CUNITY (formerly DuPont) outlines Newark expansion, says site will support semiconductor supply chain
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Ryan Moss, Newark site leader for CUNITY (the electronic materials company spun out from DuPont), told New Castle County officials the Newark campus employs about 800 people, recently completed an expansion across from Glasgow High School and will support growing demand from semiconductor customers as CUNITY begins trading publicly.
Ryan Moss, the Newark site leader for CUNITY, told the New Castle County Economic Development Subcommittee on Dec. 2 that the company formed when DuPont separated its electronic materials business and that CUNITY began trading publicly Nov. 1.
Moss said CUNITY focuses on electronic materials used in semiconductor and interconnect manufacturing and described two business lines based at the Newark site — chemical mechanical planarization technologies (CMP) and advanced cleans and slurry technologies. "Combined between those two businesses, we are right around a total sales or revenue of around $5,000,000,000," he said, adding that 2024 revenue was about $4.3 billion and that trajectory for 2025 is toward $5 billion.
Moss traced the Newark site's roughly 60-year history and said the campus now includes 12 buildings, three manufacturing units and two significant R&D operations. He highlighted a recent, mechanically completed expansion located across from Glasgow High School that, he said, brings the total site footprint almost to 1,000,000 square feet to accommodate future growth.
On workforce, Moss said the Newark site employs about 800 people and supports research-and-development activity that includes roughly 120 engineers and scientists. He described an average employee age near 45 and noted turnover pressures following the COVID-19 period as the site refills and grows. On near-term staffing for the new facility, he said phase 1 had an initial staffing of 12 and that phase 2 would relocate about 70 employees from the main campus.
Moss also said some underused space on the main campus is being subleased to Sardo and Sons for warehousing and logistics operations.
The presentation drew mixed responses from the council. Former DuPont employee mister Hollins praised continued local investment, calling it beneficial for New Castle County residents. Councilman Street raised concerns about the corporation's historical ties to Wilmington, saying a 2014 Newsweek piece and subsequent corporate changes left nonprofits and communities "without help" and left environmental problems that local and state agencies still had to address. "That doesn't replace what was," Street said.
Chair comments and other council members emphasized the jobs and local economic benefits of retaining manufacturing and R&D operations in the county. The chair closed the presentation portion by thanking Moss for appearing and fielding questions.
What happens next: Moss fielded council questions about phasing, staffing and site locations; no formal action or vote related to the presentation was taken during the meeting.
Sources: Presentation and Q&A with Ryan Moss, Newark site leader, New Castle County Economic Development Subcommittee meeting, Dec. 2, 2025.
