Singapore – July 18, 2008 – DuPont Engineering Polymers today announced that production for its high-growth DuPont™ Vespel® parts and shapes has begun at its newest facility in Singapore.

New Singapore plant provides added capacity to help meet growing regional and global demand for DuPont Vespel parts and shapes.

“DuPont invested in this expanded capacity in order to support our customers’ growth and market needs,” said Alexa Dembek, global business director for Vespel®. “The new facility joins four other Vespel® part plants which are strategically located globally so that we can ensure rapid delivery of high-quality products anywhere in the world. This new state-of-the-art facility underscores the Vespel® business’s ability to meet global market needs by delivering big science, part by part, faster than ever before,” she added. The plant incorporates the latest advances in process technology and lean manufacturing techniques.

Other production facilities for Vespel® parts and shapes are located in Utsunomiya, Japan; Mechelen, Belgium; and Newark, Del., and Valley View, Ohio, in the United States. Polyimide resin for Vespel® parts is made at a plant in Circleville, Ohio.

“The measures we have taken to ensure the Singapore plant’s manufacturing excellence support our customers by ensuring that parts meet or exceed their expectations. The new facility draws on the best practices employed at other Vespel® plants. Its process technicians received intensive training at Vespel® production facilities in the United States and Japan as well as on-site in Singapore for a year prior to the plant opening. In addition, manufacturing, quality and supply chain management includes a cadre of experienced people from other DuPont facilities in Asia.

“Innovation is another important way in which we support our customers’ growth and success in meeting increasingly demanding market requirements,” said Dembek. A recent example involved a global supplier of testing equipment in Japan. The Vespel® business developed a new material grade and a design improvement in the equipment’s sealing rings. The changes reduced the sensitivity of test results to temperature, reduced oil leakage and improved reliability.

For more than 40 years, Vespel® parts have been meeting needs of automotive, aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing and diverse other industries for exceptional performance. A few of the many kinds of Vespel® parts include thrust washers for car and truck transmissions, tube clamps for jet engines and wafer carriers for semiconductor manufacturing. Key performance attributes include various combinations of high-temperature resistance, low wear, low friction, chemical resistance, high purity, low outgassing, precision, toughness and structural strength. For more information, please visit http://vespel.dupont.com.

About DuPont
DuPont Engineering Polymers manufactures and sells Zytel® nylon and Zytel® HTN PPA, Crastin® PBT, Rynite® PET, Delrin® acetal, Hytrel® TPC-ET, DuPont™ ETPV engineering thermoplastic vulcanizates, Minlon® mineral reinforced nylon, Thermx® PCT, Tynex® filaments, Vespel® parts and shapes, Zenite® LCP, to global aerospace, appliance, automotive, consumer, electrical, electronic, industrial, sporting goods and other diversified industries.

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