Future of DuPont
CATEGORIES
- Asset Performance
- Innovation assets and pipeline
- Disruption vulnerability
- Company headlines
- Company’s future prospects
DATA ACCESS
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, popularly known as DuPont, is a US conglomerate that was established in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by US industrialist and chemist, eleuthere Irenee du Pont. DuPont produced various polymers in the 20th century such as neoprene, Corian, Mylar, Kevlar, M5 fiber, Tyvek, Lycra, nylon, Teflon, Kapton, Zemdrain, Nomex, Sorona, Corfam, and Vespel. It also developed Freon (chlorofluorocarbons) for the refrigerant industry, and later more environmentally friendly refrigerants. Dupont also developed synthetic paints and pigments including ChromaFlair.
Innovation assets and Pipeline
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DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY
Belonging to the chemicals sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:
*First off, artificial intelligence (AI) systems will discover new thousands of new compounds faster than humans that can, compounds that can be applied to everything from creating new makeup to cleaning agents to more effective medicines.
*This automated process of chemical compound discovery will accelerate once AI systems are integrated with mature quantum computers by the late 2020s, allowing these AI systems will compute ever more massive amounts of data.