Effective July 1, DuPont Dow Elastomers, the joint venture company between DuPont and Dow Chemical, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of DuPont and will be called DuPont Performance Elastomers.
Effective July 1, DuPont Dow Elastomers, the joint venture company between DuPont and Dow Chemical, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of DuPont and will be called DuPont Performance Elastomers. DuPont Dow's Viton fluoroelastomers, Viton FreeFlow, Kalrez perfluoroelastomer parts, Neoprene neoprene: see rubber.
neoprene
Any of a class of elastomers (rubberlike synthetic organic compounds of high molecular weight) made by polymerization of the monomer 2-chloro-1,3-butadiene and vulcanized (cross-linked, like rubber), by sulfur, synthetic rubber synthetic rubber: see rubber. , Hypalon chlorosulfonated polyethylene polyethylene (pŏl'ēĕth`əlēn), widely used plastic. It is a polymer of ethylene, CH2=CH2, having the formula (-CH2-CH2-)n and Vertex seal technology businesses will remain with the subsidiary.
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