Noveon acquires Thermedics TPUs.
Noveon Inc. in Cleveland has expanded its Estane TPU TPU - Text Processing Utility product line with the purchase of the Thermedics Polymer business and its brand-new production facility in Wilmington, Mass. The acquisition combines Noveon's Estane aromatic aromatic /ar·o·mat·ic/ (ar?o-mat´ik)
1. having a spicy odor.
2. in chemistry, denoting a compound containing a ring system stabilized by a closed circle of conjugated double bonds or nonbonding electron pairs, e.g. TPUs with Thermedics' aliphatic aliphatic /al·i·phat·ic/ (al?i-fat´ik) pertaining to any member of one of the two major groups of organic compounds, those with a straight or branched chain structure.
al·i·phat·ic
adj. TPU resins. Thermedics produced custom medical and industrial grades and optical-grade Tecoflex resins.
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