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DuPont Picks Site For Kevlar Plant

January 7, 2008 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 86, Issue 1

Temperature-resistant honeycomb structures made from Kevlar are used in the aircraft and shipbuilding industries.
Credit: DuPont

DuPont has picked its Cooper River, S.C., site to build a $500 million plant making Kevlar-brand p-aramid fiber. The plant is the centerpiece of a DuPont plan, announced last September, to expand global Kevlar capacity by 25%. It is expected to open in 2010 and employ 100 people. The Cooper River site employs about 60 people today in the production of Hytrel thermoplastic polyester.

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