Qnity Electronics, Inc.
For the period ended Sep 30, 2025. Filed Nov 18, 2025.
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Sep 30, 2025 · Filed Nov 18, 2025
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Overview
We are a global leader in materials and solutions for semiconductor and electronics industries. We empower our customers’ technology roadmaps to enable advancements in megatrends such as artificial intelligence ("AI"), advanced computing and advanced connectivity. We partner with leading semiconductor and advanced device manufacturers to address complex challenges and develop solutions that facilitate next-generation technological innovations. With over 50 years of experience in systems engineering and material science, a global manufacturing footprint, and major application labs across the world, we are well-positioned to capitalize on emerging opportunities across various sectors including transportation, data centers, consumer and personal electronics and aerospace and defense.
We are organized into two operating segments:
Semiconductor Technologies: Our Semiconductor Technologies segment provides a portfolio of innovative materials and solutions utilized across multiple stages of the semiconductor manufacturing process. These advanced materials are qualified into customers’ roadmaps, designed to improve chip performance, enhance yield, and enable leading-edge node technology.
Interconnect Solutions: Our Interconnect Solutions segment offers a comprehensive range of best-in-class material solutions that address the evolving complexities of signal integrity, thermal and power management and advanced packaging. These solutions are integral for advanced electronics hardware, including complex printed circuit boards and advanced semiconductor packaging.
Our broad portfolio of solutions and materials across both Semiconductor Technologies and Interconnect Solutions segments positions us as a comprehensive solutions provider for our customers. We are often the partner of choice due to our strong innovation capabilities and extensive materials and engineering expertise. In a fast-paced electronics industry, our customers’ needs are highly performance-driven and our long-standing relationships and strong renewal rates demonstrate our commitment to delivering excellence in a demanding market.
Macroeconomic Environment
Recent and continuing developments in U.S. and foreign policy related to trade, such as the imposition of new or increased tariffs on product imports from certain countries have heightened global trade tensions and sparked significant uncertainty in macroeconomic and geopolitical environments, particularly with respect to China. The nature of our global business exposes us to risks associated with trade conflicts between the U.S. and its trading partners, including about the ultimate extent and duration of the tariffs, responsive actions from other countries and the resulting impacts, including on general economic conditions and on our financial condition, liquidity, or results of operations. As a result, we may face a reduction in the demand for, and in the competitiveness of, our products, particularly from local or domestically sourced competition, harm to our relationships with our customers, and decreased profitability, which have the potential to adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Recent Developments
Transition to Stand-Alone Company
On May 22, 2024, DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (“DuPont” or “Parent”), of which we have historically been a part, announced its plan to separate its Electronics business, which included its semiconductor technologies and interconnect solutions businesses, from the other businesses of DuPont (the “Separation"). On November 1, 2025 (the “Separation and Distribution Date”), the
Separation was completed through a tax-free pro rata distribution of all of the then issued and outstanding shares of our common stock to DuPont stockholders at a ratio of one share of our common stock for every two shares of DuPont’s common stock held at the close of business on the record date of October 22, 2025 (the “Distribution”).
Relationship with DuPont
Historically, we have relied on DuPont to manage certain aspects of our operations and provide us with certain services, the costs of which have historically been either allocated or directly billed to us. Historical costs for such services may not necessarily reflect the actual expenses we would have incurred, or will incur, as an independent company. In connection with the Separation, we and/or certain of our subsidiaries entered into the Separation Agreement and certain other agreements with DuPont and/or certain of its subsidiaries as of the Separation and Distribution Date, including, but not limited to, the Tax Matters Agreement, the Employee Matters Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement (as defined below), the Intellectual Property Cross-License Agreement, the Transitional House Marks Trademark License Agreement, the Ex-Station Lease ("ESL") Cost Sharing Agreement (as defined below) and certain other intellectual property-related, real estate-related, confidentiality-related, regulatory-related and commercial agreements. DuPont will not provide us with ongoing assistance other than the transition and other services described in these agreements. These services do not include every service that we have received from DuPont in the past, and DuPont is only obligated to provide the transition services for limited periods following the Separation. Following the cessation of the Transition Services Agreement, we will need to provide internally or obtain from unaffiliated third parties the services we will no longer receive from DuPont. The cost of replacing such services may vary from the historical costs directly allocated to us.
Stand-Alone Company Expenses
As a result of the Separation, we are required to operate as an independent company. Under the Transition Services Agreement with DuPont, dated as of the Separation and Distribution Date (the "Transition Services Agreement"), we are receiving certain services, including informational technology services, from DuPont. As we transition from those services, we will incur additional expenditures. We currently estimate it will cost approximately $180 million in one-time costs, incurred over two years, to establish stand-alone informational technology systems, not including the cost of maintenance or employee-related expenditures.
In addition, we are incurring costs related to expanding, internally or through third parties, our functional capabilities such as information technology, finance, human resources, legal, tax, facilities, branding, government relations and insurance. We are subject to the requirements of the federal and state securities laws and stock exchange requirements and have established, or are in the process of establishing, additional procedures and practices as a stand-alone public company. As a result, we will incur incremental costs including, but not limited to, costs relating to external reporting, internal audit, treasury, investor relations, board of directors and officers and stock administration.
