WORCESTER, Mass. —

In business, as it is in life, when you’re given lemons, deciding to make lemonade can make all the difference in being successful.

That was just the case for a Massachusetts industrial rubber products company that found itself making a pivot into the world of toys for pets. That company is Jefferson Rubber Works in Worcester. Latest Forecast

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For years, the rubber injection molding company has focused on industrial products for wastewater systems and other items such as rubber medical devices.

In the late 1990s, when a customer of Jefferson sold off to a competitor, the company was left in the lurch with a surplus of flexible rubber membrane discs used as part of the wastewater piping systems.

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