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Hollingsworth and Vose. During that year, to increase the production capacity of the firm, they purchased the West Groton Mill from Lyman
Hollingsworth. The new company specialized in the production of paper from jute and manila, and also used a small amount of unbleached sulphate wood pulp. In 1890 the company developed an
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Molecular (Adsorptive) Filter Media (MFM), nanofiber coating technology. By the year 2000 the company had manufacturing sites in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, and opened a facility in the Asia/Pacific region in Suzhou, China in 2006, and later the Mark
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