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Part I
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
13
None.
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
The company's corporate headquarters are located in Wilmington, Delaware. The company's manufacturing, processing, marketing
and research and development facilities, as well as regional purchasing offices and distribution centers are located throughout the
world. Additional information with respect to the company's property, plant and equipment and leases is contained in Notes 9, 15
and 20 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The company has investments in property, plant and equipment related to global manufacturing operations. Collectively there are
approximately 300 principal sites in total. The number of sites used by their applicable segment(s) by major geographic area around
the world is as follows:
Number of Sites
Agriculture Electronics &
Communications Industrial
Biosciences Nutrition &
Health Performance
Chemicals Performance
Materials Safety &
Protection Total 1
Asia Pacific 23 9 1 9 6 17 6 71
EMEA226 3 7 18 5 8 3 70
Latin America 18 — 1 7 1 1 — 28
U.S. & Canada 63 18 7 12 28 16 9 153
130 30 16 46 40 42 18 322
1. Sites that are used by multiple segments are included more than once in the figures above.
2. Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
The company's plants and equipment are well maintained and in good operating condition. The company believes it has sufficient
production capacity to meet demand in 2015. Properties are primarily owned by the company; however, certain properties are
leased. No title examination of the properties has been made for the purpose of this report and certain properties are shared with
other tenants under long-term leases.
DuPont recognizes that the security and safety of its operations are critical to its employees, community and to the future of the
company. As such, the company has merged chemical site security into its safety core value where it serves as an integral part of
its long standing safety culture. Physical security measures have been combined with process safety measures (including the use
of inherently safer technology), administrative procedures and emergency response preparedness into an integrated security plan.
The company has conducted vulnerability assessments at operating facilities in the U.S. and high priority sites worldwide and
identified and implemented appropriate measures to protect these facilities from physical and cyber attacks. DuPont is partnering
with carriers, including railroad, shipping and trucking companies, to secure chemicals in transit.