AES expands Ohio research and development facility.Advanced Elastomer elastomer (ĭlăs`təmər), substance having to some extent the elastic properties of natural rubber. The term is sometimes used technically to distinguish synthetic rubbers and rubberlike plastics from natural rubber. Systems, L.P., Akron Akron (ăk`rən), city (1990 pop. 223,019), seat of Summit co., NE Ohio, on the Little Cuyahoga River; inc. 1865. Once the heart of the nation's rubber industry, Akron still contains the headquarters of some rubber corporations and chemical and , OH, dedicated its R&D pilot plant expansion that doubled the Wadsworth Wadsworth, city (1990 pop. 15,718), Medina co., NE Ohio, an industrial suburb of Akron; settled c.1816, inc. 1866. Matches, iron and steel valves, and rubber products are manufactured in the city. . OH-based plant's size. The $5 million project includes new processing equipment, enabling AES to develop and test new ranges of TPEs. The expansion has increased facility size to more than 50,000 square feet. The Wadsworth pilot plant originally began operation in 1980. The company is said to be commercializing several new products over the next two years, further broadening broad·en tr. & intr.v. broad·ened, broad·en·ing, broad·ens To make or become broad or broader. broad its product portfolio. |
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