A 1902, shugaban DuPont, Eugene du Pont, ya mutu, kuma abokan da suka tsira sun sayar da kamfanin ga 'ya'ya uku na ainihin wanda ya kafa. An nada Charles Lee Reese a matsayin darektan kuma kamfanin ya fara mayar da hankali ga sassan bincike. Daga bisani kamfanin ya sayi ƙananan kamfanonin sunadarai; a 1912 waɗannan ayyukan sun haifar da bincike na gwamnati a karkashin Dokar Sherman Antitrust. Kotuna sun bayyana cewa rinjaye na kamfanin na fashewar fashewa ya zama mallaka kuma ya ba da umarnin kashewa. Hukuncin kotu ya haifar da kafa kamfanin Hercules Powder Company (daga baya Hercules da yanzu wani ɓangare na Ashland) da kuma Atlas Powder Company (wanda kamfanin Imperial Chemical Industries (IIC) ya ba da izini) ya sayar da kamfanin ga 'ya'ya uku na ainihin wanda ya kafa kamfanin.
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