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...Co.'s business units in 2002, with sales of $4.9 billion. That number represented more than 20 percent of total sales at DuPont, the largest U.S.-based chemical firm. The Performance Materials unit is a major producer of nylon, polyester, acetal and other specialty plastics, and represents DuPont in the DuPont Dow Elastomers and DuPont Teijin Films joint ventures.
In 33 years with DuPont, Naylor held a variety of technical and manufacturing positions before assuming his current post in early 2002. He's now keeping the unit focused on new products while defending DuPont's position in areas it has pioneered.
Naylor recently took some time in his Wilmington office to outline DuPont Performance Materials' positions on a number of vital topics.
Q: Is the role of research and development changing? Is it tough to maintain R&D spending in this current market?
A: You really have to make a commitment and stick to it. What we've found is that although everyone seems to benchmark R&D as a percentage of sales, we're finding that's less important than what we're doing to improve the productivity of the R&D part. How do you more...
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