Expertise That Delivers Sustainable Business Success
DuPont Sustainable Solutions’ triple bottom line approach has produced results for clients worldwide, in industries from petroleum refining to mining. Our customized solutions help maximize workplace safety, operational efficiencies, environmental management, and process technologies.
Today, sustainable business success requires more than a robust bottom line. Companies face unprecedented societal, regulatory and market pressures. Our expert consultants collaborate with organizations to create custom solutions that improve human, environmental and financial performance — for a better triple bottom line.
Our targeted sustainable business solutions are focused on achieving results. We can help your organization lower injury rates and raise productivity, outpace benchmarks and exceed regulations, optimize capital returns, enhance process technologies, and reduce costs — and boost your return on investment.
For over 30 years, DSS has implemented successful engagements for businesses worldwide in the oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, mining, chemicals, transportation, construction and aerospace industries, among others.
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What solutions can our experts customize for your business?
Strategically manage energy and cut costs



Get more
from assets, materials
and workers
Enhance operational performance and process safety



Integrate sustainable
planning company-wide
Transfer Knowledge and Transform Performance


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Build Skills with award
winning employee training

Reduce Employee Incident and Injury Rates

Transform your work culture, operations and profits



Increase Reliability With Clean Technologies


Reduce Risks, Maximize
Returns and Minimize Waste
Improve Reliability and operability of alkylation technology


