DuPont Names Jeroen Bloemhard Vice President & General Manager for Water Solutions Business Unit

Press Release | March 22, 2024
Press Release
DuPont Names Jeroen Bloemhard Vice President & General Manager for Water Solutions Business Unit
 
 
 

WILMINGTON, Del., March 22, 2024 – DuPont has appointed Jeroen Bloemhard as Global Vice President and General Manager, DuPont Water Solutions, the corporation’s business unit focused on purification and specialty-separation technologies.

“Water Solutions is a key market pillar of DuPont’s innovation and growth strategy, aligned to helping our customers address the domestic and industrial water needs of a growing global population,” said Leland Weaver, President Water & Protection for DuPont. “With Jeroen’s proven and purpose-driven leadership and his team’s unique expertise in water, I am confident that DuPont will continue to advance the most sustainable water technologies to deliver customer, business, and societal value.”

Bloemhard comes to this role with nearly 30 years of business and commercial leadership experience in multi-industrial companies, including DuPont, Celanese, and Dow Corning. He has led businesses across the world and has resided in Asia, Europe and North America.

“I’m proud and excited to lead DuPont Water Solutions—a team that continues to advance more sustainable purification, conservation and reuse of water and other valuable resources for customers around the world,” said Bloemhard. “I look forward to working with my new colleagues, customers, and collaborators to help contribute solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges—increasing our collective opportunity to access clean water and sanitation, advance industrial water reuse, produce healthier foods and medicines, and uncover cleaner sources of energy.”

DuPont offers market-leading technologies to address a variety of challenges faced by water treatment municipalities, seawater desalination plants, and industrial water users, including the microelectronics industry, through a broad portfolio of membranes, resins and complete systems. The team is also innovating solutions that can balance the world’s growing water and energy demands, with products that help maximize the availability of electricity, lithium and green hydrogen. The business also offers a broad range of solutions supporting the life sciences industry, from complicated separations for drug development and crop-to-table processing, to enabling protein-rich diets and innovative healthcare solutions.

Technologies include reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, ion exchange resins (IEX), ultrafiltration (UF), electrodeionization (EDI), nanofiltration (NF), membrane bioreactor systems (MBR), membrane aerated biofilm reactors (MABR), and closed-circuit reverse osmosis (CCRO) systems.

In 2023, DuPont Water Solutions was named Water Technology Company of the Year, presented at the Global Water Awards, for innovating solutions to sustainably address the hardest global water challenges.

 

About DuPont Water & Protection

DuPont Water and Protection is a global leader in creating water, shelter and safety solutions for a more sustainable world; enabling its customers to win through unique capabilities, global scale and iconic brands including Kevlar®, Nomex®, Tyvek®, Corian® Design, GreatStuff™, Styrofoam™, and FilmTec™.

 

About DuPont

DuPont (NYSE:DD) is a global innovation leader with technology-based materials and solutions that help transform industries and everyday life. Our employees apply diverse science and expertise to help customers advance their best ideas and deliver essential innovations in key markets including electronics, transportation, construction, water, healthcare and worker safety. More information about the company, its businesses and solutions can be found at www.dupont.com. Investors can access information included on the Investor Relations section of the website at investors.dupont.com.