DowDuPont Overview
Company Headquarters: Midland, US
Founded: 1883
Workforce: ~98,000
Company Working: DowDuPont is a holding company that develops agricultural products, specialty materials, and chemicals. It operates through 534 manufacturing sites and the agriculture, performance materials and coatings, industrial intermediates and infrastructure, packaging and specialty plastics, electronics and imaging, nutrition and biosciences, transportation and advanced polymers, and safety and construction segments. DowDuPont planned to create three independent companies called Corteva Agriscience, Dow, and New DuPont, where Covetra Agriscience will represent the agriculture division of the company, while Dow will represent the materials science division, and New DuPont the specialty products division. In April 2019, DowDuPont completed separation of materials science division through the spin-off of Dow Inc and is likely to complete the separation of its agriculture division in June 2019.
Strategy
DuPont is hunting for innovative technologies and materials for better performance to enable and develop outstanding products and solutions according to the need of the consumers whether it is a small, more complicated, powerful, and more reliable product. The company is the leader in terms of technology and serves the semiconductor, display, flexographic printing, digital, circuit board, healthcare, industrial, aerospace, and transportation sectors. Regularly, DuPont is solving the critical challenges associated with their customers. Moreover, the company also aims on developing various solutions in different segments. Besides that, DuPont is also focusing on heavy investments in research and development to gain an upper hand among the rivalries operating in the global market. The company also aims the sourcing pioneer technologies to earn an advantage among the competitors and hold a major share of the global market. Besides that, DuPont also focuses on sustainability, and the key objective of the company is to inspire the world to thrive through key advancements.
