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BRIGHTON, Colo. ‒ Bulletproof glass. Security cameras. Panic buttons. As the elected county clerk and recorder in a suburb of Denver, Josh Zygielbaum's days are normally filled with marriages, vehicle ...

Twaron and Kevlar are brand names for aramid fibers, which are strong as steel yet much lighter. They are used to make bulletproof vests, strong ropes, and high-performance car tires, for example.

Thousands of police officers and soldiers who were saved by a bulletproof vest owe their lives to a Delaware woman named Stephanie Kwolek. Kwolek, who died Wednesday, was a DuPont Co. chemist who in ...

During SHOT Show in Las Vegas this past January, Point Blank Enterprises debuted its newest soft body armor, the Elite EXO. The manufacturer teamed up with DuPont, working for the past two years to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kolon Industries Inc has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal DuPont Co's trade secrets, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday, bringing to a close a long-running ...