Corporate Profile
DuPont Performance Polymers: helping customers create differentiated products From nylon for stockings and car parts to advanced materials for aerospace components, US materials innovator DuPont Performance Polymers (DPP) has rewritten history with advanced materials and application development.
Advanced materials: the building blocks of differentiated products Just 80 years ago, DuPont defined the high-performance plastics market with the invention of nylon. Today, it is used all over the world in a variety of automotive components, such as air ducts, engine covers, charged air coolers, transmission components and radiator end tanks. In electrical and electronic systems, Zytel nylon is widely used in enclosures, sockets, terminal blocks, circuit breakers, switches and relays. Over the years, DuPont has built on that strong foundation and offers the industry’s widest range of nylons, polyesters, elastomers and bio-based polymers. DuPont continues to focus on strengthening and growing its leading position in high-value advanced materials, as it is one of the three areas of strategic priority for the company. What to make of them? “As important as materials are in product development, the understanding of how to work with them to get the greatest performance and benefit is imperative,” said Yasuhiko Ohashi, Automotive Marketing Manager of DPP Asia Pacific. “To help our global customers get the most from DuPont materials, we have over the years, established a network of development experts with tools and networks to help support a customer from the concept all the way through to production.”
Woong Chung, Technical Service Manager of DPP Asia Pacific, says the company’s application development process supports customers’ product development cycle
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Application development: innovating with confidence Woong Chung, Technical Service Manager of DPP Asia Pacific, shared with PRA how DuPont is enabling its Advanced Materials Application Development. “Our application development process is how we support our customers’ product development cycle,” said Chung. “It can start with imagining a new product and engaging us in the design brief and material selection. It can include design support through CAD, CAE predictive engineering, and testing as we move through the product-development cycle. And we can also support customers during the manufacturing stage as we help improve production yield.” To summarise, Chung said: “What we do is to help customers make informed decisions as they imagine, design and develop a new application or improve an existing application.”