DWDP

Dowdupont Inc

A temporary holding company born when two chemical giants, Dow Chemical and DuPont, merged in 2017, DowDuPont was built to be broken apart—and within two years split into three separate firms: materials maker Dow, specialty-products firm DuPont (maker of Kevlar, Tyvek, and Corian), and seed-and-pesticide company Corteva. DuPont traces its roots to 1802, when French chemist E.I. du Pont built a gunpowder mill on Delaware's Brandywine River. As a safety measure, he placed his own family home directly in the mill's blast zone.