DuPont company: Aramid prices will rise in the coming period

Dupont Protection Technology, based in Richmond, Virginia, is an affiliate of DuPont, based in Wilmington, Delaware, and DuPont Protection Technology has restored fullKevlar® (Full Aramid®) production facilities to full capacity because DuPont · The demand for Kevlar (DuPont Aramid) products continues to increase. The company also continues to build a new factory in Cooper River, which will produce Kevlar AP and ** Kevlar XP. DuPont has invested more than US$500 million in this factory. The factory is expected to start production in 2012.

"We see more applications for current products and more advanced products, including automotive, aerospace, personal protection, and many industrial applications," said Dale Outhous, president of DuPont Protection Technologies. "As a result, the full-aramid production facility was once again operating at full capacity, and the construction of the new Cooper River plant is also accelerating."

The company reported that the demand led to additional investment by the company, including R&D investment, attracting more technical talents, building first-rate testing, modeling and simulation equipment; establishing new laboratories in India and Brazil; increasing the production capacity of aramid raw materials and promoting aramid And Nomex® products are utilization.