Corteva Agriscience™, agriculture division of DowDuPont, brand unveiled.
Africa
Asia Pacific
Australasia
Europe
Latin America and Caribbean
North America
2018
Corteva
Corteva Agriscience™
2015
Dow DuPont
Merger of equals
Dow and DuPont announce a definitive agreement under which the companies will merge, then subsequently spin off into three independent companies.
2011
DuPont
Danisco acquired
DuPont acquires Danisco, a world-leading company in nutrition and health and industrial biosciences.
2002
Pioneer
Pioneer enters China
Pioneer enters into a joint venture to market seed corn in China.
1999
DuPont
Investing in Pioneer
DuPont becomes 100 percent owner of Pioneer.
1997
Dow
Dow AgroSciences
Dow acquires 100 per cent ownership of DowElanco and renames it Dow AgroSciences.
1996
Pioneer
Genomics in Corn
Pioneer is the first to start a genomics effort in corn.
1996
DuPont Dow
DuPont Dow Elastomers
DuPont Dow Elastomers opens for business in 1996 as a joint venture between DuPont and The Dow Chemical Company.
1991
Pioneer
#1 in soybeans
Pioneer becomes the number one brand of soybeans in North America.
1989
DowElanco
DowElanco
Dow and Eli Lilly form DowElanco, a joint venture to produce agricultural products.
1987
DuPont
Charles J. Pedersen
Charles J. Pedersen, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work with DuPont in describing the methods of synthesizing crown ethers.
1981
DuPont
Conoco
DuPont buys petroleum manufacturer Conoco, Inc. At the time, the largest merger in corporate history.
1972
Dow
Dow launches new insecticide
Dow launches Lorsban® insecticide, now one of the most widely used insecticides in the world.
1970
Pioneer
Changes at Pioneer
The company changes its name to Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., and establishes a separate overseas subsidiary.
1968
DuPont
Lannate®
DuPont introduces Lannate methomyl insecticide, which goes on to become one of its most successful crop protection products.
1968
Dow
Ziploc®
Dow begins test-marketing Ziploc bags.
ZIPLOC is a trademark of S. C. Johnson & Son.
1965
DuPont
Kevlar® discovered
Stephanie L Kwolek develops the first liquid crystal polymer, which provides the basis for Kevlar® brand fiber.
1964
Dow
Billion-dollar milestone
Dow annual sales exceed $1 billion.
1962
DuPont
Lycra®
Lycra brand elastane fiber caps two decades of research to produce a good synthetic elastomeric fiber.
Lycra is a registered trademark of Invista.
1953
Dow
Saran Wrap®
Dow introduces Saran Wrap for household use.
Saran Wrap and logo are trademarks of S.C. Johnson & Son Inc.
1949
Pioneer
Pioneer® hits a million
Annual sales of Pioneer® brand seed corn in North America pass the million-unit mark.
1946
Pioneer
Pioneer Hi-Bred Canada
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company of Canada is founded.
1942
Dow
Canadian Expansion
Dow’s first expansion begins with Dow Chemical Canada, Ltd.
1941
Pioneer
US Vice President
Pioneer’s Henry Wallace is elected US Vice President under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1935
Pioneer
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company
The company changes its name to Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company.
1929
Dow
Dow’s first female researcher
Dow hires its first woman researcher, Sylvia Stoesser. Five of her patents helped unlock the secrets to treating oil wells.
1928
DuPont
Chemical expansion
DuPont purchases the Grasselli Chemical Company. Grasselli was a long-time manufacturer of inorganic and organic insecticides.
1926
Hi-Bred
The start of Hi-Bred Corn Company
Founder Henry A. Wallace incorporates the Hi-Bred Corn Company, ushering in a new era of farmer acceptance of hybrid corn
1906
Dow
Dow’s first agricultural product
Dow produces its first agriculture product at a time when the value of US farms had soared to $30 billion
1897
Dow
The Dow Chemical Company is founded
Electrochemical pioneer and unsinkable optimist, H.H. “Crazy Dow” Dow, founds Dow Chemical Company, a one-product start-up that would rewrite history.
1802
DuPont
E.I du Pont
With his first powder mill, E.I. du Pont establishes the iconic company that bears his name, on the banks of the Brandywine River