Goodyear sells Wingtack business to Sartomer.Goodyear Tire & Rubber, 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, has agreed to sell its Wingtack adhesives resins resins, n.pl complex, insoluble, sticky substances secreted by plants. Used as astringents, antimicrobials, and antiinflammatories, and are burned as incense. Can cause oral ulcers and epidermal irritations. business to Sartomer, a unit of the French energy firm Total S.A., pending government and regulatory approvals. Goodyear will receive approximately $65 million for the business, which includes a manufacturing operation in Beaumont, TX. The operation is adjacent to Goodyear's synthetic rubber synthetic rubber: see rubber. production facility there, which will continue to supply raw materials for Wingtack production. Goodyear's adhesives resins business produces Wingtack brand hydrocarbon hydrocarbon (hī'drōkär`bən), any organic compound composed solely of the elements hydrogen and carbon. The hydrocarbons differ both in the total number of carbon and hydrogen atoms in their molecules and in the proportion of hydrogen resins that are used in a variety of pressure-sensitive and hot melt applications. The business has approximately 115 associates. |
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