Air Liquide entered the U.S. market more than 100 years ago. Today, Air Liquide​ in the U.S.​ counts more than 20,000 employees in more than 1,300 locations​,​ offering​​ industrial gases and related services to customers in a range of industries, including oil and gas, chemicals, metals, construction, food and beverage, research and analysis, electronics and healthcare.

Other entities active in the U.S.

Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is the nation's leading single-source supplier of gases, welding equipment and supplies, and safety products. With more than one million customers, Airgas excels at providing customers, large and small. Learn more on the Airgas.com website.

Scott Medical Products, a brand of Airgas Healthcare, is a leading worldwide manufacturer of specialty medical gases and associated equipment, as well as active pharmaceutical ingredient fluorocarbon products. With a state-of-the-art cGMP, ISO 9003- registered manufacturing facility and as a registered FDA In-Vitro diagnostic device manufacturer, we can also provide custom products and regulatory and supply chain expertise.

SEPPIC and Schülke are subsidiaries of the Air Liquide group in the healthcare business. SEPPIC designs and markets specialty ingredients and has a presence in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, nutrition and vaccine markets. It employs 700 employees in 14 countries and have more than 6,000 customers in 100 countries, 80 distributors and 4 production sites. Schülke specializes in preservation and industrial hygiene, fighting global disease and contamination before they occur. They develop, produce and distribute more than 200 products around the world including disinfectants, antiseptics, medicated skin care products, preservatives, deodorant, and system cleaners. Schülke offers innovative technologies, products and services in two core business areas: hygiene and special additives.

Air Liquide Large Industries U.S. LP supplies large quantities of industrial gases to its customers in the metals, chemicals, refining and energy industries. Due to their substantial gas consumption and their need for highly reliable continuous supply, delivery must be ensured through a dedicated plant or via the Air Liquide pipeline network. It also offers technologies and solutions that enhance customer performance through improved energy efficiency and reduced environmental footprint.

 

Air Liquide Electronics U.S. LP Leveraging its expertise, infrastructure and strategic proximity to its customers, Air Liquide Electronics U.S. serves major manufacturers of semiconductors, flat panel displays and solar cells. Our innovative materials respond to increasingly challenging customer demands for improved mobility, connectivity, computing power and energy consumption. Our offferings include ultra-pure carrier gases, a wide range of specialty gases and advanced precursor molecules, enabling equipment for safe distribution, purification and online purity control.

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction designs, engineers and constructs leading-edge processing facilities and related infrastructure. We are a technology partner of choice for the design, engineering and construction of leading-edge production units and related infrastructure worldwide. Houston, Texas is home to one of Air Liquide’s five engineering centers worldwide.

Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S., LLC

    New energies: Air Liquide Advanced Business & Technologies (aB&T) develops, shapes and incubates significant new markets, sustainable for Air Liquide and our society. With a strong expertise in cutting-edge technologies and inspired by disruptive mindsets, we open new business frontiers. We develop user-focused, innovative and competitive solutions, from the high tech fields: space, aerospace, and scientific research, to the energy transition territories: hydrogen energy and biogas, with a collaborative spirit and an appetite for entrepreneurship.

    Advanced technology: For more than 50 years, innovation has been at the heart of the business at Air Liquide Advanced Technologies. Squarely focused on the future, we strive to develop the savoir-faire of Air Liquide, the world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, in highly-technical technology areas. We specialize in extreme cryogenics and gas engineering, and we offer novel and competitive solutions for our customers.

Air Liquide Advanced Materials

Air Liquide invents and produces innovative molecules the world’s electronics technology leaders require. Custom designed, our wide range of services and equipment facilitate uninterrupted onsite management of gas in compliance with the highest standards of safety. Our R&D centers host a wide range of competencies in achieving the highest level of excellence in the technologies it provides to its customers. At our Delaware Research and Technology Center in Newark, Delaware, (DRTC), the development of innovative solutions for all the Group’s activities on multiple research fields is supported by 7 Global Labs:

 

    Process Engineering

    Life Science

    Fine Chemicals Synthesis & Surface Science

    Combustion

    Material Science

    Analytical Science

    Applied Mathematics

 

Supplier diversity

Air Liquide’s Supplier Diversity Program is devoted to giving the maximum practicable contracting opportunities to all categories of small business concerns (small business, small disadvantaged business, women owned small business, veteran owned small business, service disabled veteran owned small business, and historically underutilized business zone small business) and all categories of diverse suppliers. Our operations have an expansive U.S. presence, and we are committed to supporting local communities by providing opportunities to small and/or diverse suppliers who want to foster long-term, mutual sustainable growth.