Cost Sharing Arrangements
Under the ESL Cost Sharing Agreement, dated as of August 28, 2025, by and between FCC Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and DuPont (the "ESL Cost Sharing Agreement"), DuPont and Qnity will be responsible for 60% and 40%, respectively, of certain costs and expenses that exceed the net revenues received by DuPont from certain third parties at the Experimental Station facility ("Experimental Station"). As a result, we may have to pay certain additional costs, including in the event that certain portions of Experimental Station not occupied by us, DuPont or their respective subsidiaries as of the Separation become vacant and DuPont does not lease such portions to a new tenant for rental rates that are at least equal to the current rental rates. Because DuPont will operate the Experimental Station following the Separation, such costs will be beyond our control, and our obligation to bear such costs may negatively impact our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Certain Indemnification Obligations to DuPont
In connection with the Separation, we have been contractually allocated, and will directly pay or indemnify DuPont for, the Applicable Qnity Percentage of certain liabilities, including funding obligations of DuPont under the Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU"), legacy PFAS liabilities and liabilities related to businesses and operations of DuPont that were previously discontinued or divested. The Applicable Qnity Percentage is equal to the trailing twelve month Pro Forma Operating EBITDA attributable to the Qnity business and assets (measured at the time of the distribution, but prior to giving effect to the distribution) divided by the trailing twelve month Pro Forma Operating EBITDA (measured at the time of the distribution, but prior to giving effect to the distribution) of DuPont, multiplied by 100. For purposes of the following discussion, we have assumed the Applicable Qnity Percentage is 44% and determined all amounts in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Separation Agreement (including adjustments therein related to estimated income tax benefits arising from the liabilities allocated to us).
Liabilities under the Memorandum of Understanding
As of September 30, 2025, DuPont has borne Qualified Spend of approximately $665 million and has recorded an indemnification liability for probable and reasonably estimable future Qualified Spend of $216 million. Accordingly, we expect to record an indemnification liability for such probable and reasonably estimable future Qualified Spend of $75 million.
We will directly contribute or indemnify DuPont for, the Applicable Qnity Percentage of DuPont’s funding obligations in respect of an MOU Escrow Account established by DuPont, Corteva, Inc. ("Corteva") and The Chemours Company ("Chemours") to support and manage potential future eligible PFAS costs.
New Jersey
On August 3, 2025, DuPont, together with Chemours and Corteva and its subsidiary EIDP Inc. (formerly known as E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company) (“EIDP”), agreed to a proposed Judicial Consent Order (the “Consent Order”) with the State of New Jersey to resolve outstanding claims by the State of New Jersey pending against the companies related to legacy use of a wide variety of substances of concern for an aggregate cash payment to the State of New Jersey of $875 million, payable over a period of 25 years. The first of the scheduled annual payments will be due within 30 days of the date the Judicial Consent Order is entered by the Court, but no earlier than January 31, 2026.
Contingent upon the Settlement being approved by the Court, DuPont and Corteva will purchase Chemours’ interest in future, if any, insurance proceeds related to PFAS claims. DuPont and Corteva will make the purchase by contributing a total of $150 million into an escrow fund (the “NJ Insurance Escrow”) to be applied to Chemours’ share of the Settlement. In exchange, Chemours shall assign to DuPont and Corteva its rights to $150 million of PFAS-related insurance proceeds plus a fee equal to the lesser of (a) $35 million, or (b) $3 million plus interest (at prime minus 2%) on the unrecovered fraction of $150 million, until Chemours’ share of insurance recoveries fully recoups the purchase price.
The obligations of DuPont set forth in this section relating to the Settlement, including the cash payments, any remediation obligations (and related liabilities), and the establishment and maintenance of the reserve fund, and the purchase of Chemours’ interest in future insurance proceeds related to PFAS claims, in each case constitute, liabilities contractually allocated between us and DuPont based their respective Applicable Percentage. Accordingly, we will indemnify DuPont, or remit directly to the relevant third party, the amount owed in respect of our share of such liabilities.
As of September 30, 2025, DuPont recorded a pre-tax charge of $177 million related to the proposed Consent Order, we estimate our contractually allocated portion of the recorded pre-tax charge will be approximately $66 million. Additionally, DuPont recorded interest accretion of $4 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, resulting in a liability of $181 million as of September 30, 2025. We estimate our contractually allocated portion of this accreted interest will be approximately $2 million. We will share in the ongoing costs of maintaining a reserve fund in the event the remedial funding source for a site has been exhausted and the party responsible is not otherwise performing the required remediation.
We estimate our contractually allocated cash contribution in respect of the NJ Insurance Escrow will be $47 million. We will also receive the Applicable Qnity Percentage of any insurance proceeds related to PFAS claims recovered.
Other
As of September 30, 2025, DuPont has recorded liabilities related to business and operations, historical activities of DuPont, including environmental liabilities, and its present and former subsidiaries, for which we estimate our contractually allocated portion to be $38 million.
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