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Rogers buys KF, buoys float base.

By McNulty, Mike
Publication: Rubber & Plastics News
Date: Monday, February 9 2004

Byline: Mike McNulty

Specialty materials maker Rog-ers Corp. has purchased a South Korean maker of fuel tank level-sensing floats to expand its manufacturing base for nitrile butadiene rubber floats.

Rogers paid about $3.5 million for KF Inc., headquartered in Hwasung City, through a stock purchase agreement completed Jan. 30.

The acquired firm, which had sales of about $3 million in 2003, will become Rogers' Asian center for prototyping and small volume production, according to William E. Boomer, chairman and CEO of Rogers. Now a wholly owned Rog

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