"The success of an organization is largely due to how it looks for opportunities to grow and expand its business. At Air Liquide, we look constantly for ways to build on the success of our business portfolio. We know that through a dedicated and targeted supplier diversity program, we are positioning ourselves each day to better serve our customers through expanded product and services offerings. Supplier diversity is a win-win for our customers, our suppliers and Air Liquide."

Corporate social responsibility

At Air Liquide, we view community investment not as a choice but as a responsibility we take seriously. We are committed to supporting the communities in which we live and invest both financially and through volunteering time and expertise. In the U.S., Air Liquide’s community engagement program supports philanthropic initiatives dedicated to improving STEM education, child welfare and health, as well as relief efforts for natural disasters.

 

Milestones

Air Liquide, the world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health, has been building its leadership ever since the business was founded in 1902. Day after day, innovation after innovation, we have grown continuously to conquer new markets. Retrace the milestones of our long history here.

Georges Claude and Paul Delorme partnered to create the company Air Liquide in 1902.

1902

Air Liquide is born from the meeting of two men

Air Liquide was born from the meeting of two young graduates of the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle in Paris. An inspired and sometimes eccentric researcher, Georges Claude succeeded in perfecting the process of liquefying air after two years of relentless experimentation in a Paris bus garage. His partner, Paul Delorme, was a prudent visionary who, despite financial concerns, did not hesitate to support this industrial project and provided the crucial initial investment. The young company quickly attracted investment from 24 shareholders, and Air Liquide’s great adventure began.

Air Liquide looks to international market.

1906

The Group grows internationally

Since gases are difficult to transport, local production was essential. For this reason among many others, we looked to international markets at a very early stage and built numerous production units in other countries. The Group expanded rapidly at this time, beginning in Europe (1906), soon to be followed by Japan (1907), Canada (1911) and the USA (1916).

We appear on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1913.

1913

Air Liquide shares are traded for the first time on the Paris stock exchange

Our first 24 shareholders’ trust was amply rewarded when Air Liquide appeared on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1913. After more than 100 years on the stock market, individual shareholders are still very important for the Group. We now rely on the trust of more than 400,000 individual shareholders, a group that represents 36% of our total equity capital. Additionally, in 2014 and 2016 we won the Annual General Meeting Grand Prize, which rewards companies whose Annual General Meetings achieve market best practice standards.

Air Liquide creates Aqua Lung.

1946

Creation of Aqua Lung

In association with Commander Cousteau, Air Liquide invented the first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. That invention led to the establishment of Aqua Lung, a company that became the world leader in personal aquatic equipment for recreational and professional diving. The disposal of this activity was effective in December 2016.

1952

The cryogenic revolution gets underway

As the cryogenic revolution gathered speed, our company took on a new dimension thanks to our ability to package liquefied gas inside cryogenic tanks.

This delivered enormous benefits because it enabled bulk road and rail transportation of gases within a 150-mile radius of production sites. Two years later, in 1954, saw the start-up of a liquid oxygen production facility in northern France.

Thanks to our network of pipelines, our production capacity grew tenfold.

1960

Air Liquide implements its pipeline network strategy

At this time, Air Liquide implemented the first networking strategy to link its gas production units together by building a network of pipelines. As a result, our production capacity grew tenfold in response to booming demand from large-scale industries, beginning with oxygen for steelmaking, and later nitrogen for the chemicals industry. It was at this point that our Large Industries (LI) business line was born out of our long-term commitment to customers. Large Industries is above all characterized by extended partnerships of fifteen years or more.

Today, we manage 5,600 miles of networks around the world, especially in North America (in the Gulf of Mexico and along the banks of the Mississippi), in Europe (France, the Benelux countries and the Ruhr Valley in Germany), and many Asian countries.

The beginning of the partnership with the Ariane program.

1962

The space adventure blasts off for Air Liquide

Convinced of the industrial applications for cryogenics, the then Chairman & CEO of Air Liquide Jean Delorme made the decision to create an advanced research center dedicated to this technology near Grenoble. For us, this marked the beginning of our adventures in space and our partnership with the Ariane program.

Fifty years later, the adventure continues: Air Liquide is reaffirming its commitment to the space industry, and is using innovation to consolidate and expand its range of services for space exploration programs and both today and tomorrow’s orbital systems.

