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Adhesives, Sealants, & Coatings
Adhesives, Sealants, & Coatings
In adhesive, sealant, coating, and fiber-reinforced plastic applications, DuPont™ Kevlar® helps provide better viscosity control and lower costs. Learn how the inherent strength and heat resistance of Kevlar® provides performance that cannot be worn or aged away.
Aerospace, Marine, & Rail
Aerospace, Marine, & Rail
DuPont™ Kevlar® and DuPont™ Nomex® helps manufacturers in aerospace, marine, and rail industries to build aircraft, ships, and rail carriages. Learn how the remarkable performance characteristics of Kevlar® and Nomex® can help to increase fuel efficiency – and decrease operating and maintenance costs.
Air Cargo Covers for Pharmaceuticals
Air Cargo Covers for Pharmaceuticals
Air Cargo Covers are specifically engineered to address the threat of cold chain breaks during air transit and have been validated in a wide variety of applications by pharmaceutical manufacturers worldwide
Automotive Components Reinforcements
Automotive Components Reinforcements
Kevlar® and Nomex® brand fibers help improve the safety, performance, and durability of automotive components for a wide variety of vehicles, from passenger cars and light trucks to professional racecars. Learn how Kevlar® and Nomex® help provide inherent strength in automotive components, inside and out.
Automotive Hoses & Belts Reinforcements
Automotive Hoses & Belts Reinforcements
DuPont™ Kevlar® brand fiber helps improve the safety, performance, and durability of automotive components such as automotive hoses and automotive belts for a wide variety of vehicles, from passenger cars and trucks to professional racecars.
Ballistic Helmets
Ballistic Helmets
As a superior material for ballistic military and police helmets, DuPont™ Kevlar® fibre has helped to save thousands of lives around the world.
Consumer Products made with Kevlar®
Consumer Products made with Kevlar®
DuPont™ Kevlar® helps make a wide variety of Consumer Products light weight and Strong. Kevlar® is a product unique to DuPont invented by DuPont and is a brand and trademark owned by DuPont. Check here to be sure the products with Kevlar® you are purchasing are authentic.
Conveyor Belts for Mining
Conveyor Belts for Mining
DuPont™ Kevlar® helps create cost saving solutions for conveyor belts in the mining industry
DuPont™ Sorona® for Stretch Denim
DuPont™ Sorona® for Stretch Denim
With DuPont™ Sorona®, denim and jean manufacturers can deliver stretch denim fabric comfort that lasts all day long. With no sagging or bagging, people will gladly wear denim with Sorona® every day.
Electrical Insulation
Electrical Insulation
In electrical insulation applications, Nomex® products helps provide durability, reliability, and the dielectric properties needed to help keep motors, generators, and transformers running smoothly, even under conditions of extreme heat.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) suits are designed using inherent flame-resistant inner and outer layers made of Nomex® fibre and flexible, semi-rigid and rigid ballistic protective elements made of Kevlar® fibre. The suits are tailored for protection and mobility, dexterity and comfort for each body part.
Fiber Optics
Fiber Optics
Kevlar® provides high tensile strength, helping to safeguard fiber optic cables against mechanical stresses to ensure optimal performance. Learn how the inherent dielectric properties, light weight, small diameter, and flexibility of Kevlar® meet requirements for a wide variety of fiber optic cable applications.
Fire Protection
Fire Protection
As leaders in flame resistant technology, DuPont scientists have engineered revolutionary materials like Nomex® that help provide industrial workers with protection from intense heat and flames.
Firefighter Gear & Turnout Gear
Firefighter Gear & Turnout Gear
For a trusted source of protection, firefighters look for turnout gear made of Nomex® and Kevlar® fibers.
Flame Resistant Clothing
Flame Resistant Clothing
As leader in flame-resistant protection technology, DuPont helps protect industrial workers, firefighters, police officers and military forces against fire hazards.
Furniture Covers
Furniture Covers
Outdoor furniture covers made of DuPont™ Tyvek® are lightweight, breathable, and weather resistant.
Heat Shields & Insulation Shields
Heat Shields & Insulation Shields
Learn how the inherent thermal resistance of DuPont™ Nomex® makes it ideal for high-temperature automotive applications, including heat shields and other under-the-hood applications.
Honeycomb Composites — Aerospace & Marine
Honeycomb Composites — Aerospace & Marine
The excellent strength-to-weight ratio of DuPont™ Nomex® and DuPont™ Kevlar® brings performance and value to industries such as mass transportation, construction, and marine shipping.
Honeycomb Composites — Aerospace & Marine
Honeycomb Composites — Aerospace & Marine
The excellent strength-to-weight ratio of DuPont™ Nomex® and DuPont™ Kevlar® brings performance and value to industries such as mass transportation, construction, and marine shipping.
Hot Gas Filtration
Hot Gas Filtration
DuPont™ Nomex®, an inherently thermal-resistant fiber, can withstand extreme stress. Learn how this innovative fiber provides an ideal solution for high-temperature hot gas filtration applications.
Industrial Safety
Industrial Safety
Our scientists and technicians have created and rigorously tested our leading brands used in industrial protective clothing, including Nomex®, Tychem®, Tyvek® and Kevlar®. Learn more about their roles in industrial safety and worker protection.
Industrial Vehicle Covers
Industrial Vehicle Covers
DuPont™ Tyvek® industrial vehicle covers help protect vehicles from plant to dealership.
Kevlar® for stronger Brake Pads, Clutches and Gaskets
Kevlar® for stronger Brake Pads, Clutches and Gaskets
DuPont™ Kevlar® helps provide strength, endurance, and stability to enhance automotive power train and body components such as brake pads, clutches and gaskets.
