DuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers announce new Kalrez manufacturing facility
DuPont Kalrez is a specialized engineered material used in a variety of sealing applications.
DuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers (T&AP), a Wilmington, Del.-based business unit of DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, purchased a new facility in Newark, Del., to manufacture DuPont Kalrez, a specialized engineered material used in a variety of sealing applications.
The facility is twice the size of the current plant in Newark, and will be outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment and advanced manufacturing capabilities. Over the next two years, DuPont T&AP plans to invest approximately $45 million to increase manufacturing capacity, and then transition production from the current site to the new facility.