SHANGHAI, CHINA – April 20, 2012 – The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) showcased its broad portfolio of plastics solutions to customers and value chains in Asia Pacific at Chinaplas 2012.
With its diverse product offering, Dow is committed to helping brand owners in the Asia Pacific region develop cost-efficient, innovative solutions that are aligned with industry trends as well as marketplace needs.
“We believe in innovation through collaboration with our customers and the value chain,” said Peter Wong, Commercial Vice President, Performance Plastics for Asia Pacific. “As a company dedicated to innovation, Dow continues to create advanced plastics solutions to help our customers in the Asia Pacific achieve better performance and efficiency.”
Dow is a leading global supplier of essential and performance plastics, with highly productive and scalable operations feeding channels to market in almost 100 countries. It is the leading producer of polyethylene, the world’s most commonly used plastic. The company’s Performance Plastics Division, formed in early 2011, focuses on delivering high-value, market-driven solutions to the following market segments: Packaging, Hygiene and Medical, Consumer Durables, Transportation and Electrical & Telecommunications.
"Dow Performance Plastics’ intent is on being the go-to innovator for targeted industry sectors across the Asia Pacific, delivering highly valued solutions with and for its customers through intimate engagement, collaboration and dialogue," said Mr. Wong. "At Chinaplas 2012, we are demonstrating how Dow delivers greater value for our customers - from the creation of growth opportunities to market-driven innovations."
Packaging
Dow remains one of the world’s largest packaging materials suppliers and Dow’s high performance products and solutions are largely aligned with flexible packaging, the fastest growing segment of the market. Dow is innovating to help the industry deliver smart and sustainable packaging solutions that balance light weight as well as performance needs such as food freshness and safety.
Hygiene & Medical
Dow Hygiene and Medical is a recognized global leader in the hygiene, medical and adjacent markets delivering innovative solutions in personal hygiene and medical end-use products. Key materials and technology segments include back sheets, nonwoven fibers, elastic components, sealants, binders, additives and dispersants.
As a solutions provider across polyethylene, elastomers, binders, polyolefin emulsions and acrylic product families, Dow Hygiene and Medical delivers a broad and deep product portfolio, as well as the expertise and resources to serve the entire value chain, meeting the needs of hygiene and medical markets in both emerging and mature geographies.
Consumer Durables
Dow is one of the largest producers of polyolefin elastomers and is the leader in elastomer innovation, developing elastomers that reduce the environmental impact of durable goods in applications such as footwear, sporting goods and household goods.
With Dow, customers are able to expand their preferred use of sustainable recyclable polyolefin-based materials.
Transportation
Dow polyolefin elastomers enable growth in the transportation industry by enabling light weighting of automobile parts through more efficient impact modifiers. Dow dvancements in automotive plastics helps reduce weight by about 10 lbs per vehicle contributing to decreased fuel consumption.
Electrical & Telecommunications
Dow Electrical & Telecommunications is a leading global provider of products, technology, solutions and knowledge that sets standards for reliability, longevity, efficiency, ease of installation and protection that the power and telecommunications industries can count on in the transmission, distribution and consumption of power, voice and data.
Understanding that collaboration is essential to success, Dow Electrical & Telecommunications works together with cable makers, other industry suppliers, utilities, municipalities, testing institutes and other organizations around the world to help develop solutions and create mutual value that will sustain these industries for years to come.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company connects chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, renewable energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture. In 2011, Dow had annual sales of US$60 billion and employed approximately 52,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 197 sites in 36 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at www.dow.com
