DuPont is an American chemical and materials company headquartered in Delaware, formed in 1802 by the French-American chemist and industrialist Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, initially as a major supplier of gunpowder. Across the twentieth century the company developed many widely used polymers, including nylon, neoprene, Teflon, Kevlar and Tyvek, and for a long period was the largest chemical company in the world by sales before spinning off its commodity chemicals operations as Chemours in 2015.
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Company TypeChemical and materials science company 2 Founded Year HeadquartersDelaware, United States 2 Company Type
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What happened to DuPont after it merged with Dow Chemical in 2017?
DuPont merged with Dow in 2017 as DowDuPont, then spun off two businesses and took back the DuPont name.
DuPont merged with the Dow Chemical Company in August 2017 and renamed itself DowDuPont. After about 18 months it spun off its materials science divisions into a new corporate entity bearing the Dow Chemical name and its agribusiness divisions into Corteva. The company then reverted to the name DuPont and kept the specialty products divisions.
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1. Wikidata: DuPont
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is a company headquartered and organized in Delaware
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July 1802 (as E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company), September 1, 2017 (as DowDuPont), June 1, 2019 (as DuPont de Nemours Inc.)
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