the post-consumer and pre-consumer shares published separately — that level of specificity invites checking, which is exactly why it is worth something.
It is also a category where the imported alternative is genuinely worse. A mat that delaminates, leaks through, or falls apart in the wash is a mat you buy twice. Controlling the material is how Drymate justifies its price in a commodity aisle.
Shop Drymate products
Browse Drymate pet and surface protection mats stocked on the Buy American Campaign store.
Frequently asked questions
Are Drymate mats made in the USA?
Yes. RPM Drymate states on its own website that its patented material is proudly made in the USA with a minimum of 50% recycled content.
Where is Drymate made?
In Minnesota. RPM Inc. has been Minnesota owned and operated since 1981 and manufactures the Drymate line there.
What is Drymate material made from?
A patented absorbent fabric with a waterproof backing, containing a minimum of 50% recycled content — certified by SCS Global as 37% post-consumer and 13% pre-consumer.
Who makes Drymate?
RPM Inc., a Minnesota company founded in 1981 that bought the manufacturer of the material rather than sourcing it from a third party.