Wednesday, May 12, 2010

DU PONT – BRIEF DESCRIPTION

DuPont – A BRIEF DESCRIPTION

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'World's biggest book'–"One Look at Mexico, Colors and Flavors"–has its pages made with DuPont™ Tyvek®. The book's dimensions will be two meters high by two meters wide.

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E.I. du Pont was the younger of two sons born to Paris watchmaker Pierre Samuel du Pont who, by the

1780s, had become a noted political economist, a rising government official, and an advocate of free trade.

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E.I. du Pont studied explosives production techniques with the famous chemist Antoine Lavoisier.

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In 1791, after the onset of the French Revolution, he gave up powder-making to assist in his father's small

printing and publishing business.

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The du Ponts' moderate political views proved a liability in revolutionary France. In 1797 a mob ransacked

their printing shop and they were briefly imprisoned. In late 1799 they fled to America.

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E.I. du Pont established his first gunpowder mill on the Brandywine River in 1802 in the US.

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Fabrikoid was one of DuPont's first non-explosives products and was marketed as artificial leather.

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When General Motors faced bankruptcy in 1920, Pierre left DuPont to create a decentralized management

structure to cope effectively with GM's widely varying products and markets.

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Cellophane inaugurated a consumer revolution. Its sanitary wrapping enabled producers and retailers to

attractively display their products and allowed consumers to see what they were buying. DuPont scientist

William Hale Charch developed a moisture-proofing system for cellophane in 1927. Moisture-proof

cellophane quickly transformed food packaging and marketing worldwide.

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Neoprene was the first major product to emerge from DuPont's fundamental research program led by

Wallace Carothers. DuPont marketed its discovery in 1931 under the trade name Duprene®.

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DuPont introduced non-CFC substitutes for Freon®–Suva® refrigerants and Dymel® propellants in 1990.

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The 1999 acquisition of Pioneer Hi-Bred International marked a major step in DuPont's overall strategy to

integrate agricultural biology into the company's science and technology base.

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Solae™ brand soy protein made by made by DuPont Protein Technologies is a complete protein derived

from soybeans and is used as an ingredient in a wide variety of food, beverage and meat products.

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