NYLON, Rayon, Lycra, Neoprene, Teflon, polyethylene, cellophane – these household names can all be traced to one company: DuPont.
For more than 200 years, DuPont has introduced innovative materials to fulfil every imaginable human need, including those we didn’t even know we needed such as nylon hosiery or Lycra, the stretchy fibre that revolutionised clothing (and enabled us to squeeze into those skinny denims), or even graffiti-resistant coatings.
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