Experimental Station
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The DuPont Experimental Station is the largest research and development facility of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Located on the banks of the Brandywine River in Wilmington, DE, it is home to some of the world's most important chemical discoveries.
The Experimental Station marked its 100th anniversary in 2003. It was founded as an effort to move the DuPont Company from gunpowder and explosives into the new age of chemistry. Fittingly, the site looks acoss the Brandywine at the old DuPont powder mills, now the Hagley Museum and Library, a nonprofit educational institution documenting the history of DuPont business and technology. Thus the future of the company can always see the past.
As one of the first industrial research laboratories in the United States, the 150-acre campus-style Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, serves as the primary research and development facility for DuPont. It is home to DuPont's Central Research and most other business units of DuPont are also represented on site. The Experimental Station is the birthplace of many of the innovative materials and products developed by DuPont since 1903, including:
Neoprene - the world's first synthetic rubber;
Nylon polyamide for fibers and engineering polymers for machine parts, gears, electrical systems and even automobile air intake manifolds;
Tyvek nonwovens for housewrap, envelopes, environmental protection and currency;
Kevlar fiber for body armor and automobile tire reinforcement;
Mylar polyester film for packaging material and balloons;
Corian solid surface materials for countertops, flooring and art ;
Butacite polyvinyl butyral, the safety interlayer in laminated glass; and
Nomex fiber for firefighting equipment and other thermal protection applications.
Today nearly 2,000 scientists and researchers - including roughly 600 with Ph.D.s - pursue science-based solutions for global markets including agriculture and nutrition, electronics, safety and protection, coatings and performance materials. There are over 50 buildings encompassing 250,000 square meters of research space. Collaborating to build on a legacy of scientific discovery, they create materials that make people safer and more comfortable and improve their performance at work, home and play. These include Suva refrigerants, the BAX food safety systems and Sorona polyester.
Research and development now under way includes nanotechnology, emerging video display technologies, fuel cells, and biomaterials produced from renewable resources such as corn. These developments could lead to foods that help prevent diseases and brittle bones, "smart" materials that can adjust performance on their own, microorganisms that produce biodegradable products and innovative materials for personal protection.
On the morning of January 24, 2007, President George W. Bush became the first president to visit the Experimental Station. He saw examples of how DuPont is putting science to work to provide products for agricultural energy crops, feedstock processing and advanced biofuels such as ethanol and bio-butanol. He also viewed other alternative energy sources and technologies dealing with energy conservation. These all part of the DuPont’s sustainable growth mission.
[edit] References:
David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith, Jr., “Science and Corporate Strategy – DuPont R&D 1902-1980,” Cambridge University Press, 1988.
[edit] External Links:
Timeline of discoveries at the DuPont Experimental Station [1]
Experimental Station in the history of DuPont [2]
A Wikimapia overhead view of the Experimental Station [3]
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