DuPont Company

American speciality products company with its head office at Wilmington in Delaware, whose name goes back to the gunpowder business founded in 1802, restructured through the DowDuPont merger and the separations of 2019 and later years. Makes electronics and industrial materials, water filtration and purification membranes, protective materials such as Tyvek and Nomex and healthcare materials including silicones, biomaterials and packaging films for medical and pharmaceutical use, and runs its own research and analytical and product safety laboratories.