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DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in the development of the U.S. state of Delaware and first arose as a major supplier of gunpowder.
DuPont may refer to the current incarnation of the DuPont company and its products, the predecessor company, or its founding family. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
[36] [37] A year later 3M instead issued free samples of it as a sticky note directly to consumers in Boise, Idaho, with 95% of those who tried them indicating they would buy the product. [36] The product was sold as "Post-Its" in 1979 when the rollout introduction began, [38] and was sold across the United States [38] from April 6, 1980. [39]
Through later mergers the company became DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC), part of the American DuPont chemical empire, and was rebranded as Axalta Coating Systems after being purchased by The Carlyle Group in 2013. Axalta went public on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2014 and since then has become fully independent. Carlyle Group ...
Corian is the original material of this type, created by Donald Slocum, a chemist at DuPont, in 1967. [1] [2] His name appears on the patent issued in October 1968. [3] The product was first introduced for sale in 1971, at the National Association of Home Builders meeting in Houston, Texas. [1]
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DuPont filed its initial Form 10 with the SEC in December 2014 and announced that the new company would be called "The Chemours Company." [ 8 ] The name is a portmanteau of the words chemical and Nemours, a nod to DuPont's full name, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.