DuPont

DuPont has been bringing world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace in the form of innovative products, materials and services since 1802. The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment.

DuPont is a world’s leading science and technology company. For more than 200 years the company has been developing and marketing innovative products, materials and services. Its scientists created a number of materials our life cannot be thought of without: cellophane, neoprene, and nylon. The list of DuPont’s discoveries can be supplemented with Lycra, Tyvek®, Nomex®, Kevlar®, Teflon®. The company works on creating new materials and solutions for different industries.

Today the Earth population is rocketing, reaching 9 bln by 2050. DuPont collaborates with other companies, governments, scientific and non-commercial organizations, and experts for solving the most important tasks of the modern world: provision of population with enough wholesome food, minimization of dependence on fossil fuels, protection of a human being and environment.

The environmental protection is one of DuPont’s key values. To ensure sustainable development, the company committed to decrease its environmental impact. Those commitments include reduction of emissions and use of non-renewable energy sources at the company’s production facilities, and development of new products that favor environmental protection for different industries. By end 2012, more than 1,000 such products were developed.

Among them, ozone-safe refrigerants ISCEON® and new low GWP refrigerants Opteon®, used in all areas requiring refrigeration and covering the entire refrigeration chain: from food production and transportation to storage; air-conditioning in premises and automobiles; industrial refrigeration in the atomic power engineering and chemical industry. For more than 80 years DuPont have been one of the world’s leaders in the refrigerant production. We are proud that our solutions help to save the environment for future generations.