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Strategically manage energy and cut costs
Strategic and efficient energy management is key to business sustainability, and can deliver significant value. Our experts can customize the process and operational improvements that have worked for DuPont, as well as our proven cultural change methodologies, to help your organization get quick and lasting results. Our solutions help reduce energy costs, risks and carbon emissions, while strengthening operational excellence, profitability and competitive advantage.
Get more from assets, materials and workers
DuPont Asset Productivity consultants can help your organization optimize any aspect of your operating asset-base. Our integrated management processes and systems are designed to improve the cost productivity of your workforce, infrastructure and investments. Our expert consultants can customize our solutions to help you achieve new efficiency and effectiveness, improving your productivity, revenue, profits and operational excellence.
Christopher Smith
Global Practice Leader
Energy Efficiency ConsultingMENUEfficiency experts like Chris offer hands-on help
Fortune 500 firms turn to Chris and his industry-leading team for multi-million dollar energy and operations efficiency solutions. Chris delivers results for businesses in the oil and gas, mining and metals, chemical, petrochemical, and manufacturing industries, and beyond.
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Proven Energy Efficiency Methods and Results
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Get more from assets, materials and workers
DuPont Asset Productivity consultants can help your organization optimize any aspect of your operating asset-base. Our integrated management processes and systems are designed to improve the cost productivity of your workforce, infrastructure and investments. Our expert consultants can customize our solutions to help you achieve new efficiency and effectiveness, improving your productivity, revenue, profits and operational excellence.
Strategically manage energy and cut costs
Strategic and efficient energy management is key to business sustainability, and can deliver significant value. Our experts can customize the process and operational improvements that have worked for DuPont, as well as our proven cultural change methodologies, to help your organization get quick and lasting results. Our solutions help reduce energy costs, risks and carbon emissions, while strengthening operational excellence, profitability and competitive advantage.
Garrett Forsythe
Global Solutions Architect
Sustainable OperationsMENUGarrett helps clients boost yields and savings
As one of our operations management experts, Garrett helps clients capitalize on energy and asset efficiencies, shrinking their footprint and costs. He's already helped save millions for oil and gas clients, as well as within DuPont facilities.
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Can Energy Management Deliver Real Savings?
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Enhance operational performance and process safety
Our Operational Risk Management and Process Safety experts draw on over 40 years of DuPont experience in managing hazards at our own facilities. Our customized solutions can help prevent safety and environmental incidents, to preserve your business continuity, capitalization and right to operate, and – most importantly – to protect precious lives. In addition, our proven processes can boost cost efficiency, productivity and quality.
Reduce employee incident and injury rates
As a world safety leader, DuPont experts can help you implement organizational and individual change management processes that transform your safety culture. We help your organization foster a fully-integrated commitment to safety at all levels, with practices that strengthen leadership and reduce costs. Our solutions boost morale, performance and productivity, and most importantly, help send your workers home safely every night.
Srinivasan Ramabhadran
Global Leader
Process Safety & Risk ManagementMENUProcess safety improves with experts like Srini
With 8 years in operations management and 17 years in safety consulting, Srini and his team of experts have helped to transform process safety performance and reduce operational risk for an international range of industries and clients.
Read Srini's presentation
Assessing Industrial Process Performance
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Integrate sustainable planning company-wide
Our management experts can implement sustainable strategies within the framework of your business, turning your environmental efforts into broad-based cost and competitive advantages. We catalyze your organization to help you reduce costs, effectively compete, attract investments and strengthen engagement with key stakeholders. Our customized, integrated solutions quickly achieve measurable and lasting results.
Davide Vassallo
Global Practice Leader
DuPont Sustainable SolutionsMENUDavide's team helps make operations sustainable
Davide's group helps transform our clients' operations with solutions of unsurpassed breadth. We enhance environmental management, asset productivity and energy efficiency, and also offer emissions controls and other Clean Technologies for heavy industry.
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Maximize the Value of Your Sustainability Strategy
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Transfer knowledge and transform performance
Our experts offer a full range of integrated learning technologies and engaging content to help your workforce develop critical skills. From classroom training tools to e-learning solutions to tailored, on-site seminars, our blended learning solutions help you bring your organization closer to its employee-development goals. Our training experts help you assess, build, implement and extend your corporate training programs, as well as evaluate their effectiveness.
Rosi Torriani
Global Solutions Architect
MENURosi helps leaders learn in innovative ways
With over nine years of expertise, Rosi designs leadership development programs, implementing innovative customized learning and development solutions and managing multidisciplinary teams.
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Learning & Development Offering and Processes
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Build skills with award-winning online employee training
