DuPont lands in Wilmington the day after opening a new tech center

DuPont flew from Great Valley Airport in Malvern, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington Airport on May 18, a brief 37-minute hop in its Gulfstream G550 (tail N581D).

The same week, the company formally opened the DuPont Cyrel Flexographic Solutions Customer Technology Center at the Experimental Station in Wilmington. As reported by Chemical Engineering on April 21, 2026, CEO Lori Koch joined other executives for a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at the new facility, which is designed to let customers test and innovate on flexographic platemaking systems [chemengonline.com](https://www.chemengonline.com/dupont-opens-flexographic-solutions-technology-center-in-delaware/). The trip likely returns Koch to headquarters after attending the launch event or related industry meetings tied to the center's debut.

The flight follows a pattern of short-haul trips: DuPont flew from Wilmington to the Philadelphia area earlier on May 9, and the aircraft has shuttled between hubs in Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco in recent weeks as the chemical conglomerate pursues its post-split strategy under Koch and CFO Antonella Franzen outlined in the company's May 5 earnings call [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dupont-reports-first-quarter-2026-results-302761915.html).