Military Body Armour
Military Body Armour
For 40 years, armed forces personnel have relied on military body armour and flak jackets made of DuPont™ Kevlar® fibre to help protect them from combat hazards.
Military Thermal Protection
Military Thermal Protection
Military clothing with thermal protection made with Nomex® fiber helps safeguard our warfighters against the life-and-death challenges they face.
Oil and Gas Personal Protective Equipment
Oil and Gas Personal Protective Equipment
Learn what type of hazards workers face in the oil and gas industry and how DuPont™ Tyvek®, DuPont™ Tychem® and DuPont™ Nomex® brands help offer protection against.
Personal Electronics
Personal Electronics
Manufacturers of personal electronics, such as cellular phones, handheld devices, notebook computers, are turning to DuPont™ Kevlar® to help make their products more portable and durable.
Racing Protection with DuPont™ Nomex®
Racing Protection with DuPont™ Nomex®
Racing suits made of Nomex® fiber play a pivotal role in helping to provide the valuable seconds racing professionals need to escape fires that result from both on-track collisions and pit accidents. See why 95% of racing professionals around the world wear Nomex®.
Reebok® Crossfit® Gear made with Kevlar®
Reebok® Crossfit® Gear made with Kevlar®
Reebok has partnered with DuPont to develop a line of apparel with emphasis on the specific needs of the CrossFit® athlete
Residential Vehicle Covers
Residential Vehicle Covers
Residential vehicle covers made of DuPont™ Tyvek® offer superior protection for private use.
Ropes & Cables
Ropes & Cables
Kevlar® ropes and cables help deliver performance and value to customers in the fine gauge cable industry by helping to provide excellent robustness, fatigue resistance, shrinkage, and durability. From land to sea to space, learn how Kevlar® brand fiber has helped strengthen ropes and cables to stand up to temperature extremes and harsh environments.
RV Covers
RV Covers
RV covers made of DuPont™ Tyvek® keep recreational vehicles clean and safe from the elements
Safe and durable protective motorcycle apparel
Safe and durable protective motorcycle apparel
In protective motorcycle apparel, DuPont™ Kevlar® fibers reinforce gloves, jackets and pants to help improve tear and abrasion resistance
Sorona® for Automotive Carpet
Sorona® for Automotive Carpet
When the design objective is durable, beautiful, fast-drying, stain-resistant automotive carpet, the more sustainable alternative to petroleum-based products is DuPont™ Sorona®. High-performance Sorona® fiber contains 37% renewably-sourced, plant-based content by weight and consumes less non-renewable energy during manufacture than nylon 6.
Sorona® for Automotive Fabric
Sorona® for Automotive Fabric
DuPont™ Sorona® has stain resistance engineered directly into the fiber so automotive fabric resists staining for the life of the textile. Durable, quick-drying, easy-to-clean, high-performance Sorona® also contains 37% renewably-sourced material by weight.
Sorona® for Casual Wear
Sorona® for Casual Wear
DuPont™ Sorona® enhances casual wear fabrics when blended with both man-made fibers like polyester and natural textiles like cotton, wool, and linen.
Sorona® for Performance Fabrics
Sorona® for Performance Fabrics
Ideal for use in performance fabrics for active outdoor apparel, Sorona® provides comfort stretch and good color fastness to maintain bright, bold colors.
Sorona® for Uniform Fabric
Sorona® for Uniform Fabric
DuPont™ Sorona® fiber enhances wool and cotton, for a soft uniform fabric that dries quickly, stretches comfortably, and recovers its shape beautifully. And Sorona® is 37% renewably sourced, which means workwear manufacturers now have a renewable uniform fabric option.
Sorona® Snaps Coat Fabric Into Shape
Sorona® Snaps Coat Fabric Into Shape
DuPont™ Sorona® enhances casual wear fabrics when blended with both man-made fibers like polyester and natural textiles like cotton, wool, and linen.
Sorona® Soft Fabric for Intimate Apparel
Sorona® Soft Fabric for Intimate Apparel
Soft fabric for underwear, sleepwear, and other intimate apparel created with Sorona® features enhanced softness, stretchability, and color fastness.
Sporting Goods Apparel & Accessories
Sporting Goods Apparel & Accessories
The quest for lighter, stronger, and safer sporting goods has made Kevlar® a popular choice for both equipment manufacturers and consumers. Learn how the same properties and performance attributes that have proven so effective in industrial and life-protection applications also appeal to athletes, outdoors enthusiasts and anyone else looking for better performance in sports products.
Tactical Vests – Law Enforcement
Tactical Vests – Law Enforcement
DuPont™ Kevlar® brand fiber helps tactical vests protect officers and save lives.
Tires & Rubber Goods
Tires & Rubber Goods
DuPont™ Kevlar® Engineered Elastomer helps provide enhanced strength, resistance, and traction to tires and other goods.
Turnout Gear – The First Line of Defence
Turnout Gear – The First Line of Defence
Firefighters around the world choose garments made of Nomex® for protection, durability, cost efficiency and comfort from the inside out.
Tyvek® Cargo Covers for Perishables
Tyvek® Cargo Covers for Perishables
Tyvek® Cargo Covers for Fumigation offers users and their customers valuable benefits, including higher yields, higher quality and shelf life, and reduced cost.
Tyvek® Protective Covers
Tyvek® Protective Covers
DuPont™ Tyvek® protective covers offer superior protection in a variety of applications from agriculture to packaging to military.
Vehicle Armour
Vehicle Armour
While synonymous with personal body armour, DuPont™ Kevlar® fibre is found in many applications for vehicle armour protection. MRAP vehicles made using Kevlar® fibres help protect soldiers who are involved in IED and RPG attacks.