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Overview

The Corpus Christi plant on Texas's Gulf Coast produces refrigerants, aerosol propellants, foam-blowing agents, fire extinguishants and cleaning solvents. DuPont opened the plant in December 1974 to make chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-based products like Freon® refrigerants. In 1990, after constructing the world's first and largest alternative-CFC facility at its Corpus Christi site, DuPont started production of its new line of ozone-safe Suva® refrigerants, aimed initially at the automobile air conditioner market. By 1992 Corpus Christi was producing five different Suva® products as well as ozone-safe Formacel® , a foam expansion agent used in construction materials and packaging, and Dymel® , an aerosol propellant. In 1995 DuPont began building a second Dymel® facility at Corpus Christi, and added Vertrel® cleaning solvents and a pharmaceutical-grade inhaler propellant to the plant's products. In 1999 Corpus Christi started producing Zyron® fluorocarbon gasses for cleaning applications in the electronics industry. For over 25 years Corpus Christi has successfully adapted its manufacturing capability in order to meet society's ongoing needs under changing conditions.

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