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DuPont Textile Legacy: Why the Company That Invented Nylon No Longer Owns It

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Ask someone in the fabric trade where a stretch fiber came from, and “DuPont” comes up constantly often incorrectly, in the present tense. DuPont Textile built more foundational textile chemistry than almost any company in history, but a series of corporate divestitures over the last two decades means the company barely touches consumer fiber production […]

DuPont and the Science Behind Elastomultiester Stretch Yarn

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DuPont formally E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company is one of the most consequential companies in the history of textile science. Founded in 1802 as a gunpowder manufacturer, DuPont transformed into a global chemical and materials giant through the 20th century. Its contributions to the textile industry include the invention of Nylon (1935), […]

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