Editing Akron, Ohio (section)

===Polymer Valley===
Northeast Ohio's Polymer Valley is centered in Akron. The area holds forty-five percent of the state's polymer industries, with the oldest dating to the 19th century. During the 1980s and 1990s, an influx of new polymer companies came to the region.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1723 |title=Polymer Valley – Ohio History Central – A product of the Ohio Historical Society |publisher=Ohio History Central |date=July 1, 2005 |access-date=September 9, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927022648/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1723 |archive-date=September 27, 2012  }}</ref> In 2001, more than 400 companies manufactured polymer-based materials in the region.<ref name="A New Brand Of Tech Cities"/> Many [[University of Akron]] scientists became world-renowned for their research done at the [[Goodyear Polymer Center]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Bowles |first=Mark |author-link= |title=Chains of Opportunity: The University of Akron and the Emergence of the Polymer Age 1909-2007 |year=2008 |location= |publisher=University of Akron Press; Illustrated edition |page= |isbn=978-1931968539}}</ref> The first College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering was begun by the university. In 2010, the National Polymer Innovation Center opened on campus.