• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I would wager that one of the companies is going to hold all of their products that are liabilities that they expect huge lawsuits from.

    Monsanto has done the same in the past.

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      7 months ago

      First thing I thought of.

      Let’s not forget Bayer doing the same to make it impossible to prosecute them for infecting thousands of people with HIV and Hepatitis intentionally.

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      7 months ago

      Absolutely, they are preemptively limiting exposure to something they expect to be a problem in the near future.

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    7 months ago

    The company plans to spin off its electronics and water businesses into their own yet-to-be-named companies

    This is the second DuPont breakup in half a decade. In 2019, DowDuPont, which was created in a DuPont merger with Dow Chemical, broke apart into three separate entities: DuPont, Dow Chemical and Corteva, the company’s agriculture business.

    On Wednesday, DuPont said the newly formed electronics company would focus on “semiconductor solutions and advanced electronics products,” while the new water company would be “a comprehensive water solutions provider.” The leftover divisions will remain as part of DuPont.