Second World War: 1941 to 1945 [ edit ]
DuPont ranked 15th among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. [11] As the inventor and manufacturer of nylon , DuPont helped produce the raw materials for parachutes , powder bags, [12] and tires . [13]
DuPont also played a major role in the Manhattan Project in 1943, designing, building and operating the Hanford plutonium producing plant in Hanford, Washington . In 1950 DuPont also agreed to build the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina as part of the effort to create a hydrogen bomb.