Our training experts can help your organization develop employee skills while reducing training costs and enhancing productivity. Available in more than 30 languages, our award-winning on-demand DuPont eLearning courseware incorporates advanced online training technologies and highly engaging content. Its flexible and customizable features also make it simple to manage your users, curriculum and training components from start to finish.
Sam Ponzo
Global Practice Leader
Learning & Development SolutionsMENULearning leaders like Sam improve employee performance
As Practice Leader, Learning & Development Solutions, Sam helps clients achieve sustained improvements in operational, safety and learning and development performance.
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Accelerating Skills Development: The DuPont Approach
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Reduce employee incident and injury rates
As a world safety leader, DuPont experts can help you implement organizational and individual change management processes that transform your safety culture. We help your organization foster a fully-integrated commitment to safety at all levels, with practices that strengthen leadership and reduce costs. Our solutions boost morale, performance and productivity, and most importantly, help send your workers home safely every night.
Improve contractor safety and turnarounds
Our Contractor Safety Management experts implement the proven practices developed in DuPont capital projects, turnarounds and supplemental labor projects worldwide. We help business owners and contractor firms reduce contractor-related injuries, labor disruptions and capital losses. We can customize a solution for your organization that helps keep your contracted projects safe, on-time and on-budget.
Bob Krzywicki
Global Practice Leader
Employee Safety ConsultingMENUBob and his team help protect people at work
In 30 years at DuPont, Bob has honed his expertise in safety, operations, business management, and capital projects. For over 11 years, he has custom-designed solutions with the DSS safety team to protect our clients' employees and contractors worldwide.
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Sustaining World Class Safety Performance
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Transform your work culture, operations and profits
Each of our expert consultants acts as a catalyst for business transformation. We can customize our management best practices to lead your workplace and work culture to become safer, more efficient and more environmentally sustainable. Our solutions facilitate change and enhance leadership and organizational development to deliver world-class workplace safety, footprint reduction, operations and capital effectiveness, and unsurpassed energy efficiency.
Simon Herriott
Global Managing Director
DuPont Sustainable SolutionsMENUSimon guides businesses, and our expert team
Simon draws on a 25-year tenure in business leadership, strategy and organizational development to direct DSS consulting teams. He helps organizations become safer, more efficient and more environmentally sustainable.
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The Savings of Safety
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Increase reliability and lower costs with clean technologies
MECS® is the global leader in sulfuric acid plant design and technology licensing for the phosphate fertilizer, oil refining, metal smelting, and numerous other industries. Our expert engineers apply the combined experience MECS® and DuPont gained in building over 1,000 acid plants worldwide. MECS® offers solutions for a wide range of markets, including power, ferrous metals, cement, titanium dioxide, coal gasification, and chemical processes.
Steve Puricelli
Vice President
MECSMENUSteve helps design improved sulfuric acid plants
An expert in sulfur recovery technologies, Steve is responsible for commercialization of new technologies and all technical aspects of sulfur management solutions. Technologies include SolvR regenerative scrubbers and DynaWave® wet scrubbers.
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Regenerative SO2 Capture: Recovering the Future
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Reduce risks, maximize returns and minimize waste
Our Sustainable Operations consultants can help you strategize and prioritize initiatives and resources to optimize your operations. By customizing proven sustainability, energy efficiency, asset productivity and capital effectiveness solutions for your operations, we help you reduce risks, maximize returns and minimize waste. Our experts have delivered multimillion-dollar savings for the oil and gas, utilities, mining, chemical and transportation industries.
Juan Aguiriano
President, Asia Pacific
DuPont Sustainable SolutionsMENUJuan helps businesses achieve sustainable operations
An expert in environmental management, capital effectiveness, and energy efficiency strategies, Juan helps organizations improve return on operations while reducing their environmental footprint.
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Achieving Sustainable Growth through Productivity Optimization
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Improve reliability and operability of alkylation technology
World-leading STRATCO® technology helps refiners safely produce cleaner-burning gasoline. We license sulfuric acid alkylation technology to oil refiners and customize solutions. Our technology experts can work with you to assess and determine the right solution for your refinery. We support you every step of the way, from proposal, technology evaluation, and design through equipment fabrication, startup, and training.
Randy Peterson
Process Technology Manager
Clean TechnologiesMENURandy improves all areas of the alkylation process
With over 24 years of refinery expertise, Randy specializes in all things alkylation – from startup design and unit revamp, to operator training, to test runs and troubleshooting.
FEATURED
DSS Collaboration with Suncor Energy
Learn how DuPont Sustainable Solutions helped Suncor Energy improve its environmental impact and safety management systems in the Oil Sands region of Canada. Whether its safety or the environment, getting people to be receptive to change is a process in which you have to engage with leadership, leadership has to be committed to change management, and it has to come from the top of the organization down.
INFORMATION & IDEAS
