In Michigan, Dow and New Energy Blue announced a long-term supply agreement in North America in which New Energy Blue will create biobased ethylene from renewable agricultural residues. Dow expects to purchase this biobased ethylene, reducing carbon emissions from plastic production, and using it in recyclable applications across transportation, footwear, and packaging. This is Dow’s […]
In Michigan, Dow and New Energy Blue announced a long-term supply agreement in North America in which New Energy Blue will create bio-based ethylene from renewable agricultural residues. Dow expects to purchase this bio-based ethylene, reducing carbon emissions from plastic production, and using it in recyclable applications across transportation, footwear, and packaging. Dow’s agreement with New […]
In Michigan, major chemical producer Dow has committed to “accelerating the circular ecosystem” by transforming waste and alternative feedstock to deliver 3 million metric tons per year of circular and renewable solutions by 2030. Plans include expanding efforts to “stop the waste” by building industrial ecosystems to collect, reuse or recycle waste and expand its […]
In Michigan, Dow announced that five of its largest manufacturing sites in Freeport, Texas (USA), Tarragona (Spain), Terneuzen (Netherlands), Boehlen (Germany) and Schkopau (Germany) have all received International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS recognition for their compliance with rigorous tracking of sustainable feedstocks use. This marks a major step in the company’s global strategy […]
In Brazil, chemical company Dow, Inc. has announced that a cosmetics brand has joined its Project Ybá initiative aimed at sustainably extracting bioactives from the Amazon in a way that benefits local communities. Natura, the first commercial collaborator to join the project, will support the development of the local cooperative. It will also contribute its […]
In the United Kingdom, materials science company Dow and Mura Technology, a developer and licensee of Licella’s Cat-HTR platform, partnered together to scale up Mura’s new HydroPRS (Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling Solution) process to play pivotal role in Mura’s global rollout of 1 million tons of recycling capacity by 2025. Cat-HTR technology can recycle all forms […]
In Singapore, plastics giant Dow and cling-film maker Thong Guan have introduced a biobased polyethylene plastic stretch film for the Asia-Pacific market. Under the terms of their collaboration, Thong Guan will be using Dow’s biobased linear low-density polyethylene resin made from tall oil, a residue of paper production, to produce the Nano Bio range of […]
In Michigan, Dow and BioLogiQ are collaborating to evaluate potential synergies between BioLogiQ’s novel NuPlastiQ BioPolymer, a thermoplastic plant-based resin, and Dow’s industry-leading polyethylene resin portfolio, in an effort to explore enhanced sustainable plastic options. Dow and BioLogiQ will work together to test and consider potential applications that incorporate bio-based resins with polyethylene, in the […]
This week, the DowDuPont leadership team emerged from had become Wilmington’s largest sensory deprivation chamber and fanned out around the country to advise on the timing and specific nature of the break-up into three companies of the conglomerate formed in recent months by the Dow and DuPont mergers. Now Materials Sciences, later: Dow The Materials […]
On December 11, 2015, DuPont and Dow announced that their boards of directors unanimously approved a definitive agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-stock merger of equals with a combined market capitalization of approximately $130 billion at announcement. Next steps The two companies will operate as independent entities until the transaction closes, […]
