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PENSION PLANS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]  
PENSION PLANS PENSION PLANS
Qnity employees participate, as eligible, in Qnity’s and DuPont’s sponsored pension plans, including defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans. Where permitted by applicable law, Qnity and DuPont reserve the right to amend, modify, or discontinue the plans at any time. The defined benefit pension plans of Qnity are summarized below.

Multiemployer Plans
DuPont offers both funded and unfunded contributory and noncontributory defined benefit pension plans in certain non-US jurisdictions that are shared among its businesses, including Qnity, and the participation of its employees and retirees in these plans is reflected as though Qnity participated in multiemployer plans with DuPont. Qnity’s proportionate share of the expense associated with the multiemployer plans is reflected in the unaudited interim Combined Financial Statements, while any assets and liabilities associated with the multiemployer plans are retained by DuPont and recorded on DuPont’s balance sheet.

The benefits under these plans are based primarily on years of service and employees’ pay near retirement.

DuPont’s funding policy is consistent with the funding requirements of federal laws and regulations. Pension coverage for employees of DuPont’s non-U.S. combined subsidiaries is provided, to the extent deemed appropriate, through separate plans. Obligations under such plans are funded by depositing funds with trustees, covered by insurance contracts, or remain unfunded.

Under the multiemployer approach, the amount recognized as expense represents an allocation of net periodic pension cost, which includes non-operating pension costs. The expense allocated to the unaudited interim Combined Financial Statements, which was based on the headcount of participants in the plans, was immaterial for both U.S. and non-U.S. plans for each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.

Single Employer Plans
Qnity has 11 non-U.S. pensions that benefit only its employees and retirees, and these plans are considered single-employer plans. The costs and any assets and liabilities associated with the single-employer pension benefit plans are reflected in the unaudited interim Combined Financial Statements.
The following sets forth the components of the Company's net periodic benefit costs for defined benefit pension plans:
Net Periodic Benefit Costs for All Significant PlansThree Months Ended
 September 30,
Nine Months Ended
September 30,
In millions2025202420252024
Service cost$— $$$
Interest cost
Expected return on plan assets(1)(2)(3)(4)
Curtailment/settlement— — 
Net periodic benefit costs - total$$$$

The net periodic benefit costs, other than the service cost component, are included in "Other income (expense) - net" in the unaudited interim Combined Statements of Operations.

Qnity made $1 million of periodic benefit plan contributions for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and no periodic benefit plan contributions for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Additionally, Qnity made $3 million and $2 million of periodic benefit plan contributions for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Qnity does not expect to make any material additional contributions for the remainder of 2025.