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INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS
The Infrastructure Solutions segment is comprised of an industry-leading portfolio of businesses utilizing advanced technology
to deliver products such as architectural and industrial coatings, construction material ingredients, building insulation,
adhesives, microbial protection for the oil and gas industry, and water technologies. With unmatched R&D capabilities, a broad
range of chemistries, extensive geographic reach and strong channels to market, this segment is well positioned to capitalize on
market trends. The segment has broad geographic reach with sales in nearly 150 countries and R&D and manufacturing
facilities located in key geographic areas.
Details on Infrastructure Solutions' 2015 sales, by business and geographic area, are as follows:
Dow Building & Construction
Dow Building & Construction is comprised of two businesses - Dow Building Solutions and Dow Construction Chemicals.
Leveraging more than 60 years of building science experience and deep application expertise, as well as 75 years of
STYROFOAM™ brand products, Dow creates high-performance solutions designed to help make residential and commercial
buildings more comfortable, last longer, save energy and reduce emissions. The business group offers extensive lines of
industry-leading durable insulation solutions and functional ingredients that provide improved thermal performance, air sealing,
weatherization, waterproofing and fire retardancy for construction products.
Dow Coating Materials
The Dow Coating Materials business manufactures and delivers solutions that leverage high quality, technologically advanced
product offerings for architectural paint and coatings, as well as industrial coatings applications, including paper, leather,
concrete, wood, automotive, maintenance and protective industries. Dow Coating Materials introduced the industry's first
waterborne technology in 1953 and has since led the industry's conversion away from solvent borne technology to allow for
lower volatile organic compounds and an improved sustainability profile while pushing performance boundaries.
Energy & Water Solutions
Energy & Water Solutions is comprised of four businesses - Dow Microbial Control; Dow Oil, Gas & Mining; Dow Solar; and
Dow Water and Process Solutions. Dow Microbial Control provides technology used to predict, diagnose and sustainably solve
the planet’s most difficult microbial challenges while Dow Oil, Gas & Mining is helping to provide energy to the world by
supplying smart, innovative and customized solutions to enable the tapping of both conventional and unconventional sources.
Providing building-integrated photovoltaics, Dow Solar enables energy solutions in the infrastructure market sector. Also
aligned to the infrastructure market sector is Dow Water and Process Solutions, a leading provider of purification and
separation technologies including reverse osmosis membranes and ion exchange resins to help customers with a broad array of
separation and purification needs such as reusing waste water streams, making fresh drinking water from sea water, creating a
closed loop water system for oil field operations, and removing impurities in dairy processing.
Performance Monomers
The Performance Monomers business produces monomer products that are sold externally as well as consumed internally as
building blocks used in downstream polymer businesses. The business' products are used in several applications, including
dispersions and emulsions for adhesives, coatings, inks, woven and non-woven textiles, plastics and polymers and
superabsorbent products. Included in this portfolio is Plastics Additives, a worldwide supplier of additives used in a large
variety of applications ranging from construction materials and packaging containers to consumer appliances and electronics,
business machines and automotive parts.