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| shareholder | country | % | source |
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year | business source |
| 2007 | Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, BASF, Dow and DuPont together sell 85 percent of the annual pesticide bought in the world, a market valued 30 billion US dollars. | IPS |
| 2006 | DuPont is the world's fifth-largest paintings and coatings manufacturer. | Les Echos |
| 2005 | Second-largest chemical group in the world. | Le Monde |
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| country | address & contact : production type incentive source |
 Bermuda | DuPont Electronics Microcircuits Industries, Ltd. : |
| Bermuda | DuPont Caribbean Trading Company Ltd. : |
| Bermuda | DuPont Agricultural Caribe Industries, Ltd. : |
| Bermuda | DuPont Electronics Microcircuits Industries, Ltd : |
| Bermuda | DuPont Agricultural Caribe Industries, Ltd : |
 Brazil | DuPont do Brasil S.A. : |
 Canada | DuPont Canada Inc.Streetsville , Mississauga, ON, L5M 2H3 & 905 - 821-3300 : |
 China | DuPont Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd : |
| China | DuPont Taiwan Ltd : |
| China | DuPont Textile Fibers, S.A : |
| China | DuPont Red Lion (Beijing) Coatings Co., Ltd : |
| China | DuPont China Limited : |
| China | DuPont Agricultural Chemicals Ltd., Shanghai : |
| China | DuPont (Shanghai) Sourcing Center Company, Ltd. : |
| China | DuPont (China) Research & Development Company Limited : |
| China | Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu (50%) : copolymères acétal |
 France | Estree St Denis, 60 : semences |
 India | E.I. DuPont India Private Limited : |
 Luxembourg | DuPont International (Luxembourg) SCA : |
 Mexico | Initiatives de Mexico, S.A. de C.V : |
| Mexico | Holding DP, S.A. de C.V. : |
| Mexico | Herberts Mexico S.A. de C.V. : |
| Mexico | DuPont Mexico S.A. de C.V : |
| Mexico | TAMAULIPAS TAMPICO CARRETERA TAMPICO MANTE KM 14.5 ALTAMIRA : Sistema de Informacion de la Industria Maquiladora |
 Poland | DuPont Poland Sp z.o.o : |
 Russia | OOO DuPont Russia LLC : |
 Singapore | DuPont Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd : |
 Turkey | DuPont Turkiye Kimyasal Urunler Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi : |
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| year name | photo position; compensation source |
| 2005Holliday, Charles O Jr |  Chief Executive Officer; salary: 2,88 million US$; stock-options: 0,09 million US$;
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2008 | -6500 | Internal restructuring: Dupont removes 4.2% of his manpower and eliminates 4000 and from his 15000 subcontractors. DuPont closes 10 plants and idles 100 factories worldwide.: | Bloomberg |
| 2006 | -1500 | Closure/Bankruptcy: DuPont closes ten herbicides et pesticides factories and focuses on genetically modified seeds.: United States of America | Les Echos |
| 2006 | -1500 | Closure/Bankruptcy: DuPont restructures its performance coatings business: closes four facilities in Europe, two in Spain, one in The Netherlands and another in Germany, in order to reduce annual costs by $165 million.: | AP |
| 2005 | -110 | Closure/Bankruptcy: DuPont Photomasks Inc. Closes photomask production facility in Kokomo, Indiana.: United States of America | ElectronicNews |
| 2004 | -3500 | Closure/Bankruptcy: Has announced the slimming of its workforce by 6% before the end of the year. This aggressive move is intented to remain competitive by reducing annual costs by 900 million USD.: World | Reuters |
| 2002 | -2000 | | Ottawa Business Journal |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
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| year | country : consequences source |
| 2007 | United States of America : Faulty pollution calculations will cost the DuPont Co. more than $250,000 in fines and penalties at its sulfuric acid recycling plant near Delaware City. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control officials said DuPont’s Red Lion acid plant, inside Valero's Delaware City Refinery, consistently released more nitrogen oxides than its permit allowed since mid-2006. Nitrogen oxide pollution helps to form smog and fine soot, environmental and health problems that Delaware has worked to reduce for years. | Delaware Online |
| 2007 | United States of America : Dupont and Dow AgroSciences developed the Herculex corn, resistant to the bee moth, whose importation for the human consumption is authorized in Europe. | Les Echos |
| 2005 | brand: Teflon : Breakdown chemicals from these coatings and related sources are now in the blood of 95 percent of Americans, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent the last several years trying to determine how they get there. DuPont has claimed that it does not know how the chemicals got there — and that are not aware that their product is responsible.
