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DuPont Cuts Will Not Affect South Carolina Operations.

By Jim DuPlessis, The State, Columbia, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 13--DuPont will cut 3,500 jobs worldwide by year's end, but none of the cuts will occur at its three operations in South Carolina, company officials said Monday.

The cuts do not affect DuPont's Invista textiles business, which it plans to sell to Koch Industries of Wichita, Kan., said DuPont spokesman David Hastings. Invista's synthetic fibers plants include a 1,420-worker nylon operation in Kershaw County.

Thursday, DuPont said privately owned Koch plans to

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