Burr Ridge, Ill. (August 1, 2006) - Ferris Mfg. Corp., makers of PolyMem® wound care dressings, was awarded the Supplier Performance Award in June from Premier Inc., a healthcare alliance owned by more than 200 of the nation's leading not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems. These organizations operate or are affiliated with nearly 1,500 hospitals and more than 38,500 other healthcare sites.

Of 400 eligible suppliers, Ferris Mfg. Corp. was one of 69 winners chosen, an elite group of 17%. Awards were bestowed to suppliers that consistently scored 80% or above on specific quality measures during four successive quarters.

Ferris Mfg. Corp. was established in 1977 and its unique PolyMem formulation is the world's first QuadraFoam^TM dressing. QuadraFoam dressings are an innovative class of adaptable wound care dressings that effectively cleanse, fill, absorb and moisten wounds throughout the healing continuum. Only QuadraFoam dressings combine these four key wound-healing capabilities into a single wound care product.

In the spring of 2006, Ferris introduced its most recent line, Shapes^TM by PolyMem. Shapes dressings are pre-cut, easy-to-use dressings available in the most common wound shapes and sizes, therefore reducing the need to manually cut dressings to size.

Over the years, Ferris has received numerous awards including the KPMG Peat Marwick High-Tech Entrepreneur Award, the Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry's Medical Design Excellence Awards® 2000, Industry Week's Top 25 Growing Companies Award (2000), and the Illinois Governor's Export Award (1998 and 1999).