Today, however, Glenn Evers told in detail how his former employer hid for decades that it was polluting Americans' blood with a hyper-persistent chemical associated with the grease-resistant coatings on paper food packaging.
# A key document shows that in 1987, DuPont's Dr. Richard Goldbaum found that the company's marquee paper packaging coating chemical, Zonyl RP, could contaminate food at over three times the federal safety standard, while two effective alternatives contaminated food at half the federal maximum level.
# Evers describes how he and others copied on the results of that study knew they were "devastating." Evers approached Goldbaum, and then Goldbaum's superior, Gerald Culling, telling each of them that the results were an enormous problem and that it would be unethical to continue selling the product. Both men told Evers not to worry, and that they were "taking care of it."
# Evers realized with time that the company had not ordered a standard, internal process hazards review to find out why the chemical was above FDA approved levels. The company did not provide the information to customers, federal health officials and the public. DuPont did not recall the faulty product, did not stop its production, shelved the safer alternatives, and continued to make Zonyl RP — effectively producing for another 18 years the chemicals that would lead to the contamination of consumers' blood.
# Evers says that one of the reasons the company stuck with the problematic Zonyl RP was that it had adopted the practice of blending substandard batches in with better batches — and selling the blended versions to its industrial customers.
# Evers describes how DuPont's "Document Retention Program" required researchers to label all hard copy files to time their destruction. Company managers could audit employees to ensure compliance, and other staff went through employees' hard copy files to ensure documents were destroyed. A master computer program at the company deleted files from company hard drives after a certain period of time.
# Evers tells of how 3M, DuPont's competitor, rapidly abandoned the $150 million per year business using perfluorinated chemicals on paper food packaging when it realized in 2000 that the chemicals were producing byproducts accumulating in human blood and that those chemicals were harmful to developing lab animals. Despite what it knew from the 1987 results by Dr. Goldbaum and the persistence and toxicity of its own chemicals, DuPont moved quickly to sell its similar chemistry to 3M's former customers. EWG today sent the documents to the FDA's acting commissioner, as well as the inspector general of its parent Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), requesting the officials act on the new information. The group is also referring documents to relevant EPA officials. | Commondreams |
| 2005 | United States of America : DuPont allegedly hid studies showing the high health risks of Zonyl RP, a chemical used to line grease-resistant packaging for candy, pizza, microwave popcorn and hundreds of other foods. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and a former chemical engineer with DuPont claim that the company suppressed studies showing Zonyl RP could contaminate food at over three times the US federal safety standard. | Novis |
| 2005 | : Convoqué par une cour fédérale des Etats-Unis sur la toxicité possible de certains composants utilisés dans la fabrication des poêles en Teflon. | Les Echos |
| 2004 | : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a “Notice of Violation and Finding of Violation” for the company’s James River sulfuric acid plant. | |
| 2004 | United States of America : EPA a infligé une amende pour rétention d'informations sur la nocivité du téflon | Les Barons Marqués |
| 2004 | United States of America : La contamination de sources d'eau dans l'Ohio et en Virgine occidentale par l'acide PFOA, entre 1984 et 2002 | Les Barons Marqués |
| 2003 | : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a “Notice of Violation and Finding of Violation” for the company’s Fort Hill sulfuric acid plant in North Bend, Ohio. The EPA conducted a review of capital projects at the plant over the past twenty years. Based on its review, the EPA believes that two of the projects triggered a requirement to meet the New Source Performance Standards for sulfuric acid plants and that the company should have sought a permit under the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA). | |
| 2003 | United States of America : Procès intenté en 1993 pour "dégâts agricoles", DuPont condamné à 115 milions de dollars d'amende pour "fraude et destruction de preuves". | Le Monde Diplomatique |
| 2003 | United States of America : Amende de de 1,5 million de dollars pour rétention d'informations dans un procès l'opposant à des agriculteurs dont les récoltes avaient été endommagées par le Benlate DF | Le Monde Diplomatique |
| 1997 | United States of America : Cracks and radioactive water leakages of the nuclear thermal power station of Salem. | Le Monde Diplomatique |
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| year | country : consequences source |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | | buyback | source |
| 2008 |
| | 2 | | | billion US$ | Les Echos |
| 2007 |
| | 2,9 | | | billion US$ | Les Echos |
| 2007 |
The European Commission has fined Bayer AG, Denka Group, EI Du Pont de Nemours & Co, Dow Chemical Co, ENI and Tosoh Corp a total of 243.2 mln eur for participating in a cartel for chloroprene rubber between 1993 and 2002. The companies involved shared the market and fixed prices for chloroprene rubber, which is used for rubber components in a range of industrial products such as latex for the production of diving equipment, condoms, and the inner soles of shoes and as an adhesive. |
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| 2006 |
| 27,42 | 3,15 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2005 |
| 26,64 | 2,06 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2005 |