1970

Research center: the Group asserts its ambitions through innovation

Innovation has always been central to the history of our Group. In 1970, the Claude-Delorme Research Center on the Paris-Saclay plateau became a reality. The result is a major contribution to improving gas production techniques and developing applications for gases, from combustion to welding, metalworking, chemicals, electronics, food, breathing and environmental conditioning. This center embodies our commitment to understanding the industrial processes used by our customers, and developing new applications for gases in response to their quality, productivity, safety and environmental needs.

Air Liquide is the leader in very high capacity ASUs.

1976

Air Liquide makes a major change in technology

A jointly run project with Sasol in South Africa to convert coal to synthetic fuel required a major upscaling of our air separation units (ASUs). The resulting evolution in technology established the Group as the leader in very high capacity ASUs, a position we maintain to this day.

Air Liquide began supplying ultra-high purity gases for the young market for electronics.

1985

A new market emerges: Electronics

In order to seize the new opportunities offered by the young market for electronics, Air Liquide began supplying ultra-high purity gases to the burgeoning semiconductors industry in Japan. The Tsukuba Research Center, which opened in 1987, allows us to develop new processes for the production of extremely high purity gases, including carrier gases (chiefly nitrogen) used to inert microchip production systems and the specialty gases used directly in the manufacture of semiconductors.

The Group commits itself to greater environmental protection and more affordable energy.

1995

Air Liquide expands its range to include hydrogen and steam

Building on the Group’s offer in oxygen and nitrogen, hydrogen and steam were integrated in our range in the mid-1990s. It was at this time that the Group also formally stated its commitment to greater environmental protection and more affordable energy. As part of ensuring the success of this new range of gases, we adopted the business model that has made our business in air gases so successful, and immediately introduced a basin strategy based on pipeline network, offering our customers flexibility, distribution reliability and high-quality services at the best-possible price.

Air Liquide undertakes a new mission: protecting life

Originally simply a provider of oxygen to hospitals, Air Liquide now became a healthcare specialist. We launched our Home healthcare business supported by a network of specialist teams. Medical gases are classified as medications in many countries. We also diversified our activities by entering the hygiene market. At the same time, Air Liquide embarked on a series of major research programs in therapeutic gases used for anesthesia, intensive care and pain control.

2007-2008

Air Liquide makes its organization evolve to accelerate growth

 

The Air Liquide response to a changing world and constantly evolving markets was to implement a new organizational structure. In 2007, we created four World Business Lines – Large Industries, Industrial Merchant, Healthcare and Electronics – to deliver a more effective response to market needs. Air Liquide introduced its ALMA corporate program in 2008 so that we could seize new opportunities for growth: industrial development in developing countries, the growing importance of energy and environmental issues, and growth in the high technology and healthcare sectors.

2009

Air Liquide stands firm in an unprecedented crisis

Impacted by an economic and financial crisis of unprecedented extent, we focused our efforts on managing our cash, our expenditure and our investments. Against a background of global recession, we once again demonstrated the solidity of our long-term contracts and the relevance of our economic model. The Group proved itself to be the exception to the rule, reporting stable net income and protecting the strength of its balance sheet

The Yanbu production unit has been developed and constructed by our Lurgi division.

2010

Yanbu: the largest industrial investment in the history of the Group

This was the year in which Air Liquide Arabia invested US$450 million (more than €350 million) in two large-scale hydrogen production facilities with a total combined capacity of more than 300,000 Nm³ per hour. The result was the Group's largest industrial investment in its entire history and the signature of its largest-ever 'over the fence'1 hydrogen contract. This project has strengthened our strategic position and boosted growth in the Middle East. The Yanbu production unit has been developed and constructed by the Lurgi division of Air Liquide Engineering.

1 Over the fence: sales contract for gases (produced by an Air Liquide facility), as opposed to a sales contract for equipment enabling a customer to produce its own supplies of gases.

Air Liquide expands its international presence.

2010-2012

Updated objectives, new territories, new acquisitions

 

Slowly emerging from a crisis that reshuffled global growth, Air Liquide announced at year end 2010 new objectives for its ALMA program in terms of performance and responsibility. These objectives were revised at year end 2013 to factor in a slower than expected recovery in growth, in particular in Western Europe and Japan. Nevertheless, the Group accelerated its presence in new territories, including Turkey, Ukraine and Mexico, and strengthened its presence in China. These developments contributed to the increase, in eight years, of the developing economies' share of Gas & Services revenue from 15% to 28% in 2015.

