Full Description

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), incorporated in 1915, operates a range of products and services for markets, including agriculture and food, building and construction, electronics and communications, general industrial, and transportation. The Company is organized in six segments: Agriculture & Nutrition, Coatings & Color Technologies, Electronic & Communication Technologies, Performance Materials, Safety & Protection and Pharmaceuticals. The Company includes embryonic businesses, such as applied biosciences and nonaligned businesses in Other. The Company had operations in approximately 90 countries worldwide and about 64 % of consolidated net sales are made to customers outside the United States of America during the year ended December 31, 2008. In October 2008, the Company acquired Coastal Training Technologies Corporation.

On February 1, 2008, DuPont acquired Chemtura Fluorine Chemicals Business. On February 13, 2008, DuPont launched its collection for DuPont Corian solid surfaces with the translucent Illumination Series. On February 8, 2008, Etigra Acquired Super Boll and FreeFall cotton products of DuPont.

Agriculture & Nutrition

Agriculture & Nutrition operates across the food value chain from inputs for producing agriculture products to global production and distribution of soy-based food ingredients to food diagnostic testing equipment. Agriculture & Nutrition includes the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Pioneer), which is a seed brand cultivating crop yields with hybrid and varietal seeds, and provides insect protection and herbicide tolerance. The principal products of Pioneer are hybrid seed corn and soybean seed. During 2008, Pioneer launched approximately 30 soybean varieties and 60 Pioneer brand corn hybrids that include new combinations of corn borer, corn rootworm and weed management traits highlighted by the expansion of the Herculex family of traits. Agriculture & Nutrition also serves the global production agriculture industry with crop protection products in the grain and specialty crop sectors, forestry and vegetation management. Principal crop protection products are herbicides, fungicides, insect control products and plant growth regulators. Agriculture & Nutrition also operates within the specialty food ingredients market, including soy proteins and lecithins through its majority owned venture with Bunge Limited, The Solae Company.

Coatings & Color Technologies

Coatings & Color Technologies is a motor vehicle coatings supplier and a manufacturer of titanium dioxide products. Products offered include high-performance liquid and powder coatings for motor vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), the motor vehicle aftermarket and general industrial applications, such as coatings for heavy equipment, pipes and appliances and electrical insulation. DuPont markets its refinish products using the DuPont, Standox, Spies Hecker and Nason brand names. The segment’s line of DuPont Ti-Pure titanium dioxide products, in both slurry and powder form, serve the coatings, plastic and paper industries.

Electronic & Communication Technologies

Electronic & Communication Technologies provides a range of advanced materials for the electronics industry, inks and flexographic printing, and a range of fluoropolymer and fluorochemical products. The segment also continues to pursue development activities related to displays and alternative energy. In the electronics industry, DuPont supplies electronic and advanced display materials. The Company offers a portfolio of ceramic, flexible and rigid organic circuit materials; materials for semiconductor fabrication and packaging, and a range of products for advanced displays. Major product lines include DuPont Cyrel and Cyrel FAST flexographic printing systems. It also includes a portfolio of industrial and specialty fluorochemicals and fluoropolymers, which are sold into the refrigeration, insulation, aerosol propellants, fire extinguishants, telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, electronics, chemical processing and housewares industries.

Performance Materials

Performance Materials provides customers with performance polymer materials, elastomers, films, parts, and systems and solutions. Performance Materials delivers a polymer-based materials product portfolio, including thermoplastic and thermoset engineering polymers and elastomers, which are used by customers to fabricate components for mechanical, chemical and electrical systems, as well as specialized resins and films used in packaging and industrial applications, sealants and adhesives, sporting goods and interlayers for laminated safety glass. Key brands include DuPont Zytel nylon resins, Delrin acetal resins, Hytrel polyester thermoplastic elastomer resins, Vespel parts and shapes, Tynex filaments, Surlyn resins, Vamac ethylene acrylic elastomer, SentryGlas Plus and Butacite laminate interlayers, Mylar and Melinex polyester films, Kalrez perfluoroelastomer and Viton fluoroelastomers. The key markets served by the segment include the automotive OEM and associated after-market industries, as well as electrical, electronics, packaging, construction oil, photovoltaics, aerospace, chemical processing and consumer durable goods.

Safety & Protection

Safety & Protection caters to the global needs of businesses, governments and consumers. The Company unites market-driven science with the brands, such as Kevlar, Tyvek, Nomex and Corian. The segment serves customers in markets, which include construction, transportation, communications, industrial chemicals, oil and gas, electric utilities, automotive, manufacturing, defense, homeland security and safety consulting.

Pharmaceuticals

DuPont has interest in Cozaar (losartan potassium) and Hyzaar (losartan potassium with hydrochlorothiazide). DuPont has exclusively licensed worldwide marketing and manufacturing rights for Cozaar and Hyzaar to Merck & Co. (Merck). Merck is responsible for manufacturing, marketing and selling Cozaar and Hyzaar.

Other

Applied biosciences is focused on the development of biotechnology solutions using biology, chemistry, materials science and engineering in an integrated fashion. Nonaligned businesses include activities associated with Benlate fungicide and other discontinued businesses.