Chemours

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The Chemours Company (, kem-ORZ), headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, is an American chemical company. It was spun off from DuPont in July 2015. The company's primary products are refrigerants, titanium dioxide pigment, and industrial fluoropolymer resins. The company operates 28 major production facilities in 8 countries and serves approximately 2,400 customers in approximately 110 countries. Chemours manufactures and sells chemicals under three divisions: Thermal & Specialized Solutions, which produces refrigerants, thermal management products, propellants, foam blowing agents, and specialty solvents including Freon; Titanium Technologies, which produces titanium dioxide; and Advanced Performance Materials which produces membranes, industrial resins, and coatings under the brand names Teflon, Viton, Nafion, ECCtreme ECA, and Krytox. Chemours is ranked the 594th on the Fortune 500 and 1534th on the Forbes Global 2000. The name of the company is a portmanteau of the words "chemical" and "Nemours", derived from E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the company's former parent. The company has faced fines and regulations from its contamination of air, water, and soil with PFAS.