Du Pont Chemical Company
DuPont is an extremely large corporation that produces chemicals and uses chemicals to design and make materials that are used in a wide variety of industries. These chemicals and materials include the following: abrasives, additives, adhesives, building and construction materials, carpet and flooring products, cleaning products and chemicals, container resins, fabric, fibers, films, flocculants, fluoropolymers, food ingredients, fuel cell components, fungicides, herbicides, industrial chemicals, inoculants, insecticides, laminates, paints and coatings, plastics, polyimide, polymer ingredients/additives/modifiers, polymers, polyurethanes, printed circuit materials, protective apparel/fibers/fabric, quality assurance tools, and specialty chemicals and grains. These products are used in the following industries: aerospace and aircraft, agriculture, apparel and textile, automotive, biotechnology, chemical and petrochemical, construction and architecture, consumer goods, electrical and electronics, food and nutrition, health care and medical, industrial and manufacturing, marine and rail transportation, military and law enforcement, packaging, plastics and elastomers, printing and publishing, pulp and paper, safety, and utilities and mining. Because DuPont is involved in just about any industry one could imagine, the corporation is made up of several, relatively smaller, companies whose plants and research centers are located all over the world; in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Pacific Asia, and Australia.
However, DuPont was not always as large as it is today. When it was founded in 1802, its only product was "black powder for guns and blasting." By 1900, it was a "leading manufacturer of high explosives" and had already started to look into manufacturing chemical products. The 20th century saw DuPont expand into a "global chemicals, materials, and energy company [that] deepened its commitment to scientific...
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