DuPont Expanding Agricultural Research in Delaware

Soybean field (Agricultural Research Service/USDA)

The chemical company DuPont plans to expand its biotech research on soybeans at its Delaware facilities. The $50 million expansion is expected to create 75 new, full-time positions in Delaware by the end of 2015.

The proposed investment will include expanding biotech research facilities at DuPont’s research and development headquarters, the Experimental Station, in Wilmington and at its Stine Haskell Research Center in Newark, Delaware. The plan includes new soybean research laboratories, tissue culture facilities, environmentally controlled growth rooms and greenhouses.

The Delaware Economic Development Office has offered a $1.5 million grant from the Delaware Strategic Fund to create jobs and to assist with the development of the new center. The funding is performance-based and conditioned on DuPont’s capital investment in the project. An additional $125,000 grant will be awarded from the Delaware Department of Agriculture.

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