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Performance Chemicals segment sales outside the U.S. accounted for 56 percent of the segment's total sales in 2012.
Performance Materials
Performance Materials businesses, Performance Polymers and Packaging & Industrial Polymers, provide productive, higher performance polymers,
elastomers, films, parts, and systems and solutions which improve the uniqueness, functionality and profitability of its customers' offerings. The key
markets served by the segment include the automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and associated after-market industries, as well as electrical,
packaging, construction, oil, electronics, photovoltaics, aerospace, chemical processing and consumer durable goods. The segment has several large
customers, primarily in the motor vehicle OEM industry supply chain. The company has long-standing relationships with these customers and they are
considered to be important to the segment's operating results.
Performance Polymers delivers a broad range of polymer-based high performance materials in its product portfolio, including elastomers and thermoplastic
and thermoset engineering polymers which are used by customers to fabricate components for mechanical, chemical and electrical systems. The main
products include: DuPontTM Zytel® nylon resins, Delrin® acetal resins, Hytrel® polyester thermoplastic elastomer resins, Tynex® filaments, Vespel® parts and
shapes, Vamac® ethylene acrylic elastomer, Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer and Viton® fluoroelastomers. Performance Polymers also includes the DuPont Teijin
Films joint venture, whose primary products are Mylar ® and Melinex® polyester films.
Packaging & Industrial Polymers specializes in resins and films used in packaging and industrial polymer applications, sealants and adhesives, sporting
goods, and interlayers for laminated safety glass. Key brands include: DuPont TM Surlyn® ionomer resins, Bynel® coextrudable adhesive resins, Elvax® EVA
resins, SentryGlas®, Butacite® laminate interlayers and Elvaloy® copolymer resins.
The major commodities, raw materials and supplies for the Performance Materials segment include: acrylic monomers, adipic acid, butadiene, butanediol,
dimethyl terephthalate, ethane, fiberglass, hexamethylenediamine, methanol, natural gas and purified terephthalic acid.
Performance Materials segment sales outside the U.S. accounted for 69 percent of the segment's total sales in 2012.
Safety & Protection
Safety & Protection businesses, Protection Technologies, Sustainable Solutions and Building Innovations, satisfy the growing global needs of businesses,
governments and consumers for solutions that make life safer, healthier and more secure. By uniting market-driven science with the strength of highly
regarded brands, the segment delivers products and services to a large number of markets, including construction, transportation, communications, industrial
chemicals, oil and gas, electric utilities, automotive, manufacturing, defense, homeland security and safety consulting.
Protection Technologies is focused on finding solutions to protect people and the environment. With products like DuPont™ Kevlar ® high strength material,
Nomex® thermal resistant material and Tyvek® protective material, the business continues to hold strong positions in life protection markets and meet the
continued demand for body armor and personal protective gear for the military, law enforcement personnel, firefighters and other first responders, as well as
for workers in the oil and gas industry around the world. In 2011, the business announced the start up of its $500 million Cooper River Kevlar ® facility near
Charleston, South Carolina. The Cooper River Kevlar ® plant uses state-of-the-art technology that will allow the business to meet increased customer demand
for advanced protective materials in emerging industries around the world by expanding its portfolio of science-based innovations and boosting productivity.
Commercial supply began at the end of 2011.
Sustainable Solutions continues to help organizations worldwide reduce workplace injuries and fatalities while improving operating costs, productivity and
quality. Sustainable Solutions is a leader in the safety consulting field, selling training products, as well as consulting services. Additionally, Sustainable
Solutions is dedicated to clean air, clean fuel and clean water with offerings that help reduce sulfur and other emissions, formulate cleaner fuels, or dispose of
liquid waste. Its goal is to help maintain business continuity and environmental compliance for companies in the refining and petrochemical industries, as well
as for government entities. The business includes MECS, Inc. (MECS), which is a leading global provider of process technology, proprietary specialty
equipment and technical services to the sulfuric acid industry.
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