DuPont flies to Milan the same week CEO Lori Koch addresses a European chemicals summit

DuPont flew from Memmingen to Milano Linate on June 9, a 37-minute hop across the Alps aboard its Gulfstream G550 (N581D). The brief flight came after a longer journey from Paris–Le Bourget earlier in the week, a sign the company’s executive team was working through a string of European stops.

The short leg lands DuPont in Milan the same week the annual European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) Sustainability & Innovation Summit takes place at the MiCo convention center, running June 10–11. The summit draws chemical-industry executives to discuss regulatory shifts, decarbonization targets, and Middle East supply-chain disruptions—topics that dominated DuPont’s first-quarter earnings call, per a transcript published by The Motley Fool. CEO Lori Koch and CFO Antonella Franzen spent much of that call detailing how DuPont is raising prices to offset Middle East conflict costs and navigating a $90 million incremental expense for raw materials and logistics.

DuPont’s G550 operates heavily out of Wilmington, Delaware, its global headquarters, but the plane’s recent track shows a deliberate European swing: Paris on June 8, followed by the Alps crossing to Milan. For a company that chairs a portfolio of Kevlar, Tyvek, and Corian, Milan represents a chance to meet specialty-chemicals buyers and investors in person—far from the Delaware boardroom where Koch earlier this year announced a reverse stock split approved by shareholders on May 21, per a DuPont press release.