INFORMATION & IDEAS
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The World Class Safety Survey Results Infographic
The World Class Safety Survey Results Infographic provides presents data of a survey that DuPont Sustainable Solutions and Disney collaborated on about what “World Class” safety looks like. -
A Catalyst for Transformation
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions brochure on using real-world expertise in consulting services and technology licensing to help transform businesses -
The DSS Consulting Philosophy
Read about the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) consulting philosophy and learn more about transformational business solutions informed by years of practical experience. -
Clean Technologies Overview Brochure
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) Clean Technologies brochure to learn more about our focused technology-based solutions backed by real-world experience. -
DuPont Titanium Technologies Infographic
The DuPont Titanium Technologies Infographic is a case study about organizational integration at the corporate level, where DuPont Sustainable Solutions helped DTT reduce energy usage while increasing T2O2 production. -
DuPont Capital Projects
The DuPont Sustainable Solutions Infographic provides practical approaches to enable the success of capital projects. Learn about the DuPont methodology which highlights seven critical success factors; enabling success through building clarity, capability and trust; ownership and gatekeeping and a readiness to operate approach. -
A Case Study: Kazakhstan Mining Company Infographic
The Kazakhstan Mining Company Infographic is a case study about DuPont helping its client benchmark performance in all safety areas against international standards. -
Clean Technologies Best Practices Workshop
September 8-13, 2013, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC. DuPont hosts an annual Best Practices Workshop highlighting the STRATCO® Alkylation and MECS® Sulfuric Acid Regeneration Technologies. -
Hydrogen Safety: Sulfuric Acid Today
Feature on hydrogen safety in the sulfuric acid industry in Sulfuric Acid Today by James W. Dougherty, Process Engineer, Mosaic Fertilizer LLC. -
Sustainable Operations Part 2 Infographic
The DuPont journey on sustainable growth path went from safety to sustainability, based on our research on environmental footprint reproduction and the sustainable supply chain. -
DynaWave® Application: Cement Kilns
To get more information on improving removal efficiency and protection against corrosion in cement kilns, please read the full bulletin on DynaWave® wet gas scrubber applications. -
DynaWave® Reverse Jet Scrubber
Read the short brochure to learn more about the application, features and benefits of using our DynaWave® Reverse Jet Scrubbers.
CASE STUDIES
CASE STUDIES
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Dresser-Rand Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study on Dresser-Rand to see how our E-learning system helped them reduce training costs and lost work time. -
Edison Mission Group Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study on the Edison Mission Group to see how they generate injury-free success through world-class safety fundamentals. -
OMV Petrom Group Case Study
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PotashCorp—Aurora Facility Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study on the Aurora Facility to learn about the successful use of a combination of two distinct MECS® high-performance catalysts in a grass roots, large scale, new sulfur-burning acid plant in North America. -
ZeCor® Alloys Case Studies
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS)case study on how MECS® ZeCor® materials are intrinsic to CF Industries and JR Simplot plant success. -
DuPont Luxembourg Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study to see how DuPont Luxembourg achieved lasting sustainability in industrial production. -
Kazakhstan Mining Company Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study on Kazakhstan Mining Company to see how they set themselves up for international safety standards. -
STERIS Corporation Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study on STERIS Corporation to see how they are working today for a safer tomorrow. -
MTA Metro North Railroad Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study to see how safety culture change yields sustainable improvements at MTA Metro North Railroad. -
Los Angeles County MTA Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study on Los Angeles County MTA to see how they partnered for safety and savings. -
London Underground Case Study
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study on London Underground to see how visible management commitment is the key to managing risk. -
Norfolk Southern Case Study | DuPont Sustainable Solutions
Read the DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) case study on Northwest Pipe Company to see how an eight-time Harriman Gold Medal award winner finds there’s always room for safety improvement.
USES AND APPLICATIONS
USES AND APPLICATIONS
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BELCO® EDV® Wet Scrubbing Systems
Our patented EDV® Wet Gas Scrubbing Systems can achieve very high levels of control on pollutants, including, acid gases, fine particulate, and heavy metals. -
MECS® Brink® Packaged Mist Elimination Systems
Discover how our mist elimination systems meet emission regulations in fuming acid, organic, asphalt and metalworking mist and oil smoke applications. -
MECS® Non-Welded Open Channel Air Preheater (OCAP™)
The MECS® OCAP™ Non-Welded Heat Exchanger is a customized, modular air preheater. See how it delivers impressive energy efficiency and process savings. -
MECS® Sulfuric Acid MonPlex II™
Discover how a MECS® MonPlex II™ Fully-Welded Plate Heat Exchanger for sulfuric acid plants achieves unsurpassed process efficiency and cost savings. -
MECS-ThermoZ™ Fully-Welded Plate Heat Exchanger
See how this Fully-Welded Plate Heat Exchanger enables the greatest heat recovery and savings for the refinery, chemical, power and other industries.
DUPONT BRAND OFFERINGS
DUPONT BRAND OFFERINGS
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Sustainable Operations
See how our Sustainable Operations consulting experts customize results-driven solutions based on real-world experience, for rapid and enduring gains.

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