DuPont

History

Year	Detail
1802	E.I. du Pont founded the company on the shores of the Brandywine Creek, U.S.
1917	DuPont acquired the Harrison Brothers Paint Company and started selling lithopone and lithopone paints.
1924	DuPont formed a joint venture with the Pathé Cinema Société Anonyme of Paris, the DuPont-Pathé Film Manufacturing Corporation. By the late 1920s, the company produced 35mm positive movie films and sold about $4 million annually.
1962	The company commercialized Lycra, a segmented polyurethane.
1967	DuPont launched Nomex in both woven and nonwoven forms. Offered in paper, felt, fabric, and fiber forms, Nomex served a variety of industries but was primarily used in firefighters’ apparel.
1970	The company purchased the instruments division of Bell & Howell and moved into electronic biomedical instruments.
2003	DuPont and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory formed a joint research agreement to develop the world's first integrated "bio-refinery" that uses corn or other renewable resources to produce valuable fuels and value-added chemicals.
2004	DuPont and Koch Industries, Inc. reached a definitive agreement to sell INVISTA, formerly DuPont Textiles & Interiors, to Koch's subsidiaries for $4.4 billion in cash.
2013	DuPont completed the sale of its coatings business to the private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Carlyle renamed the company to Axalta Coating Systems.
2015	DuPont separated its Performance Chemicals segment through the spin-off of The Chemours Company. Chemours began to operate as an independent, publicly traded company.
2021	DuPont completed separating its Nutrition & Biosciences (N&B) business, and as part of the transaction, N&B merged with IFF.
2022	DuPont acquired Laird Performance Materials, a high-performance electromagnetic shielding and thermal management solutions manufacturer.
2023	DuPont opened a new Adhesives manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang (ZJG), East China. The new plant will manufacture adhesives for transportation customers.