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W. D. (Don) Johnson is chairman and representative director of DuPont K.K. He joined DuPont in 1974 at the Kinston plant in North Carolina.
He held a variety of technical and manufacturing assignments in Dacron� polyester fibers. From there he moved to the DuPont Richmond, Va., site with manufacturing responsibility for Tyvek� spunbonded polyethylene. In 1984, Mr. Johnson went to the nylon facility in Seaford, Del., as assistant site manager. Later he held corporate strategy and composites business developmental assignments at corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Del., before relocating to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1992 where he had responsibility for the European Nonwovens (Tyvek�, Sontara�, Typar�) and Advanced Fiber Systems (Kevlar�, Nomex� and Teflon�) businesses. In 1994 he became global business director for Kevlar� and relocated to Richmond, Va.
In 1996, Mr. Johnson became managing director and general manager for DuPont Advanced Fiber Systems, and in 1997 he became vice president and general manager of this same unit.
In December 1997, he became vice president and general manager for DuPont Nylon in North America with responsibility for all of the DuPont nylon fiber and intermediates business in North America and for the DuPont Flooring business worldwide. In 1999, he became group vice president - Nylon Worldwide. In October 2001 he was named group vice president - DuPont Operations & Services. In January 2004, he was named group vice president - DuPont Global Operations & Engineering with the consolidation of all global operations and engineering into one unit. He was named to his current position in April 2006.
Mr. Johnson was born in North Carolina in 1947. He was graduated from North Carolina State University in 1974 with degrees in applied mathematics and engineering. | 