NORDSON CORP (NDSN)

Nordson Corporation is a precision technology company that engineers, manufactures and markets products and systems used to dispense, apply and control adhesives, coatings, polymers, sealants, biomaterials and other fluids, to test and inspect for quality, and to treat and cure surfaces and medical products such as catheters, cannulas, balloons and tubing. Its products are backed by application expertise and direct global sales and service. Growth is pursued through its Ascend strategy, built on the NBS Next growth framework, a division-led structure and a talent strategy, with organic growth from new products and technologies and additional growth from acquiring companies with differentiated precision technologies in attractive end markets.

The company reports three segments. Industrial Precision Solutions covers Industrial Coatings, Nonwovens, Packaging, Polymer Processing, Precision Agriculture and Product Assembly, offering dispensing, coating, laminating and material processing systems. Medical and Fluid Solutions includes Engineered Fluid Solutions (manual and semi-automated dispensers, single-use syringes, cartridges and tips), Medical Interventional Solutions (engineered shafts, delivery systems, tubing, balloons, nitinol devices and cannula), Medical Fluid Components (single-use infusion and fluid transfer components) and Surgical Solutions (Microplegia myocardial protection devices). Advanced Technology Solutions includes Electronics Dispense Systems (automated dispensing and gas plasma treatment) and Test and Inspection (bond testers, optical, acoustic microscopy and x-ray inspection, and in-line measurement sensors and gauges). Equipment ranges from single-use components and manual units to automated, high-speed production systems.

Nordson serves consumer non-durable, consumer durable and technology end markets, including packaging, electronics and semiconductors, medical, appliances, energy, transportation, precision agriculture, building and construction, and general product assembly. No single customer accounted for ten percent or more of sales in 2025, and about 67 percent of revenues were generated outside the United States. Products are sold mainly through a direct sales force, with qualified distributors and sales representatives, via direct operations in more than 35 countries. Sales volume is typically highest in the second half of the fiscal year and lowest in the first quarter, reflecting customers' capital spending timing.

The company was incorporated in Ohio in 1954 and is headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, with about 8,000 employees as of October 31, 2025. Its production includes machining, molding and assembly, with principal manufacturing in many U.S. states and in China, Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Main materials include sheet metal, fabricated metal parts, castings, forgings, tubing, plastic parts and pellets, plus electrical and electronic components, hoses and seals, generally available from multiple suppliers. Nordson competes with many large, established manufacturers and alternative bonding, coating, testing and fluid control techniques, on the basis of pricing, product quality and service. It holds more than 2,100 granted and pending patents and more than 1,000 trademarks.