DuPont
Company type | Public |
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ISIN | US26614N1028 |
Industry | Chemicals |
Predecessors | |
Founded |
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Founder | Éleuthère Irénée du Pont |
Headquarters | Wilmington, Delaware, US |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Edward D. Breen (executive chairman & CEO) |
Revenue | US$12.1 billion (2023) |
US$747 million (2023) | |
US$462 million (2023) | |
Total assets | US$38.6 billion (2023) |
Total equity | US$24.3 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | c. 24,000 (2023) |
Website | dupont |
Footnotes / references [1] |
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by
In 2015, DuPont and the Dow Chemical Company agreed to a reorganization plan in which the two companies would merge and split into three. As a merged entity, DuPont simultaneously acquired Dow and renamed itself to DowDuPont on August 31, 2017, and after 18 months spun off the merged entity's material science divisions into a new corporate entity bearing Dow Chemical's name and agribusiness divisions into the newly created Corteva; DowDuPont reverted its name to DuPont and kept the specialty products divisions. Prior to the spinoffs it was the world's largest chemical company in terms of sales. The merger has been reported to be worth an estimated $130 billion.[2][3][4] The present DuPont, as prior to the merger, is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, in the state where it is incorporated.[5][3][4][6][7]
History
Chemicals | |
Founded | July 1802 |
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Founder | Éleuthère Irénée du Pont |
Defunct | August 31, 2017 |
Fate | Merged with Dow Chemical to form DowDuPont, which later split into three companies |
Successor | Dow Chemical (Materials) DuPont (Specialty products) Corteva (Agricultural products) |
Headquarters | Wilmington, , |
Area served | 90 countries[8] |
Products | Products list
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Revenue | 13,020,000,000 ±10000000 United States dollar (2022) |
2,652,000,000 ±1000000 United States dollar (2021) | |
5,868,000,000 United States dollar (2022) | |
Total assets | 45,707,000,000 ±1000000 United States dollar (2021) |
Number of employees | 98,000 (2020) |
Subsidiaries | Subsidiaries list
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Website | dupont.com |
1802 to 1902 – First Century of Business
DuPont was founded in 1802 by
1902 to 1912 – First major expansion
DuPont continued to expand, moving into the production of
In 1910, DuPont published a brochure entitled "Farming with Dynamite". The pamphlet was instructional, outlining the benefits to using their dynamite products on stumps and various other obstacles that would be easier to remove with dynamite as opposed to other more conventional and inefficient means.[14]
DuPont also established two of the first industrial laboratories in the United States, where they began the work on
1913 to 1919 – Investments into General Motors
In 1914,
1920 to 1940 – Major breakthroughs
In the 1920s, DuPont continued its emphasis on
1941 to 1945 – World War II
DuPont ranked 15th among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts.[19] As the inventor and manufacturer of nylon, DuPont helped produce the raw materials for parachutes, powder bags,[20] and tires.[21]
DuPont also played a major role in the
DuPont was one of an estimated 150 American companies that provided
1950 to 1970 – Space Age developments
After the war, DuPont continued its emphasis on new materials, developing
DuPont has been the key company behind the development of modern
1981 to 1999
In 1981, DuPont acquired
In 1999, DuPont spun off Conoco and sold all of its shares. Conoco later merged with Phillips Petroleum Company.
DuPont acquired the
2000 to 2015 – Further growth, sales, and spinoff of Chemours
DuPont describes itself as a global science company that employs more than 60,000 people worldwide and has a diverse array of product offerings. The company ranks 86th in the Fortune 500 on the strength of nearly $36 billion in revenues, $4.848 billion in profits in 2013.[25] In April 2014, Forbes ranked DuPont 171st on its Global 2000, the listing of the world's top public companies.[26]
DuPont businesses are organized into the following five categories, known as marketing "platforms": Electronic and Communication Technologies, Performance Materials, Coatings and Color Technologies, Safety and Protection, and Agriculture and Nutrition. The agriculture division,
In 2010, DuPont Pioneer received approval to start marketing Plenish soybeans, which contain "the highest oleic acid content of any commercial soybean product, at more than 75 percent. Plenish provides a product with no trans fat, 20 percent less saturated fat than regular soybean oil, and more stable oil with greater flexibility in food and industrial applications."[28] Plenish is genetically engineered to "block the formation of enzymes that continue the cascade downstream from oleic acid (that produces saturated fats), resulting in an accumulation of the desirable monounsaturated acid."[29]
In October 2001, the company sold its pharmaceutical business to Bristol Myers Squibb for $7.798 billion.[30]
In 2002, the company sold the Clysar business to Bemis Company for $143 million.[31][32]
In 2004, the company sold its textiles business, which included some of its best-known brands such as
.In 2011, DuPont was the largest producer of
DuPont has 150 research and development facilities located in China, Brazil, India, Germany, and Switzerland, with an average investment of $2 billion annually in a diverse range of technologies for many markets including agriculture, genetic traits, biofuels, automotive, construction, electronics, chemicals, and industrial materials. DuPont employs more than 10,000 scientists and engineers around the world.