In a weaker growth environment in the advanced economies, and particularly in Western Europe, Air Liquide intensified its acquisitions. At the end of 2012, two major home healthcare players joined the Group: LVL Médical in France and Gasmedi in Spain. Other acquisitions were completed to strengthen the Group’s positions in Healthcare in Poland, Scandinavia and Canada and in Industrial Merchant in Brazil, Russia, the Middle East and China.

2013-2015

New initiatives in the innovation field and hydrogen mobility

In 2013 Air Liquide launched two initiatives to promote open innovation: i-Lab, innovation Lab, and ALIAD, the Group’s capital investment subsidiary to make minority investments in innovative technology start-ups. In 2014, the Group decides on new investments with the modernization of the Paris Innovation Campus, the creation of a center for the development of gas cylinders for industry and healthcare, and the launch of a technical center of excellence for cryogenic production technologies.

In 2015, Air Liquide inaugurated Cryocap™ in France, a unique industrial installation that enables the capture of CO2 released during hydrogen production via a cryogenic process. On a worldwide scale, Air Liquide contributes actively to the development of the hydrogen energy activity by accompanying automotive manufacturers launching fuel cell electric vehicles on the market. Air Liquide has stepped up the construction of hydrogen charging stations around the world.

2016

Airgas acquisition

On May 23, 2016, the Group successfully closed its acquisition of Airgas, which will contribute to the company’s strategy of profitable growth over the long term. There is strong industrial and market logic to this acquisition, which will ideally position the company for future growth and value creation. The two businesses are highly complementary, and the transaction extends Air Liquide’s customer base through a unique multi-channel distribution network and a nationwide presence in the U.S.

2017

Integration of Airgas

Air Liquide continued to generate synergies through the integration of Airgas. Cost synergies are being achieved more quickly than expected and the first growth synergies materialized.

Refocusing on Gas & Services activities

Following the disposal of its Aqua Lung and Air Liquide Welding subsidiaries, Air Liquide focused on its Gas & Services activities and the implementation of its NEOS company program. The Gas & Services activities now represent 96% of the Group’s revenue.

New visual identity for the Group

To mark its transformation, the Group created a new logo, the fifth since the company was founded 115 years ago. This new visual identity, which embodies the change within Air Liquide, is that of a leading Group, expert and innovative, that is close to its stakeholders and open to the world.

BASF Corporation is the largest affiliate of BASF SE and the second largest producer and marketer of chemicals and related products in North America.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Through science and innovation we enable our customers in nearly every industry to meet the current and future needs of society.

Our Purpose

The purpose of BASF reflects what we do and why we do it:

We create chemistry for a sustainable future.

We want to contribute to a world that provides a viable future with enhanced quality of life for everyone. We do so by creating chemistry for our customers and society and by making the best use of available resources. We live our corporate purpose by: sourcing and producing responsibly, acting as a fair and reliable partner, connecting creative minds to find the best solutions for market needs. For us, this is what successful business is all about.

To reach these goals, we have defined our action areas.

Our Action Areas

When it comes to customers, we all stand together, and everyone impacts the experience our customers have with us. To be the leading chemical company, we must strengthen our performance in innovation and in operations, leverage digital ways of working, and integrate sustainability more deeply into our business decisions. We aim to strengthen our portfolio using the power of our Verbund integration. We will further develop our organization to run effectively and efficiently so that all of us can increase our focus on our customers. We have identified six action areas through which we aim to sharpen our customer focus.

Innovations for the future

A growing need for food, energy and clean water for a booming world population, limited resources and protecting the climate – reconciling all these factors is the greatest challenge of our time. Innovations based on chemistry play a key role here, as they contribute decisively to new solutions.

15 Minute Pit Stops

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Our Research

At BASF, more than 11,000 employees worldwide work in research and development on innovations for the chemical industry.

Our Innovations at BASF

BASF is one of the world's most innovative companies. Innovations are our wellspring and our driving force. With our products and processes, we provide sustainable solutions for global challenges.

Creative solutions and efficient research by interdisciplinary, diverse teams

For BASF, innovation is the key to successfully standing out from the crowd in a challenging market environment. Our innovative strength is based on our global team of highly qualified employees with various specializations.

For more than 120 years, Dow has strived to create value through its diversified, market-driven portfolio of specialty chemicals, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses.

Dow is committed to advancing science and innovation in response to the world’s most pressing challenges – enhancing the quality of life for current and future generations, while creating long-term sustainable value for the Company, its customers and its shareholders.

Dow delivers differentiated solutions that address these challenges and unmet market needs by leveraging cost advantage, scale and geographic presence, customer collaboration and industry-leading R&D expertise.

