DuPont Wins 5 2022 R&D 100 Awards

WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — DuPont (NYSE: DD) as we speak introduced that it has been named winner of 5 2022 R&D100 Awards within the Mechanical/Supplies class. The R&D 100 Awards, sponsored by R&D World Journal, acknowledges the 100 most revolutionary applied sciences of the earlier 12 months. The awards add to DuPont’s spectacular streak of latest product innovation, having 22 finalists and 10 R&D 100 winners within the final 5 years. 

“Innovation is on the middle of the whole lot we do at DuPont, and receiving this award exemplifies DuPont’s tireless pursuit of outcome-driven analysis that’s driving progress in our strategic focus areas,” stated Alexa Dembek, DuPont Chief Know-how & Sustainability Officer. “I am so happy with the innovation and ingenuity our groups contribute every single day to translate cutting-edge pondering into buyer influence whereas residing our function to empower the world with important improvements to thrive.”

DuPont successful applied sciences embody options for water, subsequent era automotive, electronics and sustainable development:

Brine Focus with FilmTec™ Fortilife™ XC120 membranes – FilmTec™ Fortilife™ XC120 is a spiral-wound reverse osmosis factor that recovers extra water and achieves larger brine concentrations in wastewater remedy techniques than standard merchandise. That is achieved with an revolutionary membrane and specialised feed and permeate spacers, resulting in distinctive efficiency in minimal liquid discharge purposes.

DuPont™ BETATECH™ Thermal Interface Materials – BETATECH™ thermal interface materials is a novel answer that helps management warmth in electrical car batteries. Excessive thermal conductivity permits for environment friendly thermal administration, serving to keep optimum battery temperatures throughout each charging and operation, extending car vary and enhancing car security as a consequence of decreased probability of thermal runaway.

KapFlo™: Clear Polyimides with out compromising Excessive Temperature Stability for Subsequent Technology OLED Smartphone Shows – Smartphone producers have been attempting quite a few methods to create a very edge-to-edge show that reaches all 4 edges of the body with no interruption. This requires a versatile, optically clear, and high-temperature secure polymer as OLED substrate materials. KapFlo(TM) is the primary of its variety materials to allow this expertise.

Low GWP Froth-Pak™ Spray Foam – The brand new Froth-Pak™ spray foams boast a blowing agent GWP discount of greater than 99% as in comparison with blowing brokers utilized in previous formulations, whereas sustaining the efficiency attributes skilled contractors count on. Froth-Pak™ Spray Foam is a conveyable equipment for skilled contractors to effectively fill wall cavities and penetrations – bettering vitality effectivity, constructing resilience and luxury for householders.

Improvements from DuPont’s Mobility & Supplies companies have been additionally acknowledged:

R&D 100 Award Winner: DuPont™ GreenTape™ 9KC LTCC and Ag metallization for mmWave 5G wi-fi units – DuPont™ GreenTape™ 9KC Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) system with Ag metallization is understood for the bottom dielectric loss at Df ≤ 0.0009 all through the 5G millimeter wave wi-fi communication frequencies. This technique permits financial mass manufacturing for prime reliability modules that includes heterogenous IC packaging, antennae, sign routing.

R&D 100 Award Finalists: DuPont Zytel® HTN50Gxx sequence (HTN50G35HSL, HTN50G35FWS): from a brand new polymer spine HTN500 PPA (Polyphthalamide) resin for Automotive Software and DuPont Zytel® RS32G10DO Renewably-Sourced Low-Density Materials for Gentle-Weighting Shopper Electronics.

DuPont introduced that it’s going to divest a majority of the Mobility & Supplies phase to Celanese on February 18, 2022.

The R&D 100 Awards, now in its 60^th 12 months, are well known because the “Oscars of Invention,” as they determine and have a good time the highest expertise services of the 12 months. This 12 months, the R&D Awards acquired entries from a dozen completely different international locations and areas and nominations have been judged by 50 well-respected business professionals world wide.

About DuPont

DuPont (NYSE: DD) is a world innovation chief with technology-based supplies and options that assist remodel industries and on a regular basis life. Our staff apply various science and experience to assist prospects advance their greatest concepts and ship important improvements in key markets together with electronics, transportation, development, water, healthcare and employee security. Extra details about the corporate, its companies and options might be discovered at www.dupont.com. Traders can entry data included on the Investor Relations part of the web site at buyers.dupont.com.

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Overview

On November 2, 2021, DuPont introduced it has entered definitive agreements to accumulate Rogers Company (“Rogers”), (the “Supposed Rogers Acquisition”). On January 25, 2022, Rogers’s shareholders authorized the transaction. Closing is predicted within the third quarter 2022, topic to regulatory approvals and customary closing situations.

