The records are a small sample of contracts and agreements filed in the Secretary's office. The larger agreements deal with the purchase and sale of entire business units or the licensing of technology.

There are materials concerning DuPont's sale of its polyamide-bonded diamond abrasives products business to Abrasives International NV of the Netherlands and its American affiliate, Universal Grinding Wheel Company, Inc., on September 30, 1977.

Files related to DuPont's 1962 purchase of the business of Adox Fotowerke Dr. C. Schleussner GmbH.

Documents related to DuPont's 1982 purchase of the assets of Ajax Membrane Products, Inc., and Ajax International Corporation's cellulose acetate membrane and spiral wound cartridges business. The purchase and sales agreement about the October 26, 1982, DuPont purchase of the business assets of Ajax Membrane Products, Inc., and Ajax International Corporation’s cellulose acetate membrane and spiral wound cartridges business. NOTE: Ajax Membrane Products, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Babcock International, from whom Ajax licensed the membrane technology.

Materials concerning the formation of Allied Eneabba Pty. Ltd., an Australian joint venture between DuPont and Allied Minerals, NL. The venture was to mine and process heavy metals, including rutile, zircon, kyanite, monazite, and ilmenite in Western Australia. DuPont's 25% share was part of a plan to recover titanium from ilmenite for its titanium dioxide business.

There is an agreement and additional information about loans, stocks, and deeds about the December 4, 1972, formation of a joint venture (“Allied Eneabba, Pty. Ltd.”) between DuPont and Allied Minerals, NL, for mineral exploration, mining and construction of a pilot plant at Eneabba in western Australia to determine the feasibility of proceeding with mining operations. Allied Minerals, a seventy-five percent equity owner of the joint venture, owned mineral claims for heavy metals, including rutile, zircon, kyanite, monazite, and ilmenite, which were a potentially significant world source for titanium minerals. DuPont, a twenty-five percent equity owner of the joint venture, contributed capital and technical assistance, and was to purchase ilmenite from the joint venture for its Titanium Dioxide business. In 1979, Allied Eneabba Pty. Ltd. was converted to a public company, Allied Eneabba Ltd.

The sales documents about the July 26, 1983, sale of the portion of the DuPont Wurtland, Kentucky, plant involved in the manufacture of microfoam flexible sheet to Ametek, Inc.

There are additional contracts, including expired contracts with railroad companies that service DuPont plants and contracts with industrial firms. The latter includes agreements covering the sale of DuPont's Car Care business to Borden, Inc., and the appointment of Enrique Rodriguez of St. Thomas as distributor of DuPont Car Care products.