AMBITION & VALUES

Become the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable Materials Science Company in the world.

Goal

Deliver value growth and best-in-class performance.

Corporate Strategy

We are a focused, market-oriented growth company delivering customer and shareholder value through:

    Focused portfolio with a best owner mindset aligned to three consumer-driven market verticals: packaging, infrastructure, and consumer care

    Culture of benchmarking and increased granularity driving best-in-class performance

    Disciplined capital allocation towards lower-risk, high-return brownfield investment opportunities

    Streamlined and agile organization, cost structure and business model

Strategic Pillars

    Innovative: Alongside our customers, we create the materials and solutions that transform our world.

    Customer-centric: We aim to be easy, enjoyable and effective to do business with through all our digital and personal interactions.

    Inclusive: We champion a fully inclusive workforce that reflects the world in which we do business, because it’s the right thing and smart thing to do.

    Sustainable: In everything we do, we strive for positive impact on society and the planet.

Values

    Integrity

    Respect for People

    Protecting Our Planet

BELIEFS & CULTURE

We are a diverse community marked by respect, integrity and the desire to make the world a better place.

LEADERSHIP

Placing decision-marking at the appropriate level and ensures that the proper checks and balances are in place.

AWARDS

Dow’s inclusive culture, constant pursuit to improve the world and commitment to complete transparency and accountability have led to global recognition.

HISTORY

Over the course of nearly 125 years, from science start-up to innovation powerhouse, Dow has continuously transformed itself.

INITIATIVES & PARTNERSHIPS

Dow wants to connect the world with chemistry, with the wonder of the elements.

PUBLIC POLICY

Public Policy at Dow is based on an unwavering commitment to solving global challenges while effectively responding to regional and local needs.

Two scientists working in a laboratory.

Issues and Challenges

Learn about issues and challenges and what we are doing to work through them.

Global CItizenship

We believe in the power of collaboration to change the world. We strive to be a global corporate citizen.

CODES OF CONDUCT

From responsible sourcing to human rights, learn more about our codes of conduct.

SUPPLIER INFORMATION

Providing opportunities for suppliers around the world through Dow Purchasing.

VENTURE CAPITAL

Pursuing strategic investments that enable and accelerate Dow’s business growth while adding value to our portfolio companies.

WORK WITH DOW

Working with Dow ensures your experience will be as effortless as possible.

LOCATIONS

Dow operates manufacturing and R&D sites around the globe.

Couple Running

Dow Family Health

Helpful tools and resources that demonstrate Dow’s commitment to the health and wellbeing.

Milestones

Dow has a long history of appreciating the ocean as a precious resource – from the Company’s early work in extracting magnesium from seawater to desalination efforts in the 1960s. Today Dow is committed to finding science-based solutions to reduce plastic waste in oceans.

Artwork from 1940s ad showing pirates digging for treasure and promoting Dow’s valuable extraction of magnesium from seawater.

 

In 1941, Dow began “mining” a new silvery-white treasure from the sea: the desperately needed magnesium for building airplanes.

Vintage pirate treasure/magnesium ad – August 1941

More Valuable Than Pirate Treasure

H.H. Dow had dreamed of using the ocean as a mine since 1924, but it wasn’t until January 21, 1941, that it became a reality. That was the date the first ingot of magnesium made from seawater was poured in Freeport, Texas – and the first time man had successfully mined the ocean for metal. The new plant almost immediately began making a major contribution to the Allied War Effort and the production of lightweight aircraft. Later named DOWMETAL, Dow’s magnesium became an important product for everyday uses in automobiles, tools and toys.

Photo of A.P. Beutel, JFK and Leland Doan at the White House when JFK flipped a switch to remotely open the desalination plant in Freeport.

On June 21, 1961, President Kennedy flipped a switch in the White House and sent an impulse to Freeport, Texas, that started a stream of fresh water spouting from the sea. JFK is pictured with Dow President Leland Doan (right) and A.P. Beutel, head of the Texas Division.

With a Push of the Button

When Dow’s first desalination plant in Freeport, Texas, was activated in 1961, President John F. Kennedy said of the accomplishment, “This is a work which in many ways is more important than any other scientific enterprise in which this country is now engaged.” Since then, Dow has continued to produce elements that make desalination more efficient and affordable. With Dow’s technology, projects in water-scarce areas from the Middle East to California to Australia are now providing residents with affordable fresh drinking water from the sea. It’s been a tall glass to fill, but we’re doing it.

