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Invista, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is a city in and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2000 census its population was 344,284. The 2006 estimated population of 361,420 made it the 51st largest city in the country and the most populous city in Kansas...

 is the world's largest integrated fiber, resin and intermediates company. DuPont
DuPont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company , commonly referred to as DuPont or Du Pont, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. DuPont is currently the world's second largest chemical company in terms of market capitalization and...

 originally formed the company as a subsidiary in 2003 from its textile fibers division and named it DuPont Textiles and Interiors while a permanent identity was established. The company was given the trademarked name Invista and was then sold to privately-owned Koch Industries
Koch Industries
Koch Industries, Inc. is a private corporation based in Wichita, Kansas with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments...

 in April 2004.
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Invista, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is a city in and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2000 census its population was 344,284. The 2006 estimated population of 361,420 made it the 51st largest city in the country and the most populous city in Kansas...

 is the world's largest integrated fiber, resin and intermediates company. DuPont
DuPont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company , commonly referred to as DuPont or Du Pont, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. DuPont is currently the world's second largest chemical company in terms of market capitalization and...

 originally formed the company as a subsidiary in 2003 from its textile fibers division and named it DuPont Textiles and Interiors while a permanent identity was established. The company was given the trademarked name Invista and was then sold to privately-owned Koch Industries
Koch Industries
Koch Industries, Inc. is a private corporation based in Wichita, Kansas with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments...

 in April 2004. Koch Industries combined the newly acquired organization with their KoSa subsidiary to complete the Invista company.

Invista's products include brands such as Lycra fiber, Stainmaster carpeting, Cordura
Cordura
Cordura was the registered name of a certified fabric from DuPont . Today, it is the registered name of a high-performance Nylon-6,6 product manufactured by Invista, a wholly owned division of Koch Industries, Inc...

 durable fabrics, Tactel
Tactel
Tactel can mean:*Tactel - a single sensing point on a tactile sensing array. A tactel is equivalent to a pixel, in that an array of tactels represents an image of the surface being touched....

 nylon fiber, and Antron commercial carpet fiber as well as a variety of polyester resins and specialty intermediates.