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DuPont DuPont is creating 40 new jobs at its Kevlar manufacturing plant at Maydown in Londonderry, having secured £2.5m of financial assistance from Invest NI. 18-Nov-2004 DuPont is to shed 4,000 of the 78,000 jobs in its worldwide chemicals business, which could affect some of its six sites in the UK. 14-Apr-2004 DuPont UK is to relocate its agricultural division and up to 100 jobs from Stevenage to Milton Keynes by the middle of next year, and its Hemel Hempstead branch will also move there. 28-Jan-2003 DuPont, the US chemicals company, is considering plans to invest in a number of unnamed high-technology companies in the UK, and is thought to be interested in spin-offs from Oxford and Cambridge universities. 16-Dec-2002 DuPont is to close its automotive paints factory at Minworth in the Midlands with the loss of 300 jobs, and production will be transferred to sites in Germany. 05-Jun-2000 DuPont is planning to invest £5.5m at its plastics factory in Cargenbridge, Dumfries, in order to increase flexibility in the polyester production section. 03-Mar-2000 DuPont has opened a £78m Lycra plant at Maydown in Londonderry, with the creation of 100 jobs. 13-Nov-1999 DuPont is to cut up to 100 of the 650 jobs at its Wilton polyester business, due to global overcapacity in the market. 08-Jun-1999 DuPont is to transfer its polyester operation at Wilton into a new joint venture company set up with Sabanci Holdings of Turkey. 19-Apr-1999 DuPont is to close the customer services division at its Maydown plant in Northern Ireland, and the operation will be transferred to Geneva. 16-Mar-1999 ICI is to restructure its paints division and cut 1,000 jobs, including about 500 in the UK, and it has also announced the collapse of a deal to sell its Tioxide division to DuPont and NL Industries. 05-Jan-1999 ICI is to stop producing solid reagent chemicals on Teesside and will sell the customer base to DuPont of the US for undisclosed terms. 11-Nov-1998 ICI is planning to sell its US tioxide operations to NL Industries for £150m, while ICI's former tioxide plant at Grimsby is being sold by DuPont to NL. 25-Jul-1998 ICI has extended the deadline for the completion of the sale of its Tioxide business to DuPont by six months to the end of December, due to an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission. 01-Jul-1998 The US Federal Trade Commission is understood to be seeking a third-party sale for at least one of Tioxide's titanium dioxide plants in Europe, before it will approve DuPont's $750m acquisition of Tioxide from ICI. 18-May-1998 ICI has completed the sale of its polymer and intermediates business in the UK and the US as well as its 70% stake in a PTA joint venture in Taiwan to DuPont for £1.4bn, as part of its strategy to exit the bulk chemicals market. 03-Jan-1998 DuPont is to expand its Lycra plant in Londonderry at a cost of £78m, creating 100 jobs. 14-Aug-1997 ICI has sold its titanium dioxide and polyester operations to DuPont of the US for £1.68bn in order to help fund its acquisition of Unilever's speciality chemicals business. 15-Jul-1997 More from the Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals sector Related pages: ALcontrol Laboratories Warwick International Inpharmatica Eclipse Scientific DSM DuPont website: www.dupont.com The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008