On January 9, 2011, DuPont announced that it had reached an agreement to buy Danish company Danisco for US$6.3 billion.[34] On May 16, 2011, DuPont announced that its tender offer for Danisco had been successful and that it would proceed to redeem the remaining shares and delist the company.[35]
On May 1, 2012, DuPont announced that it had acquired from
In February 2013, DuPont Performance Coatings was sold to the
In October 2013, DuPont announced that it was planning to spin off its Performance Chemicals business into a new publicly traded company in mid-2015.
In October 2015, DuPont sold the Neoprene chloroprene rubber business to Denka Performance Elastomers, a joint venture of Denka and Mitsui.[42]
2015 to present – Reorganization and time as DowDuPont
On December 11, 2015, DuPont announced a merger with Dow Chemical Company, in an all-stock transaction. The combined company, DowDuPont, had an estimated value of $130 billion, being equally held by both companies’ shareholders, while also maintaining its two headquarters. The merger of the two largest U.S. chemical companies closed on August 31, 2017.[3][4][43]
Both companies' boards of directors decided that following the merger DowDuPont would pursue a separation into three independent, publicly traded companies: an agriculture, a materials science, and a specialty products company.
- The agriculture business—crop protection unit, with an approximate revenue of $16 billion.[45]
- The materials science segment— to be named Dow Chemical Company—consists of DuPont's Performance Materials unit, together with Dow's Performance Plastics, Materials and Chemicals, Infrastructure and Consumer Solutions, but excludes Dow's Electronic Materials business. Combined revenue for this branch totals an estimated $51 billion.
- The specialty products unit—the entity today bearing the DuPont name—includes DuPont's Nutrition & Health, Industrial Biosciences, Safety & Protection and Electronics & Communications, as well as Dow's aforementioned Electronic Materials business. Combined revenue for Specialty Products total approximately $12 billion.[46][47]
Advisory Committees were established for each of the businesses. DuPont CEO Ed Breen would lead the Agriculture and Specialty Products Committees, and Dow CEO Andrew Liveris would lead the Materials Science Committee. These Committees were intended to oversee their respective businesses, and would work with both CEOs on the scheduled separation of the businesses’ standalone entities.
In 2019, DuPont completed its spin off from DowDuPont.[51]
In February 2020, DuPont announced that it is bringing back Edward D. Breen as its CEO after removing former Chief Executive Mark Doyle and CFO Jeanmarie Desmond less than a year after they assumed their roles. Lori D. Koch, previously head of investor relations, assumed the CFO position.[52]
In November 2021, DuPont announced that it intended to acquire Rogers Corporation in a deal valued at $5.2 billion.[53] While the deal had been approved by many other regulatory agencies, due to Chinese regulators prolonging the review, DuPont decided on November 1, 2022, to walk away from the deal. DuPont paid Rogers a termination fee of US$162.5 million.[54][55]
On November 10, 2022, the state of California announced it was filing suit against both DuPont and 3M for their manufacturing of persistent organic pollutants following multi-year probes into both companies. DuPont denies ever manufacturing the chemicals and avers that the state's claims are meritless.[56]
Operations
Locations
2010 | 949 |
2009 | 171 |
2008 | 992 |
2007 | 1,652 |
2006 | 1,947 |
2005 | 2,795 |
2004 | −714 |
2003 | −428 |
2002 | 1,227 |
2001 | 6,131 |
The company's corporate headquarters and experimental station were located in
Regulation
The European Commission opened a probe to assess whether the proposed merger was in line with the EU's respective regulations. The Commission investigated whether the deal reduced competition in areas such as crop protection, seeds and petrochemicals.[60] The closing date for the merger was repeatedly delayed due to these regulatory inquiries.[61][62]
Ed Breen said the companies were negotiating possible
The remedy submission in turn delayed the commission's review deadline to April 4, 2017. The intended spins of the company businesses were expected to occur about 18 months after closing.
