American Nitrile in Grove City, near Columbus, is a University of Akron partner that's making gloves for the health care industry. It's reviving an industry that the U.S. formerly ceded nearly entirely to Asia, its backers and founders say.
American Nitrile in Grove City, near Columbus, is a University of Akron partner that's making gloves for the health care industry. It's reviving an industry that the U.S. formerly ceded nearly entirely to Asia, its backers and founders say.
The university has partnered with Ohio Penal Industries, Summit Glove and American Nitrile to build a program that includes education and workplace experience, and ends with a good-paying job at an Ohio manufacturing company.
Bausch is not a polymer scientist or engineer. But she's becoming an important person to know in and around town if a company needs help from the University of Akron's vaunted polymer science school or in other areas of scientific expertise.
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