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DuPont India has announced the setting up of a new ‘Innovation Centre' at Pune, focusing primarily on the automotive segment.
The centre will work closely with automotive OEMs and component manufacturers in the country, a company release said here on Thursday.
The $31.5-billion US multinational's Indian operations generated sales of nearly $700 million during 2010. Of this, a fifth was accounted for by the automotive segment.
The product in this segment include automotive refurnished paints, high performance polymers such as ‘Kevlar' and fatigue-resistant material going into the interiors and exteriors of cars.
DuPont already has an existing ‘Knowledge Centre' at Hyderabad, which focuses on agriculture and industrial biotechnology.
The Centre had, in fact, filed nine patents since November 2008, all of which pertain to agriculture.
“Our new centre's focus would work on cellulosic renewable fuels, including bio-ethanol and bio-butanol. We will also be come out with innovative solutions for solar and electric vehicles,” Mr Balvinder Kalsi, President (South Asia), DuPont, told reporters here.
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