Nordson Corp. engages in the engineering, manufacture and market of products and systems used for adhesives, coatings, sealants, biomaterials and other materials. The company is headquartered in Westlake, Ohio and currently employs 7,200 full-time employees. The firm engineers, manufactures and markets differentiated products used for dispensing adhesives, coatings, sealants, biomaterials and other materials; for fluid management; for test and inspection; and for ultraviolet (UV) curing and plasma surface treatment. The firm's segments include Industrial Precision Solutions (IPS) segment that delivers dispensing and processing technology to end markets. IPS segment serves the industrial, consumer durables and non-durables markets; Advanced Technology Solutions segment that integrates product technologies into the progressive stages of a customer’s production processes, such as surface treatment, precisely controlled dispensing of material and pre- and post-dispense test and inspection to ensure quality, and Medical and Fluid Solutions segment, which offers fluid management solutions for medical, high-tech industrial and other diverse end markets.