Stemming the Tide

To help stem the tide of waste than flows into the ocean, Dow has pledged $2.8 million toward collaborative efforts to reduce marine debris. The Company also became a founding member of the Trash Free Seas Alliance, a global initiative led by the Ocean Conservancy to develop land-based solutions to prevent waste from entering the ocean seas. As part of these efforts, Dow is participating in initiatives in Asia to track and stem the flow of waste. For example, Dow is working with the Indonesian government and other partners to help turn plastic waste into sustainable roads – paving the way to a more sustainable future.

Together, we’re transforming industries and improving everyday life.

After more than 200 years of innovation, DuPont is entering a new era of discovery. Our community of scientists, engineers, visionaries and all of our partners are working every day to turn possibilities into real world answers that help humanity thrive. Explore how DuPont is shaping a better world.

 

Our businesses

Electronics & Imaging

Industry-leading technologies to enable smaller, smarter and faster electronics, transform the sun’s rays into clean energy, and bring high-quality printing to packaging and textiles.

Transportation and Industrial

High-performance resins, adhesives, and lubricants to enable material systems solutions for aerospace, automotive, and other demanding environments.

Nutrition and Biosciences

Sustainable solutions for the food and health industries, and cleaner, bio-based solutions that support a growing circular economy.

Safety and Construction

Protective and performance solutions that keep first responders and industrial workers safe and operations running smoothly.

 

What our innovations enable today

Our technologies can be found in the majority of the world's smart devices, and provide crucial components for smart cities and autonomous vehicles.

 

DuPont supplies a third of the world's probiotics. We also focus on personalized nutrition, active pharmaceutical delivery, and health monitoring.

We develop protective fabrics, infection, and disease protection, and thermal and electrical protection for workforces around the globe.

We help provide clean water to communities where it is scarce, increase the energy efficiency of products, and reduce waste by maximizing resources.

Science & Innovation

Right now, DuPont is creating essential innovations to help you thrive—working side by side with industry leaders in safety, healthcare, nutrition, electronics, mobility and construction and more.

Science and engineering are the foundation of our essential innovations.

For over two hundred years, we’ve been innovating around you. And right now, DuPont is working side by side with industry leaders in safety, healthcare, nutrition, electronics, mobility and construction, creating technology-based materials, ingredients and solutions that help transform industries and everyday life.

“This is a great time of expansion in the science of the human microbiome. From an innovation perspective, this area offers quite a bit of diversity for consumers, ways to impart positive health outcomes, and technology that is central to each individual on the planet.”

Partners in Innovation

Our scientists and engineers work side by side with our partners to deliver innovative, successful solutions right now and for the future.

With the world’s population projected to increase from 7 to 9 billion by the year 2050, providing for the food, water, energy, and health care needs of people everywhere presents unprecedented challenges. Approximately 9,000 DuPont scientists and engineers collaborate with academics, companies, governments, and others to develop sustainable solutions to address these challenges.

 

Sustainability

For us, sustainability is much more than a goal to be achieved; it's an ongoing commitment.

 

 

Our purpose — to empower the world with the essential innovations to thrive — is our commitment to society. We will use our passion and proven expertise in science and innovation to create sustainable solutions for the complex challenges facing our world.

DuPont Sustainability Strategy

Our sustainability framework has three interconnected strategic focus areas: Innovations to Thrive, Sustainable Operations, and People and Well-being.

Strong performance across all three dimensions will enable us to boldly embrace our renewed purpose and maximize the impact DuPont science can bring to the world.

Key Sustainability Issues

We worked with customers, suppliers, NGOs and business partners to identify the sustainability issues that offer the greatest opportunity to deliver business value, increase resiliency across our value chains, and enable people and societies to thrive.

These key issues will be addressed through the three dimensions of our sustainability strategy: innovation, operational excellence, community impact and new collaborations with our business partners.

 

Our people

We're all about gathering great and diverse minds to solve global problems.

Built on a heritage of scientific innovation and driven by collaborative spirit, DuPont attracts the kind of people whose passions go beyond research and development. They want to change lives.

Community Impact

Our community outreach programs enable us to apply world-class science and the passion of 34,000+ employees to connect, engage, and make an impact on the communities in which we live and work.

Awards & Recognition

From awards for scientific achievements to workplace diversity, we're proud of our people and the many accolades they've earned.

DuPont employees work tirelessly and collaboratively to make a difference on the job, in their communities, and around the world. We're honored when organizations recognize us for our innovation, business practices, and people.