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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Optical Materials
Optical Materials
DuPont™ Optical Materials can provide reflectance as high as 98% across the visible spectrum.
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
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.
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
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.
Tires & Rubber Goods
Tires & Rubber Goods
DuPont™ Kevlar® Engineered Elastomer helps provide enhanced strength, resistance, and traction to tires and other goods.
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® Cargo Covers for Pharmaceuticals
Tyvek® Cargo Covers for Pharmaceuticals
Tyvek® 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