Astral Diagnostics, Inc

Located in Wilmington, Del, Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients is a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., a publicly traded company. It is one of the global leaders in the production of products that manage the physical properties of aqueous and non-aqueous systems. The company s products perform in a variety of applications providing functional properties, including thickening and rheology control, water retention, adhesive strength, binding power, film formation, suspending and emulsifying action. It offers solutions to interior and exterior water-based paint manufacturers, construction material producers, paper mills, makers of personal care/household products, oil field service, pharmaceutical and food companies. Most of Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients products are derived from renewable natural raw materials.

DuPont, established in 1802 as an explosives company, offers a wide range of products for markets, including food and nutrition, health care, apparel, safety and security, construction, electronics, and transportation. The company s agriculture and nutrition segment offers hybrid seed corn and soybean seed, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and soy protein. Its coatings and color technologies segment provides automotive finishes, industrial coatings and white pigments. The firm s electronic and communication technologies segment offers fluorochemicals, fluoropolymers, photopolymers and electronic materials. The performance materials segment provides engineering polymers, packaging and industrial polymers, films, and elastomers. The safety and protection segment provides specialty and industrial chemicals, nonwovens, aramids, and solid surfaces. Charles O. Holliday Jr. has been the chief executive officer of EI du Pont de Nemours for more than eight years. He has been with the diversified chemical company for over 36 years. Holliday earned a BSIE from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. DuPont is a Fortune 500 company, and is headquartered in Wilmington, Del. It operates more than 40 research and development and customer service laboratories in the United States, and over 35 laboratories in other countries.