As part of DuPont's two-hundred-year history of development, DuPont Electronic Materials (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. officially began operations in 1996 and became a wholly-owned enterprise of DuPont's Electronics & Communications business in China in 2001. Dongguan DuPont possesses the same advanced technology as DuPont's electronic materials plants in other countries around the world. Its main product is electronic paste, which serves as the high-tech foundational material for manufacturing thick-film circuits, multilayer capacitors, network resistors, touch switches, and other high-quality specialized electronic products. These are widely used in the automotive, telecommunications systems, computers, and high-tech product sectors.