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Basic Plastics
adhesives | appliances and appliance housings | agricultural films | automotive parts and trim | beverage bottles |
bins, crates, pails and pallets | building and construction | coatings | consumer and durable goods | consumer
electronics | disposable diaper liners | fibers and nonwovens | films, bags and packaging for food and consumer
products | hoses and tubing | household and industrial bottles | housewares | hygiene and medical films |
industrial and consumer films and foams | information technology | oil tanks and road equipment | plastic pipe |
textiles | toys, playground equipment and recreational products | wire and cable compounds
STRENGTHS AND STRATEGY
•฀฀Vast฀global฀reach฀with฀sales,฀marketing,฀application฀development,฀
technical service and channels-to-market in nearly 100 countries
•฀฀Differentiated฀product฀slate,฀including฀customized฀product฀
offerings and specialty compounds
•฀฀Leading฀process฀technology,฀with฀integrated฀facilities฀that฀
are scale-efficient and highly productive
•฀฀Business฀model฀that฀has฀established฀strong-performing฀joint฀
ventures in the Middle East and Asia Pacific
•฀฀Key฀Joint฀Ventures:฀EQUATE,฀Equipolymers,฀Americas฀Styrenics,฀
Univation Technologies, Kuwait Olefins, SCG-Dow Group
LEADING INDUSTRY POSITIONS
No. 1: Producer of polyethylene, the most commonly
used plastic in the world
•฀฀Leading฀supplier฀of฀polypropylene,฀polycarbonate฀
and polystyrene
12 The Dow Chemical Company
Performance Products
adhesives | aircraft deicing fluids | appliances | carpeting | chelating agents | chemical intermediates | civil
engineering | cleaning products | coated paper and paperboard | composites | construction | corrosion inhibitors |
detergents, cleaners and fabric softeners | electrical castings, potting, encapsulation and tooling | electrical laminates |
electronics | flavors and fragrances | flooring | footwear | gas treatment | heat transfer fluids | home and office
furnishings | industrial coatings | mattresses | metalworking fluids | packaging | sealants | surfactants
STRENGTHS AND STRATEGY
•฀฀World’s฀largest฀producer฀of฀propylene฀oxide฀and฀polyether฀
polyols; world’s largest producer of epoxy and intermediates;
and a leading producer of performance solvents, monomers
and intermediates
•฀฀Strong฀supply฀network฀and฀R&D฀capabilities
•฀฀Building-blocks฀maintain฀low-cost฀position฀and฀retain฀flexibility฀
to fuel growth in downstream derivatives
•฀฀Highly฀diverse฀portfolio฀of฀product฀lines,฀marketed฀to฀a฀broad฀
range of end uses
•฀฀Targeted฀application฀development฀to฀further฀differentiate฀
product offerings
LEADING INDUSTRY POSITIONS
(Seven businesses: Polyurethanes; Oxygenated Solvents;
Amines; Epoxy; Performance Fluids, Polyglycols and
Surfactants; Performance Monomers; Emulsion Polymers)
No. 1: Propylene Oxide
No. 1: Polyether Polyols
No. 1: Epoxy and Intermediates
No. 1: Ethyleneamines
No. 1: Ethanolamines
No. 1: E-series Glycol Ethers
No. 2: P-series Glycol Ethers
No. 1: Acetone Derivatives
No. 1: Oxo Alcohols
No. 2: Performance Fluids