DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American diversified resource and specialty chemical conglomerate headquartered and organized in Delaware. The brand produces products for the healthcare, water, construction and industrial markets. It was formed in 1802 as a gunpowder mill by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.
The company operates two divisions: Healthcare & Water Technologies, which produces medical packaging such as Tyvek packaging and TYCHEM protective suits as well as AMBERLITE ion exchange resins, FILMTEC reverse osmosis and nanofiltration elements and INGE and ITEGRATEC ultrafiltration modules; and Diversified Industrials, which produces products for repair‑and‑remodel construction such as Tyvek house wrap, Styrofoam insulation, CORIAN, Vespel shapes and parts, MOLYKOTE lubricants, BETAFORCE, and BETASEAL.
In 2015, DuPont and the Dow Chemical Company agreed to a reorganization plan in which the two companies would merge and split into three. As a merged entity, DuPont simultaneously acquired Dow and renamed itself to DowDuPont on August 31, 2017.