It's been 40 years since a Dupont scientist discovered Kevlar, which researchers first thought might be good for tires. Now it's synonymous with bulletproof vests. The biggest factory is in ...

Names like Harland and Wolff and Shorts are synonymous with industry in Belfast. But in Northern Ireland’s second city it is the DuPont factory which has been employing families for generations ...

DuPont Co. is moving production of Kevlar from a factory in South Carolina to its Spruance plant on Jefferson Davis Highway in South Richmond, where the company already does most ...

Stephanie Kwolek prepares a polymerization experiment at DuPont's Pioneering Research Lab in 1967. Kwolek, who died Wednesday, made the breakthrough discovery that led to the invention of Kevlar.

WILMINGTON, Del. (Aug. 13)—DuPont Co., citing high demand growth for aramid fiber, will invest $50 million in the coming 12-18 months to expand Kevlar para-aramid fiber capacity at its Richmond, Va., ...

But even before it opened, the factory felt the blowback of global forces. ... Bullish on Kevlar, DuPont announced its next big investment for its Lowcountry property in 2007.

DuPont is closing its Kevlar plant near Goose Creek less than six years after opening the $500 million factory along the Cooper River, citing declining demand for the product used ...

DuPont’s Spruance plant makes rolls of Kevlar, which is used in bullet-resistant vests and other protective apparel. The plant also produces Nomex and Tyvek. 2007, TIMES-DISPATCH ...

Technology-based materials producer DuPont de Nemours Inc. will invest $75 million to expand and modernize its Kevlar manufacturing plant in Chesterfield County over the next several years, Gov. Ralph ...

A U.S. court has awarded $920.3 million in damages to Wilmington, Delaware-based chemical giant DuPont (NYSE:DD) after ruling that South Korea's Kolon Industries Inc. had violated trade secrets ...

DuPont factory: 50 years in the making. It’s an industrial success built through loyal staff and family values. Clare Weir talks to the key players as DuPont marks a golden milestone in Londonderry ...

Stephanie Kwolek, a DuPont chemist who invented the synthetic fibers used in Kevlar body armor, has died at the age of 90, her colleagues said Friday. A fellow chemist told The Associated Press that ...