The European Commission conditionally approved the merger as of April, 2017, although the decision was said to consist of over a thousand pages and was expected to take several months to be released publicly. As part of the approval, Dow must also sell off two acrylic acid co-polymers manufacturing facilities in Spain and the US. China conditionally cleared the merger in May, 2017.[68][67][69]
According to former
On the other hand, if
Reception and recognition
DuPont has been awarded the
On the company's 200th anniversary in 2002, it was presented with the Honor Award by the National Building Museum in recognition of DuPont's "products that directly influence the construction and design process in the building industry."[75]
Controversies
Environmental record
DuPont was part of Global Climate Coalition, a group that lobbied against taking action on climate change.[76] DuPont is additionally a company which has been criticized and called out for its activities in Cancer Alley, and while not as vocally criticized as ExxonMobil when it comes to its activities in Cancer Alley, DuPont has been blamed for emitting chloroprene and has been connected by some to anecdotes of "illnesses and ailmen" as told by residents of Cancer Alley.[77]
In 1999, attorney
In 2005,
In May 2007 the $2.1 million DuPont Nature Center at Mispillion Harbor Reserve, a wildlife observatory and interpretive center on the Delaware Bay near Milford, Delaware was opened to enhance the beauty and integrity of the Delaware Estuary. The facility will be state-owned and operated by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC).[82][83]
In 2010, researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts Amherst ranked DuPont as the fourth-largest corporate source of air pollution in the United States.[84] DuPont released a statement that 2012 total releases and transfers were 13% lower than 2011 levels, and 70% lower than 1987 levels.[85] Data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxic Release Inventory database included in the Political Economy Research Institute studies likewise show a reduction in DuPont's emissions from 12.4 million pounds of air releases and 22.4 million pounds of toxic incinerator transfers in 2006[86] to 10.94 million pounds and 22.0 million pounds, respectively, in 2010. Over the same period, the Political Economy Research Institutes Toxic score for DuPont increased from 122,426 to 7,086,303.[87]
One of DuPont's facilities was listed No. 4 on the Mother Jones top 20 polluters of 2010, legally discharging over 5,000,000 pounds (2,300,000 kg) of toxic chemicals into New Jersey and Delaware waterways.[88] In 2016, Carneys Point Township, New Jersey, where the facility is located, initiated a $1.1 billion lawsuit against the corporation, accusing it of divesting an unprofitable company without first remediating the property as required by law.[89]
In 2012 DuPont was named to the Carbon Disclosure Project Global 500 Leadership Index. Inclusion is based on company performance on sustainability metrics, emissions reduction goals, and environmental performance transparency.[90] In 2014 DuPont was the top scoring company in the chemical sector according to CDP, with a score of "A" or "B" in every evaluation area except for supply chain management.[91]
Between 2007 and 2014 there were thirty-four accidents resulting in toxic releases at DuPont plants across the U.S., with a total of 8 fatalities.[92] Four employees died of suffocation in a Houston, Texas, accident involving leakage of nearly 24,000 pounds (11,000 kg) of methyl mercaptan.[93] As a result, the company became the largest of the 450 businesses placed into the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's "severe violator program" in July 2015. The program was established for companies OSHA says have repeatedly failed to address safety infractions.[94][95]
Since the 2017 spin-off, the company has adapted its marketing and branding in order to establish a new identity that is "fundamentally different" from DowDuPont. The company published a list of sustainability commitments to be achieved by 2030 in November 2019.
Genetically modified foods
Chlorofluorocarbons
Dupont, along with Frigidaire and General Motors, was a part of a collaborative effort to find a replacement for toxic refrigerants in the 1920s, resulting in the invention of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by Thomas Midgley in 1928.
