In its fluoropolymer business, the Company has reduced PFOA content by 97 percent in aqueous fluoropolymer dispersion (AFD) products using new DuPont Echelon™ technology.  This technology is used for durable coatings in applications such as electronics, industrial, architectural and consumer products. Currently, customers representing over 90 percent of the sales volume for AFD products have been qualified to use the newly formulated Echelon™ technology. 

More recently, the fluoropolymer business has invented technology that should enable complete elimination of PFOA use in fluoropolymer production.  Commercial scale quantities of some fluoropolymer products have been made without PFOA, and customers were notified in December 2007 that these products will be available for testing in their processes in 2008.  This is an important milestone towards meeting the corporate commitment to eliminate the use of PFOA no later than 2015.  With regard to potential fluoropolymer break down to PFOA, fluoropolymers are very stable and have not been shown to break down to PFOA in the environment.  Furthermore, the stability of these polymers is such that the potential for in-use breakdown is negligible.

The following is a letter DuPont sent to the company's fluoropolymer customers regarding our products:
http://www2.dupont.com/PFOA2/en_US/assets/downloads/pdf/CustomerLetter_20071112.pdf

In February 2007, the fluorotelomer business announced that it had successfully commercialized a new, patented manufacturing process that removes greater than 97 percent of trace levels of PFOA, its homologues and direct precursors from DuPont fluorotelomer products.   This achievement meets key elements of the US EPA’s voluntary 2010/15 PFOA Stewardship Program. The new LX Platform™ Products were made available to customers beginning in the fourth quarter of 2006. These products are used for surface protection for leather, stone and tile, and in some cases, for paper packaging, fluorosurfactants and coatings.  Essentially all of the finished products (greater than 95 percent) have been converted to LX Platform™ Products. 

The following is a link to the DuPont press release on LX Platform™ Products:
http://www2.dupont.com/PFOA2/en_US/assets/downloads/pdf/FINAL%20FINAL%20-%20LX%20trade%20news%20release%202.5.07.pdf

In March 2008, the fluorotelomer business announced new Capstone™ products for repellents and surfactants. The products are based on short-chain chemistry and offer equal or better performance than products previously supplied while reducing the company's environmental footprint. For fluorotelomer products, the switch to a short-chain chemistry product line is based on molecules that cannot breakdown to PFOA in the environment. 

The following is a link to the DuPont press release on Capstone™ products:
http://www2.dupont.com/Capstone/en_US/assets/downloads/final_press_release_english_3_20_2008.pdf