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Fri Jun 16, 2006
BEIJING, June 16 (Reuters) - DuPont Co. (DD.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the second-largest U.S. chemicals maker, said on Friday its growth in China would accelerate and that it was adding hundreds of employees a year at its China operations.
"We have seen healthy double-digit growth in sales and in fact that could accelerate," Thomas Powell, a company vice president and head of Dupont's China operations, told reporters.
The company, which trails only Dow Chemical Co. (DOW.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in the U.S., expects earnings this year to rise 22 percent over 2005 to $2.85 a share due to cost cuts and strong pricing.
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