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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.
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S.T. Dupont is a French manufacturing company based in Paris, which has been making luxury goods since its founding in 1872. Products commercialised include handbags, lighters, collectible pens, perfumes (produced under license by Interparfums), cigarettes (made by Philip Morris International), and recently other gadgets using the trademark diamond-head pattern.
After a three-year long battle, chemicals and seed giant DuPont won control of South Africa's largest seed company, and can now more effectively challenge Monsanto's dominance of the dark continent.
INVISTA's products include many brands. In 2008, Invista sued Rhodia, a chemical company, for theft and misappropriation of a chemical process technology used to produce nylon 6,6.
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.
The Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children uses it, as does the duPont Registry. William S. Dutton's mid-20th-century history of the family business [ 2 ] uses "Du Pont" both for the family mentioned generally and for the company's short name, but "du Pont" in an individual's full name, for example, " Éleuthère Irénée du Pont ...
The DowDuPont agricultural businesses that became Corteva had revenue of over $14 billion in 2017, [9] which would have placed the company in the Fortune 500 for that year. A major part of the company is Pioneer Hi-Bred International, which DuPont purchased in 1999.