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DuPont Kevlar Provides Solutions, Not Just Fiber, Exec Says

By John Robinson

Tuesday, October 14th, 2014

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DuPont Kevlar Provides Solutions, Not Just Fiber, Exec Says

Kevlar Timeline Photo: DuPont

DuPont’s [DD] Kevlar is best known for providing the military with its troops with its life protecting ballistic fiber in body armor, but it’s moving into arenas from law enforcement to mining to extreme sports responding to market needs, a company official said. Kevlar is pushing boundaries and challenging the conventional to transform the ordinary to the extraordinary,” Norris Brooks, North American Regional Marketing Leader, Life Protection, part of DuPont Protection Technology, said. “We’re helping protect people and critical assets…

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