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[P90794016][P30328164]\n\nThe company operates through three principal segments: Industrial Precision Solutions, which focuses on dispensing and material-processing technologies; Medical and Fluid Solutions, which provides medical and fluid-management products; and Advanced Technology Solutions, which includes electronics-related dispensing, inspection, testing and surface-treatment technologies. [P8856464][P64152966][P99286044]\n\nNordson describes its purpose in terms of ethical conduct and creating balanced, long-term benefits for customers, employees, shareholders and communities. [https://www.nordson.com/en/brand-identity/philosophy-goals-values] In fiscal 2025, it reported sales of approximately $2.8 billion and about 8,000 employees worldwide. It markets products in more than 35 countries, with approximately 67% of fiscal 2025 revenue generated outside the United States. 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The polymer portfolio includes melt filters and screen changers, pelletizing systems, melt pumps and valves, as well as extrusion and coextrusion dies and feedblocks. Precision-agriculture products include spray nozzles, pumps, filters and controls for managing the flow, amount and placement of agricultural inputs. [P60695695][P39047355][P93819404][P55590583][P52457499][P70822514][https://www.nordson.com/en/divisions/polymer-processing-systems]\n\nMedical and Fluid Solutions offers fluid dispensers and single-use syringes, cartridges, tips and connectors, alongside medical tubing, engineered shafts, balloons and delivery systems. Products also include drug-delivery and infusion valves, fluid-transfer components, and Microplegia devices and consumables for cardiac surgery. Advanced Technology Solutions includes automated precision systems that dispense attachment, protection and coating fluids; plasma systems for cleaning and conditioning; and inspection and measurement products such as bond testers, optical, acoustic-microscopy and X-ray inspection systems, and in-line sensors and analyzers. [P34227829][P24116081][P83521651][P47717317][P31700091][P117370395][P3593867][P117910431][https://www.nordson.com/en/divisions/electronics-solutions/fluid-dispensing][https://www.nordson.com/en/divisions/test-and-inspection]\n\nServices include installation and field support, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, equipment repair and rebuilds, training, upgrades and replacement parts. In FY2025, segment sales were approximately 47.7% Industrial Precision Solutions, 29.9% Medical and Fluid Solutions, and 22.4% Advanced Technology Solutions; the company does not report sales by individual product line. 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The company defines the Americas as the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America. Approximately 67% of FY2025 revenue was generated outside the U.S., and Nordson markets products through direct operations in more than 35 countries. [T4089097][P59500932][P30328164]\n\nNordson has approximately 60 manufacturing and other facility locations, with principal manufacturing facilities in the U.S., China, Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the U.K. Its principal U.S. manufacturing operations and sources of supply span 15 states: Ohio, Georgia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Alabama, and Wisconsin. The company is headquartered in Westlake, Ohio. [P47382218][P8856464][P50937636][P30328164]\n\nNordson reported approximately 8,000 employees worldwide as of October 31, 2025; geographic employee counts were not provided. At the same date, long-lived assets were $433.1 million in the Americas, $106.1 million in Europe, and $55.1 million in Asia Pacific. [P8856464][T4089097]\n[T4089097][P59500932][P30328164][P47382218][P8856464][P50937636][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72331/000119312526014673/d69179dars.pdf]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-02T11:47:39.621919Z" }, { "type": "SEGMENTS", "text": "Nordson reports three business segments. **Industrial Precision Solutions** provides dispensing and material-processing technologies and equipment for applying adhesives, coatings, paints, sealants and other materials across industrial and consumer markets. It generated approximately **47.7%** of FY2025 segment sales. [P11130198][T904446]\n\n**Medical and Fluid Solutions** supplies fluid-management products and components—including tubing, balloons, catheters, syringes and fluid connections—for medical, high-tech industrial and other applications; it represented approximately **29.9%** of FY2025 segment sales. [P56317905][T904446] **Advanced Technology Solutions** combines surface-treatment, material-dispensing, testing and inspection technologies, primarily for semiconductor and electronics production; it represented approximately **22.4%**. [P117370395][T904446] Percentages are calculated from the reported FY2025 segment sales. FY2025, ended October 31, 2025, is the latest complete fiscal year reflected in the available reporting. [T904446][P10091868]\n[P11130198][T904446][P56317905][T904446][P117370395][T904446][T904446][P10091868]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-02T11:47:39.621919Z" }, { "type": "HISTORY", "text": "Nordson traces its roots to U.S. Automatic Company, founded in 1909. Brothers Eric and Evan Nord founded Nordson in Amherst, Ohio, in 1954, initially as a division of U.S. Automatic. The company developed thermoplastic hot-melt adhesive application equipment in the mid-1960s and pioneered powder-coating application and recovery systems later that decade; U.S. Automatic’s operations merged into Nordson in 1966. [https://www.nordson.com/en/about-us/our-history] During the 1970s Nordson shares began trading on NASDAQ, and sales surpassed $100 million. In the 1980s, the company expanded internationally; international sales exceeded half of revenue by the decade’s end. It acquired Industriell Coating Aktiebolag and Meltex in 1989, and William P. Madar became president and CEO in 1986. [https://www.nordson.com/en/about-us/our-history/1970s] [https://www.nordson.com/en/about-us/our-history]\n\nNordson expanded into precision fluid dispensing with its 2000 acquisition of EFD, and into medical technologies with the 2017 acquisition of Vention Medical’s Advanced Technologies business. 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