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DuPont sees nylon as core growth product.(Brief Article)

Plastics News, July, 2002 by Grace, Robert

Even as it restructures and spins off its nylon feedstock operations, DuPont Co. remains firmly committed to its market-leading nylon resin business as the ``flagship product line'' in its engineering polymers portfolio, according to the company's top polymers executive. Craig G. Naylor, group vice president for DuPont Performance Materials, told an international media gathering June 27 at the firm's 200th anniversary celebration in Wilmington that DuPont views its nylon products as core to its future polymers growth.

He also indicated that nylon demand is showing some improvement, while acknowledging that - despite DuPont's recent efforts to raise some nylon prices in a very targeted fashion - widespread U.S. price increases for the materials probably won't...

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