In 1974, responding to public concern about the safety of CFCs,[102] DuPont promised to stop production of CFCs should they be proven to be harmful to the ozone layer. However, after the discovery of grave ozone depletion in 1986, DuPont, as a member of the industry group Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy, lobbied against regulations of CFCs. By 1989, it reversed course after calculating that it would profit from production of other chemicals used to replace CFCs.[103]
In February 1988,
On March 14 of the same year, scientists from the
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA; C8)
DuPont has faced fines from the EPA and litigation over releases of the
DuPont agreed to sharply reduce its output of PFOA,[112] and was one of eight companies to sign on with the EPA's 2010/2015 PFOA Stewardship Program. The agreement called for the reduction of "facility emissions and product content of PFOA and related chemicals on a global basis by 95 percent by 2010 and to work toward eliminating emissions and product content of these chemicals by 2015."[113] DuPont phased out PFOA entirely in 2013.
Unlike other persistent organic pollutants, PFOA persists indefinitely and is completely resistant to bio-degradation, remaining toxic. The only way to reduce levels in the body is by physical elimination rather than degradation.[114] In 2014, the International Agency for Research on Cancer designated PFOA as "possibly carcinogenic" in humans.[115] In October 2015, one Ohio resident was awarded $1.6 million when a jury found that her kidney cancer was caused by PFOA in drinking water. In December 2016, $2 million was awarded when a jury found it caused the plaintiff's testicular cancer and awarded punitive damages of $10.5 million.[116] This was the third case where a jury found DuPont liable for injuries resulting from exposure to PFOA in drinking water sources. There were 3,500 similar cases awaiting trial c. 2015. According to the co-lead counselor, internal documents revealed during trial showed DuPont had known of a link between PFOA and cancers since 1997. DuPont maintains it has always handled PFOA "reasonably and responsibly" based on the information they, and industry regulators, had available during its use. However, the jury concluded that DuPont did not act to prevent harm or inform the public, despite the information available.[117] In 2017, DuPont settled 3,550 personal injury claims related to the Parkersburg, West Virginia plant for $671 million.[118][119]
The litigation was the subject of the 2019 Todd Haynes film Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo.
Imprelis
In October 2010 DuPont began marketing a herbicide called Imprelis, for control of certain plants in turf areas. DuPont voluntarily pulled Imprelis from the market in August 2011 before the EPA issued a mandatory stop-sale order on Imprelis after being alerted of numerous reports from golf courses to nurseries that the product was suspected of injuring and, in some cases, killing trees. Norway spruce, white pines and honey locust proved to be among the species of trees that were susceptible.[120][121]
Price fixing
In 2005, the company pleaded guilty to
2014 methyl mercaptan gas leak
In 2023, DuPont pleaded guilty for criminal negligence for its role in a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers and injured others at a Houston-area plant on November 15, 2014. 24,000 pounds of methyl mercaptan was released, and travelled downwind into surrounding areas. The company was ordered to pay a $12 million fine, and donate an additional $4 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.[123][124]
See also
- Dark Waters
- The Devil We Know
- PFAS
- Du Pont family
- DuPont v. Kolon Industries
- Foxcatcher
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Longwood Gardens
- Krebs Pigments and Chemical Company
- Team Foxcatcher
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Further reading
- Arora, Ashish; Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenberg, (eds). (2000). Chemicals and Long-Term Economic Growth: Insights from the Chemical Industry.
- Cerveaux, Augustin. (2013) “Taming the Microworld: DuPont and the Interwar Rise of Fundamental Industrial Research,” Technology and Culture, 54 (April 2013), 262–88.
- Chandler, Alfred D. (1971). Pierre S. Du Pont and the making of the modern corporation.
- Chandler, Alfred D. (1969). Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise.
- du Pont, B.G. (1920). Houghton Mifflin Company.
- ISBN 0-7392-0138-7
- Haynes, Williams (1983). American chemical industry[clarification needed]
- ISBN 0-521-32767-9.
- Kinnane, Adrian (2002). DuPont: From the Banks of the Brandywine to Miracles of Science. Wilmington: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. ISBN 0-8018-7059-3.
- Ndiaye, Pap A. (trans. 2007). Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America
- ISBN 0-13-221077-0
- Zilg, Gerard Colby. Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain. (Secaucus NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1984). 968 pages, ISBN 0-8184-0352-7
External links
- Official website
- Corporate History as presented by the company
- Works by DuPont at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Historical business data for DuPont:
- SEC filings
- Business data for DuPont de Nemours, Inc.: