Car paint manufacturer Dupont de Nemours

This American company, over 200 years old, is well known as Dupont, and is one of the most renowned car paint brands in the world of bodywork professionals and automotive manufacturers.

Car painting with its "Dupont Performance Coating" branch is not at all Dupont's only activity, far from it ! This company became known for the development of many well-known polymers during the beginning of the twentieth century, for its activity in chemistry and also the creation of synthetic pigments used in paints.

Today, the multi-card company is expert in all areas of science, no longer exists as Dupont de Nemours as it was absorbed by Dow Chemicals to become DowDuPont. Prior to its takeover, it was the world's fourth largest chemical company by capitalization.
It does not directly compete with body paint brands, as it remains primarily a producer of raw materials, chemicals , resins and pigments which are used by manufacturers to create paints and many other products.

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The Dupont car paint brand

Today, we find bodywork products under the Dupont brand, with Cromax or Chromaclear products for example: all experienced painters recognize the wonderful characteristics of these automotive finishing products.

This expertise comes a long way, that is to say almost a century of activity in the field of the manufacture of resins, chemicals and pigments :
After the war, its chemical expertise goes allow it to develop a number of new materials from resins and polymers which will be patented and widely used throughout the world: examples are nylon or Lycra in the 80s until the 2000s, the Dupont company continues its development and diversification in the world of solvents and hydrocarbons, which are used to produce these fibers and other products.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Dupont describes itself as a science company: it employs several tens of thousands of people throughout the world and is organized around different poles such as electronics technologies, materials, coatings and paints, safety, agriculture.
Do you know that in 2011 the world's leading producer of white pigments, i.e. titanium dioxide, was Dupont ? With its numerous laboratories and thousands of chemists, it has become a leading company in the field of automotive coatings.
Dupont performance Coating is based in Germany and is dedicated to powder coatings, solvent-based paints or "hydro-based" paints. » for automotive, chassis, bodywork and many other media. This chemical giant produces nearly 100,000 tons of paint each year.

The history of the Dupont brand

It was founded in 1802 by a French-born American chemist and industrialist whose name was Dupont de Nemours.
This company, which relied on investments of French origin just after the French Revolution , which the founder fled with his family, will experience very rapid growth from the outset. It produces gunpowder, then dynamite. The founder will die before seeing the changes and diversifications that the company has shown, with his entry into the world of chemistry. Since its creation, Dupont has become one of the most important suppliers of the state, in crucial fields relating to armaments. During the Second World War, it relies on technologies, patent protections and becomes the partner of countries like Germany to which it provides these chemical technologies.

Dupont brand paints

Today, automotive paint products are marketed under the DUPONT name. Users of these products know that the result obtained with the brand's varnishes or paints are always exceptional, whatever the conditions or the quality of the application, the quality of the product is such that the work is always perfectly successful. It is also Dupont who will create the special pigments for paint called CHROMAFLAIR® which are the first pigments to be able to change colors according to the angle of view and which are applicable in a variety of fields, not simply in the automotive.
Indeed, this multilayer pigment technology can be used in plastics, fibers and fabrics, and packaging. Their visual effects are impressive and the innovative contribution in the different worlds of decoration or bodywork is a real leap forward, which represents the birth of special effect paints.

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