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Rogers Foam company history timeline

1949

Rogers introduced its first "Duroid" product line in 1949.

1958

1958: The firm initiates its first international joint venture with Vynckier N.V. of Ghent, Belgium.

1959

A second milestone--producing circuitry in 1959 needed in a new computer built by IBM--soon propelled Rogers into the forefront of the electronics market.

1966

Rogers also bought proprietary technology from Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1966, which turned into a goldmine.

1968

In 1968 the company bought another plant in Connecticut and initiated plans for a new R&D laboratory.

1980

1980: The firm opens a manufacturing plant in France.

1981

1981: Rogers products are licensed to a new partner in West Germany.

1996

In 1996 Rogers acquired Bisco Products from Dow Corning Corporation and the following year opened another manufacturing plant in Ghent, Belgium.

1998

The company's full-time employee roster had also grown from 993 worldwide to 1,122 in 1998.

1998: A sales office in Taiwan is opened.

2002

In this vein, 2002 found Rogers paring noncore operations and those which had not performed as expected.

2002: Rogers Technologies Suzhou Company Ltd. is established in China.

2010

For Rogers, the future included reaching the $1 billion mark in sales before 2010 and to continue to meet the evolving needs of the markets it served.

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