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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-Resistant Mattresses
Fire-Resistant Mattresses
Manufacturers use DuPont™ Kevlar® thread for seams and tape edges to help keep out flames. Learn more about the properties of this material.
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.
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.
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.
Marine Composites
Marine Composites
Kevlar® reinforcement helps reduce weight without compromising strength in marine, energy, and maritime vessel composites.
Military Body Armor
Military Body Armor
For 40 years, Americans serving in every branch of the Armed Forces have depended upon body armor and flak jackets made with Kevlar® fiber to help protect them from combat hazards.
Military Helmets
Military Helmets
Kevlar® fiber is a very important part of the military’s assets. By incorporating its inherent protective technology into military helmets, it has helped to save thousands of lives.
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.
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
Safety and Protection
Safety and Protection
Protecting people and the environment is a top priority for DuPont. DuPont collaborates with U.S. government agencies to help them develop materials, products and solutions for safety and protection.
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.
Strength Members for Oil & Gas
Strength Members for Oil & Gas
Learn how DuPont™ Kevlar® has continued to help innovate in strength-members for the oil and gas industry.
Tactical Vests – Law Enforcement
Tactical Vests – Law Enforcement
Tactical Vests — essential equipment officers can live with because police officers never know what type of weapons or perpetrators they may come up against, wearing the right tactical vest can mean the difference between walking away from a criminal assault and facing a potentially fatal or disabling injury
Tires & Rubber Goods
Tires & Rubber Goods
DuPont™ Kevlar® Engineered Elastomer helps provide enhanced strength, resistance, and traction to tires and other goods.
Vehicle Armor
Vehicle Armor
MRAP vehicles made using Kevlar® fibers help protect soldiers who are involved in IED and RPG attacks