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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 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
The phrase "Better Living Through Chemistry" (BLTC) is a variant of a DuPont advertising slogan, "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry". DuPont adopted it in 1935 and it was their slogan until 1982 when the "Through Chemistry" part was dropped. Since 1999, their slogan has been "The miracles of science". [1]
The chemicals are manufactured by Chemours, a corporate spin-off of DuPont, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. [ 10 ] GenX chemicals are used as replacements for PFOA for manufacturing fluoropolymers such as Teflon , [ 2 ] [ 11 ] the GenX chemicals serve as surfactants and processing aids in the fluoropolymer production process to lower the ...
DuPont (NYS: DD) is the world's largest maker of titanium dioxide with 20% of the industry's capacity, and 2011 was a year of record profits due to rising TiO2 prices. Even as sales volumes fell ...
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene, and has numerous applications because it is chemically inert. [3] The commonly known brand name of PTFE-based composition is Teflon by Chemours, [4] a spin-off from DuPont, which originally discovered the compound in 1938. [4]
The real-life story, which is in theaters now, follows Ohio attorney Rob Bilott (portrayed by Mark Ruffalo) as he steadfastly pursues a case against DuPont, the chemical company that created Teflon.
DuPont's explored chemical reactions in supercritical water in the 1950s to support its production of CrO 2 for magnetic recording tapes. Hyperbaric recrystallization of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene led to DuPont's business in Hylamer polyethylene for bearing surfaces in hip and knee replacement arthroplasty .