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Materials A Solid Refresh

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April 2017

DuPont Corian builds on a legacy of innovation with its biggest release of new colors.

- Avinash Rajagopal

Materials A Solid Refresh

Even though it turns 50 this year, DuPont Corian still evokes the sense that it is a material of the future. One reason for this is that the cutting-edge solid-surface material was invented at the height of the space age. True, its modest 1967 debut was in the form of milky-white vanity countertops, but it nevertheless became forever associated with the inventiveness of that era. Another reason is that the DuPont team has continued to relentlessly innovate with this legacy material by introducing technologies that have made it stronger and more appeali

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