Lord Corporation

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Lord Corporation is a diversified technology company with world headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. It was founded in Erie, Pennsylvania in the 1920s. The company employs roughly 2600 people worldwide.^[1] The product line today encompasses adhesives and coatings, vibration and motion control, and magnetically responsive technologies.

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The product line today includes:

Lord mounts engineered for vibration control on trolley cars
Transmission and engine isolators developed for helicopter industry
Solvent-based and aqueous adhesives developed for rubber-to-metal bonding
Outboard motor mounts developed for the marine industry
Urethane coatings cured by ultraviolet light developed for "no-wax" vinyl flooring
High-capacity laminate (HCL) rotor bearings for helicopters, greatly reducing vibrations transmitted to the aircraft body
Room temperature curing adhesives used for automotive hem flange bonding
Active vibration control product developed for the aerospace market
Commercialization of Magneto-Rheological (MR) fluids

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