Leading science company showcases innovative building solutions at InterBuild Egypt

Solidifying its commitment to support the development of construction industry in Egypt, the company's presence at the Middle East and North Africa region's largest event for the building and construction industry, highlights the company's dedication to the construction of safer, high quality, comfortable, and aesthetic buildings.

Through this exhibition, the company aims to position itself closely in the Egyptian construction industry and highlight its science-based "Building Solutions" for sector professionals.

From booth (Z2) in (Hall F), the leading science company will be displaying its latest innovations and full range of offerings to drive safety, performance and aesthetics across the value chain in the sector. The company will showcase its portfolio of solutions to meet the needs of the Egyptian market. Specifically, the new Zodiaq Terra Collection will be revealed for the first time in Egypt, which is considered a revolution in the field of interior design. The Zodiaq Terra Collection offers 34 different colors and designs to maximize the impact on home interiors for both customers and consumers.

"DuPont is always looking for ways to capitalize on the ongoing need for innovation in the building and construction industry whether in Egypt or around the world,"

said Mr. Khaled El-Dessouky, DuPont Egypt's Country Manager.

"Our participation in the region's largest industry event helps us assess the latest advancements in the construction market and provides DuPont with a platform to showcase our own original designs. InterBuild provides us with a valuable opportunity to gauge the direction of the market to continue to provide pioneering building solutions that are the perfect blend of nature and science."

Specifically, the company revealed the new Zodiaq Terra Collection building materials for the first time in Egypt, featuring four new colors that contain at least 50 percent pre-consumer recycled glass. The Zodiaq Terra Collection offers new colors and designs to maximize the impact on home interiors for both customers and consumers. The use of recycled glass in the new Zodiaq color collection highlights DuPont's continuous efforts to identify sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere.

Zodiaq is an advanced composite material including 93% quartz, DuPont's registered unifying polymer and color pigments. Zodiaq's rich color and pattern palette has been developed in cooperation with internationally famous color professionals, taking evolution of both life styles and architectural and aesthetic necessities of modern interior design. With its vivid and shiny look given by quartz crystals, Zodiaq catches and reflects the light offering a wide range of opportunities for both horizontal and vertical applications with its extraordinary clarity and color consistency.

In addition to the new Zodiaq line, DuPont will also be displaying products related to Building Innovations, DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise, Packaging & Industrial Polymers, and Sentry Glas.

In particular, DuPont offerings to construction industry (available at the exhibition) include cutting-edge products designed to make life easier and better for people everywhere such as DuPont Corian, DuPont Zodiaq, DuPont Tyvek, DuPont Typar, DuPont SentryGlas Plus, DuPont SentryGlas Expression, DuPont Zonyl, DuPont Elvaloy.

Putting science to work to create sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people, the company reserves annual budget of nearly $1.4bn for R&D activities for this purpose. Carrying out studies on energy consumption, which has become one of the most important issues of our day, The company broadens its' sustainability commitments, revenues and R&D investments in parallel with the market needs.

Aside from that, the company was one of the first companies to publicly establish environmental goals 18 years ago.

The company has been operating in Egypt since 2000 with the opening of its office in Maadi, and the company today has nine active business units in Cairo. DuPont's presence in the country and its growing local team demonstrate the company's solid involvement in the Egyptian market and its commitment to bringing Egypt up-to-date with the world's most innovative science developments.