84 millions dollars fine for price fixing in half a dozen chemicals used in plastics, rubber and synthetic materials in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. |
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| 2004 |
| 27,34 | 1,78 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2002 |
| 24,01 | 1,1 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2001 |
| 24,73 | 4,34 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2000 |
| 28,27 | 2,31 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1998 |
| 24,77 | 4,48 | | | billion US$ | |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | assets | buyback | source |
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| year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
| 2004 | Prevent binding environmental regulations : Europen (The European Organization for Packaging and the Environment) : : European Commission  translate | Europen |
| 2001 | Access to foreign market (through MAI, WTO, GATS), prevent binding environmental regulations : USCIB (US Council For International Business) : : US Government translate | USCIB |
| 2000 | Investment protection and market access (to Mexico and Canada through NAFTA), to Latin America (through FTAA). : Business Roundtable : : US government, senate, congress translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
| 2000 | Lift the ban on bovine growth hormons, the moratorium on GMOs : EFPIA (European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations) : : European Commission translate | EFPIA |
| 2000 | Prevent binding regulation, co- or self-regulation instead. : American Chamber of Commerce's EU Committee : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 2000 | Market access (through WTO), cheaper energy (through energy liberalization in Europe); uniform rules to enable the patenting of plants and animals (through TRIPS); prevent advert legislation on chemicals, self-regulation instead; : CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 2000 | Prevent binding environmental regulations (environmental protection through economic growth, self-regulation and free trade) : WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) : : United Nations translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 1999 | Protection of Intellectual Property -TRIPS Agreement : Intellectual Property Committee : : WTO translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 1999 | Market access and investment protection (through WTO, GATS), avoid social and environmental rules : ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) : : WTO, GATS translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 1999 | Market admission for genetically modified organisms : EuropaBio : : European Commission translate | Corporate Europe Observatory |
| 1998 | Regulation favorable to company's interests : Contribution to Candidate's Political Action Committee : amount: 132 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
| 1997 | Legislation favorable to company's interests : Direct donation : amount: 152 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
| 1997 | Legislation favorable to company's interests : Direct donation : amount: 1735 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
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| year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
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| year | dubious practice : image source |
| 2007 | Disinformation: Emails made public in federal court in West Virginia reveal that Dupont misrepresented the findings of its Epidemiology Review Board, a team of independent experts who had looked at the health effects of the chemical C8 or perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The company has used PFOA for more than 50 years at its Washington Works plant south of Parkersburg, primarily in the manufacture of Teflon. Following the conclusion of a study of workers at the plant, the company announced “that there are no human health effects known to be caused by PFOA,” and said that the study had been reviewed by the independent panel. E-mails released as part of a lawsuit over PFOA pollution in drinking water near the plant show that members of the expert team called Dupont’s statements “somewhere between misleading and disingenuous,” and said that members of the team “were unanimous in believing that the results do show a health effect.”: | |
| 2007 | "DuPont pledged $1 million to the Global Crop Diversity Trust. This international fund is charged with securing long-term funding for the support of genebanks and crop diversity collections around the world. The Trust maintains the world's most critical germplasm for agricultural and industrial crops and supports struggling collections - especially those in developing countries. These collections are available to public and private plant breeders and farmers under the terms of an International Treaty on Plant genetic resources, adopted in 2001." Dupont genetically modified seeds and hybrid seeds are a major threat to biodiversity worldwide.: | |
| 2006 | Disinformation: Weinberg's strategy to help defuse the growing controversy over the health impacts of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a compound used to make Teflon: "DuPont must shape the debate at all levels" by facilitating the "publication of
papers and articles dispelling the alleged nexus between PFOA and teratogenicity as well as other claimed harm." Weinberg proposed to "develop 'blue ribbon panels' of thought leaders on issues related to PFOA" and to "coordinate the publishing of white papers on PFOA, junk science and the limits of medical monitoring.": public relations: W | PR Watch |
| 2002 | Arguable partnership: WWF: value: Nature protection; | CounterPunch |
| 2000 | Arguable partnership: Global Compact with the United Nations: value: Respects human, social and environmental laws; | ONU |
| 2000 | slogan: Better things for better living through chemistry.; | |
| 1999 | slogan: The miracles of science.; | Advertising Age |
| 1935 | slogan: Better Things for Better Living; | Advertising Age |
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