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    Permabond Engineering Adhesives
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    "Permabond’s history of developing and manufacturing engineering adhesives spans five decades and three continents. Today, Permabond Engineering Adhesives Ltd (Europe & Asia) and Permabond LLC (Americas) provide technological solutions to engineers all over the world, with offices and facilities in America, Asia, and Europe, backed by a high-tech ISO 9001 certified production plant in Europe.Permabond’s first moments started in the UK, early in the 1960s. For years, manufacturers had no choice but to rely on mechanical means of locking nuts and bolts. The high rate of failure due to equipment vibrations required a more reliable means of locking fasteners on equipment and finished goods. Chemists at Borden Chemicals (UK) seized this opportunity to develop a special anaerobic adhesive sealant that cured to a solid plastic when used between metal surfaces in the absence of oxygen. As predicted, these adhesives were well received by the manufacturing sector, and business expanded rapidly. Avdel Ltd spotted this growth and quickly moved to purchase this business from Borden Chemical. As the business continued to grow, they moved to a larger facility on Woodside Road in Eastleigh. The market for adhesives and sealants that could meet the engineering needs of industry was apparent, even at this early date. Avdel invested heavily in Research & Development, creating a number of anaerobic products to seal threaded pipes and fittings, retain bearings and press-fit parts, and form-in-place gaskets. Meanwhile, in Florida, United States, three men in the jewelry distribution business ‘accidentally’ discovered cyanoacrylate adhesive and its ability to bond pearls into jewelry. They formed a company called Pearl Chemical and sold cyanoacrylate adhesive for this purpose. One of the three owners came up with the idea to suspend a farm tractor from a crane, held by nothing except a drop of cyanoacrylate! The picture was used on some of the earliest cyanoacrylate packaging."
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    Aptek Laboratories
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    • HQ:United States
    "Aptek laboratories, inc., established in 1986, is a designer and manufacturer of custom-formulated adhesives, coatings, paints, encapsulants, and specialty films/substrates for the aerospace, military, rf/microwave, optoelectronic, high-end electrical/electronic, and oil exploration industries. Aptek laboratories, inc. Resides in a modern 23,000-square foot r&d/manufacturing facility located in an upscale industrial center in valencia, california. Built to aptek’s design and tight specifications for temperature, humidity, and environmental controls, this building provides aptek with enhanced capability and size to efficiently develop and manufacture high quality products to meet the industry’s current and future demands. Aptek’s success has come through long-term relationships with key customers such as boeing satellite systems, raytheon company, northrop grumman, lockheed martin, honeywell, moog, cianna/merit medical and many other companies that order aptek products on a regular basis. In order to support the requirements and highly technical demands of these customers, aptek devotes a major portion of its resources to research and development, product modification, customer/technical service, quality assurance, sophisticated state-of-the-art testing equipment, and high-quality manufacturing equipment. Although aptek has historically targeted high-tech aerospace and military applications, this same focused philosophy/commitment and expertise is currently applied to the high-end commercial markets as well."
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    Dugdale
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    Located in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, Dugdale have been manufacturing PVC compounds since 1959. This experience, coupled with strong technical expertise, have gained Dugdale an excellent reputation as a PVC compound supplier within the PVC manufacturing and supply industry. As of September 2019 Dugdale now form part of the Benvic Group. The success and growth of Dugdale as a PVC granules manufacturer is a direct result of their core qualities of applied scientific expertise, effective manufacturing, innovative marketing and excellent customer service. Significant investment has been made in the business allowing continuous research and development to be conducted. This has ensured that Dugdale can provide bespoke and standard solutions to customer’s PVC compound requirements / challenges across a variety of markets, including medical, leisure, automotive and building & construction. These investments include efficient manufacturing equipment, a New Product Development team, testing and lab facilities and a dedicated pilot line. By being purely a PVC compound supplier, technical resources and focus at Dugdale are not diluted on a range of different polymer plastics but are concentrated in the versatility, cost, performance and environmental benefits of PVC. The resultant competency from this has led Dugdale to be much more than just a PVC supplier but a recognised voice of expertise within the PVC industry. Dugdale regularly sponsor key PVC events, support work with the British Plastics Federation and have contributed to a Parliamentary Review on relevant subject matter.
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    Kraton
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    Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. (NYSE: KRA) ("KPPI" and, together with its subsidiaries including the Company and Arizona, "Kraton") is a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers, specialty polymers and high-value performance products derived from pine wood pulping co-products. Kraton's polymers are used in a wide range of applications, including adhesives, coatings, consumer and personal care products, sealants and lubricants, and medical, packaging, automotive, paving, roofing and footwear products. As the largest global provider in the pine chemicals industry, the company's pine-based specialty products are sold into adhesive, road and construction and tire markets, and it produces and sells a broad range of chemical intermediates into markets that include fuel additives, oilfield chemicals, coatings, metalworking fluids and lubricants, inks, flavors and fragrances and mining. Kraton offers its products to a diverse customer base in over 60 countries worldwide. Kraton, the Kraton logo and design, and the "Giving Innovators their Edge" tagline are all trademarks of Kraton Polymers LLC. Our Mission Create exceptional value by Giving Innovators Their Edge® better than all others in the industry we lead. Our Vision Guided by our Core Values, we will be an admired Fortune 500 specialty chemical company with consistent earnings per share growth, a sustaining Vitality Index, industry-leading margins, delivering returns above our cost of capital.
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    SAES Getters
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    • HQ:Italy
    "SAES is an advanced functional materials group. Internally, it conceives and produces new families and new compounds of ""functional"" materials, that is, materials bearing special characteristics which find their application in a variety of areas such as consumer electronics, domotics, automotive, particle accelerators, gas purification and other new frontiers yet to be discovered. The unique expertise of SAES Group in the field of materials science translates into the radically innovative activity carried out by the R&D department: the beating heart of the company’s core strategy. In this way SAES Group guarantees its present and future, building its market territory industry after industry by means of a fundamental asset: technology diversification, which maintains and reinforces historic technologies while developing new core businesses such as that of Shape Memory Alloys and Functional Chemicals. For this reason, all the processes, discoveries and inventions are able to adapt to the technologies and needs of every market, ensuring the company’s short and long-term stability. Today, SAES Group is present in Europe, in Asia and in the U.S. with the ""sales & service locations"" and ""manufacturing locations"". For the past 70 years SAES Group has represented the pinnacle of advanced technology, embodying the role of both leader and pioneer. It looks to the future not only through the integration of innovative processes but by implementing a forward-thinking approach that seeks to explore previously unknown territories before settling into them."

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