On February 18, 2022, DuPont introduced that it has entered into definitive agreements to divest a majority of its historic Mobility & Supplies phase, excluding sure Superior Options and Efficiency Resins companies, to Celanese Company (“Celanese”), (the “M&M Divestiture”). Closing is predicted across the finish of 2022, topic to regulatory approvals and customary closing situations. The Firm additionally introduced on February 18, 2022, that its Board of Administrators has authorized the divestiture of the Delrin^® acetal homopolymer (H-POM) enterprise. Along with the entry into definitive agreements, the Firm anticipates that the closing of the sale of Delrin^® could be topic to regulatory approvals and different customary closing situations, (the “Delrin® Divestiture” and along with the M&M Divestiture, the “M&M Divestitures”).

As of March 31, 2022, the outcomes of operations and the property and liabilities of the companies in scope for the M&M Divestitures are introduced as discontinued operations for all durations introduced. The money flows of those companies haven’t been segregated and are included within the interim Consolidated Assertion of Money Flows. Until in any other case indicated, the dialogue of outcomes, together with the monetary measures additional mentioned under, refer solely to DuPont’s Persevering with Operations and don’t embody dialogue of balances or exercise of the companies in scope for the M&M Divestitures. The Auto Adhesives & Fluids, Multibase^TM and Tedlar^® product strains beforehand inside the historic Mobility & Supplies phase (the “Retained Companies”) should not included within the scope of the supposed divestitures. The Retained Companies are reported in Company & Different. The reporting adjustments have been retrospectively utilized for all durations introduced.

Cautionary Assertion about Ahead-looking Statements

This communication accommodates “forward-looking statements” inside the which means of the federal securities legal guidelines, together with Part 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Part 21E of the Securities Change Act of 1934, as amended. On this context, forward-looking statements typically tackle anticipated future enterprise and monetary efficiency and monetary situation, and sometimes include phrases comparable to “count on,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “imagine,” “search,” “see,” “will,” “would,” “goal,” and comparable expressions and variations or negatives of those phrases.

Ahead-looking statements tackle issues which can be, to various levels, unsure and topic to dangers, uncertainties, and assumptions, a lot of which which can be past DuPont’s management, that might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these expressed in any forward-looking statements. Ahead-looking statements should not ensures of future outcomes. A few of the vital elements that might trigger DuPont’s precise outcomes to vary materially from these projected in any such forward-looking statements embody, however should not restricted to: (i) the events’ potential to satisfy expectations relating to the timing, completion and accounting and tax remedies of the M&M Divestiture to Celanese, together with (x) any failure to acquire needed regulatory approvals, anticipated tax remedy or to fulfill any of the opposite situations to the proposed transaction, (y) the chance that unexpected liabilities, future capital expenditures, revenues, bills, earnings, synergies, financial efficiency, indebtedness, monetary situation, losses, future prospects, enterprise and administration methods may influence the worth, timing or pursuit of the proposed transaction, and (z) dangers and prices and pursuit and/or implementation, timing and impacts to enterprise operations  of the separation of enterprise strains in scope for the M&M Divestiture to Celanese, (ii) the timing and consequence of the Delrin® Enterprise Divestiture, together with entry into definitive agreements, and the dangers, prices and talent to appreciate advantages from the pursuit of the Delrin^® Enterprise Divestiture; (iii) potential to attain anticipated tax remedies in reference to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and different portfolio adjustments actions and influence of adjustments in related tax and different legal guidelines; (iv) indemnification of sure legacy liabilities; (v) dangers and prices associated to every of the events respective efficiency underneath and the influence of the association to share future eligible PFAS prices by and between DuPont, Corteva and Chemours; (vi) failure to well timed shut on anticipated phrases (or in any respect), notice anticipated advantages and successfully handle and obtain anticipated synergies and operational efficiencies in reference to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and different portfolio adjustments together with the Supposed Rogers Acquisition and the M&M Divestitures; (vii) dangers and uncertainties, together with elevated prices and the flexibility to acquire uncooked supplies and meet buyer wants, associated to operational and provide chain impacts or disruptions, which can end result from, amongst different occasions, the COVID-19 pandemic and actions in response to it, and geo-political and climate associated occasions; (viii) potential to offset will increase in value of inputs, together with uncooked supplies, vitality and logistics; (ix) dangers, together with potential to attain, and prices related to DuPont’s sustainability technique together with the precise conduct of the corporate’s actions and outcomes thereof, and the event, implementation, achievement or continuation of any purpose, program, coverage or initiative mentioned or anticipated; and (x) different dangers to DuPont’s enterprise, operations; every as additional mentioned in DuPont’s most up-to-date annual report and subsequent present and periodic studies filed with the U.S. Securities and Change Fee. Unlisted elements might current important further obstacles to the conclusion of forward-looking statements. Penalties of fabric variations in outcomes as in contrast with these anticipated within the forward-looking statements may embody, amongst different issues, enterprise or provide chain disruption, operational issues, monetary loss, authorized legal responsibility to 3rd events and comparable dangers, any of which may have a fabric hostile impact on DuPont’s consolidated monetary situation, outcomes of operations, credit standing or liquidity. You shouldn’t place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which communicate solely as of the date they’re made. DuPont assumes no obligation to publicly present revisions or updates to any forward-looking statements whether or not because of new data, future developments or in any other case, ought to circumstances change, besides as in any other case required by securities and different relevant legal guidelines.

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