DuPont to set up knowledge centre in Hyderabad
By Our Corporate Bureau | 03 Feb 2007
Hyderabad: DuPont, the global products and services company has announced plans to invest over Rs 100 crore to establish its research and development (R&D) centre in Hyderabad, to be called the DuPont Knowledge Center. This will be the company's first R&D centre in India and is expected to accommodate more than 300 scientists and other employees.
It will be the sixth major DuPont R&D facility outside US, after Shanghai, China, Utsunomiya, Japan, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Wuppertal, Germany, and Meyrin, Switzerland.
DuPont has appointed Dr Homi Bhedwar, as director for the India Knowledge Center.
Before relocating to Hyderabad, Dr Bhedwar held R&D leadership positions in DuPont Electronic & Communication Technologies' businesses at the company's headquarters in Wilmington, Del., US.
The DuPont Knowledge Center in India will focus on discovery research as well as applications development in a variety of areas, said DuPont senior vice president and chief science & technology officer Dr Uma Chowdhry.
DuPont invests an average of $1.3 billion annually on global research and development in a diverse range of technologies for many markets including agriculture, automotive, construction, electronics, chemicals and industrial materials. It has more than 4,400 scientists and engineers.