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Sustainable Chemistry
UCON ADVANTA Offers Safer Everyday Mechanical Operations
Dow Makes Taiwanese Cleaners Tougher on Stains, Gentler on People and the Environment
Dow Helps Bring Fresh Water to Residents of Perth, Australia
Spinetoram Technology Wins Presidential Honors
FILMTEC Membranes Help Quench Tampa Bay Thirst
Plastics remain sustainable packaging options
Dow technology improves access to quality drinking water
Helping corn crops protect themselves
Breakthrough technology offers environmentally preferable option in carpet backing
Dow product incorporates renewable energy source with building material
Dow heat transfer fluids help reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Dow uses renewable energy to manufacture carpet latex
Revolutionary vaccine technology focused on animal health
Dow funds water availability and economic growth in India
Innovative foam helps protect drivers
New propylene oxide process significantly reduces water use and by-product formation
Renewable seed oils used to produce polyurethane foam
Sugar cane to be used to make polyethylene in Brazil
Design improvements in stretch film conserve petroleum resources
High tech epoxy resins to be made from bio-diesel waste
Dow reduces shipping sack thickness through breakthrough performance
Dow advances sustainable chemistry with renewable propylene glycol
Dow finds new uses for waste water in the Netherlands

Seeing is Believing
Statistics alone can’t fully convey how Dow is making life better. See for yourself how Dow is making a positive difference around the world.
Dow Committed to Access to Clean Water
Dow’s Progressive Community Success Model Addresses Local Quality of Life
Dow Supports Science and Conservation Education
Dow Port of Birds Project Helps to Save Endangered Species in Brazil
Community Success through Habitat Protection

Science & Products
Automotive Solutions
Dow is helping automobile manufacturers improve vehicle production and operation.

A Passive House
Passive House standards call for housing with dramatic reductions in energy consumption and zero carbon emissions.

Biodegradable Surfactants
Surfactants play a key role in the everyday lives of consumers and industry.

Goodbye Trans Fats
Omega-9 canola and sunflower oils, made from Dow AgroSciences NEXERA™ canola and sunflower seeds, represent the ‘next generation’ of cooking oils that allow foodservice and food manufacturing to deliver healthier foods by eliminating trans fats, without compromising taste or performance.

Longer Lasting Roofs
STYROFOAM* roof system that will last 30 years, thus reducing costs as the burden of waste to landfills.

Solar Energy in Spain
A sunny climate, favorable government policies and Dow Performance Fluids are contributing to large, commercially viable solar power plants in Spain.

People
Dow Takes Preventative Approach to Employee Health Care
Dow sees innovation in prevention as the key to managing health risk

Dow Recognizes Students and Teachers in California
Dow's Pittsburg site in California champions science education at its Dow Wetlands Preserve.

Dow Workplace Active Lifestyle Programs Improve Employee Health
Dow is committed to the health of its employees.

¿Como estas?
By providing free Spanish classes for employees in Michigan, Louisiana, and New Jersey, Dow helps to strengthen community ties.

Employees Clean Up Bird Reserve
Employees volunteer to maintain a bird reserve.

Processes
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Efforts
Dow implements an aggressive energy efficiency and conservation effort to manage energy use.

Managing Water Resources
Dow takes active steps around the globe to reduce its water needs.

Waste Reduction Always Pays (WRAP)
Dedicated waste reduction plan has led to a reduction of 230,000 tons of waste, 13 million tons of waste water, and 8 trillion BTU’s of energy.

U.S. EPA Recognizes Dow for Saving Energy
Turning off computer monitors to save energy and money.

Sponsorships
Dow Celebrates 25 Years of Building Communities with Habitat for Humanity
Since 1983, Dow and habitat ofr Humanity have had a strong partnership, building and renovating homes for thousands fo families around the world.

Clean Mangrove Program
Program aimed to protect the existing mangrove area inside the Dow property in Guarujá, Brazil by promoting the awareness communities and minimizing the impact of urban occupation without harming this ecosystem.

Dow Building Solutions Reinforces Support for Solutions-Based Approach to Climate Challenge
Dow Building Solutions lends its support to co-operative dialogue to address climate change.

Partners for Science
Hands-on learning program enthuses Canadian students about science.

THERMAX Helps Use the Sun for Cooking
Dow donated enough of its THERMAX* insulating foam to the Solar Oven Society to build 6,000 solar ovens in developing countries.

Treated Water Sustains a Better Life
Using FILMTEC™ villagers of Poleiros, Brazil purify brackish well water making it fit to drink and to irrigate crops.

Alliances
Dow Part of GreenChill Program
Dow is involved in the U.S. EPA's voluntary GreenChill Advanced Refigeration Program.

Promoting Green Power
Dow joined The World Resources Institute's Green Power Market Development Group to create markets for renewable energy.