Sustainability Science
Supporting customers’ ability to easily identify and select products with specific sustainability attributes.
A brand new sustainability experience
At Dow, we’re working to deliver a sustainable future through our materials science expertise and collaboration with our customers. By constantly innovating how we source, manufacture, and deliver material solutions, we help our customers achieve their goals and create a better tomorrow.
These brand pillars represent the sustainability attributes of our product portfolio that help our customers and value chain partners discover and deliver more sustainable solutions to the world we share. Our product sustainability claims rely on technical knowledge and evidence, and are made from a lifecycle perspective using recognized international standards and certification systems where appropriate. So our customers can trust the products they buy from Dow will provide the sustainability benefits they promise.
Decarbia™
Supporting carbon neutrality
We are implementing and advancing technologies to manufacture our products with lower GHG emissions. This, in turn, helps our customers reduce their GHG emissions as we collaborate to decarbonize value chains all the way to the consumer.
Brand solutions
DOWSIL™
Silicone adhesives and sealants and silicone-based technology. It offers solutions to improve industrial performance and to meet the diverse needs every customer.
NORDEL™ EPDM
These high-quality, virtually gel-free polymers - including ultra-high-molecular-weight and oil-extended grades - are an excellent choice for a long list of automotive, construction, consumer and other applications.
PRIMAL™
Supplied in water and can be solubilized readily to combine the advantages of outstanding flow and pigment dispersion characteristic of solution polymers with some of the toughness of emulsion polymers.
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through better food packaging
Dow and AEON's Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP) tackles climate change by reducing food waste and extending shelf life, cutting GHG emissions from food activities, which account for 28-35% of global emissions. VSP enhances sustainability and consumer acceptance in Japan.
DOWSIL™ Solutions for Glass Façades in High Wind Zones
Dow’s DOWSIL™ technologies enabled the Tianjin CTF Finance Centre to achieve a sustainable and resilient glass façade design. By enhancing energy efficiency, safety, and performance, Dow contributed to decarbonization efforts and helped meet LEED Gold standards in high windload zones.
Dow Silicones Drive Sustainability at IOC Headquarters
Dow’s silicone solutions played a vital role in helping the Olympic House achieve LEED Platinum and other top sustainability certifications. By enabling energy-efficient, durable glass façades, Dow supported decarbonization efforts while enhancing occupant comfort and architectural freedom.
Dow Silicones Power Sustainable Charlemagne Renovation
Dow’s silicone solutions transformed the Charlemagne building, enabling energy-efficient glass façades and a modern, sustainable design. By meeting EU energy standards and enhancing natural light, Dow contributed to decarbonization and revitalized the structure’s aesthetic appeal.
Dow Silicones Enhance BRE Bank’s Iconic Glass Façade
Dow’s silicone solutions enabled the striking glass façade of BRE Bank in Bydgoszcz, blending modern design with historical surroundings. By ensuring structural integrity, energy efficiency, and international quality standards, Dow contributed to a sustainable and innovative architectural landmark.
Dow Solutions Shape Iconic Fondation Louis Vuitton
Dow’s silicone sealants and SentryGlas® interlayer were integral to the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s innovative glass sails. By enabling unique geometries, energy efficiency, and long-term durability, Dow supported the creation of this award-winning, sustainable architectural landmark in Paris.
Dow Secures Pae White’s Qwalala Glass Sculpture in Venice
Dow’s DOWSIL™ 993 Structural Glazing Sealant enabled the structural integrity of Pae White’s Qwalala sculpture at the 57th Venice Biennale. With advanced engineering and durability, Dow supported the seamless assembly of 3,000 glass bricks, achieving a groundbreaking blend of art and technology.
Dow’s SSG Technology: 50 Years of Glass Façade Innovation
Dow’s Silicone Structural Glazing (SSG) technology revolutionized glass façades, ensuring durability and energy efficiency for over 50 years. Its proven performance continues to enable sleek architectural designs while meeting the highest standards for safety and sustainability worldwide.
Dow Secures Safe Glass Façade for Liverpool Airport
Dow’s silicone solutions enabled Liverpool John Lennon Airport’s glass façade to meet stringent blast-resistance and safety standards. Combining security with design freedom, Dow’s expertise supports public safety while maintaining the terminal’s impressive architectural appeal.
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Building, Construction & Infrastructure
Collaborating with architects, engineers, building designers, contractors and manufacturers, enables the development of solutions to enhance performance, durability, aesthetics and sustainability across the built environment.
Cold Chain & Insulation
Delivering lightweight, energy-efficient cold-chain and insulation solutions to help meet the world’s demand for healthy and fresh food.
Cool Roof Coatings
Offering an elastomeric roof coating with durable performance and long-term thermal performance energy efficiency.
Renewable Energy
Addressing industry challenges with renewable energy technologies, from polyolefin and silicone-based solutions to protect photovoltaic cells to heat transfer fluids used in concentrated solar power and geothermal systems.
Climate Week Collaboration
Decarbonizing Value Chains – It’s Time
Jim Fitterling discusses Dow’s decarbonization journey
C2ES Event Highlights – Part 1
C2ES Event Highlights – Part 3
Dow and the Carbon Footprint Ledger
Additional resources for decarbonization
Path to Zero emissions: Dow is investing approximately $1 billion per year to drive both growth and decarbonization of our manufacturing assets.
Carbon-neutral façades: Customers can request project-specific carbon-neutrality certificates.
Ethylene Propylene Diene Terpolymer (EPDM): Driving for better rubber pellets with more sustainability solutions.
PASCAL™ Technology for home cold appliances reduces energy consumption and results in GHG emissions savings.
Three ISCC PLUS certifications for Dow Polyurethanes sites reinforce progress on displacing fossil-based feedstocks.
Dow’s MobilityScience™ solutions support resilient, low-carbon mobility.
Ecolibrium™
Bio-based materials
Utilizing biomass feedstocks as an alternative to virgin fossil feedstocks, these products can deliver equal performance whether the demand is for drop-ins or a new formulation. With both direct source and mass balance alternatives, we’re working closely with customers to advance bio-based solutions.
Product solutions
AFFINITY™ PL 1881G REN Polyolefin Plastomer
Produced via INSITE™ Technology. Produced using bio-based feedstocks. Certified on a mass balance basis by the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC).
AGILITY™
Next generation low density polyethylene resin for high speed extrusion coating.
ELITE™ 5230GC R Enhanced Polyethylene Resin
A linear low density metallocene copolymer produced by INSITE™ Technology, processable in cast film mono- and coextrusion equipment designed for polyethylene.
ISONATE™
A white to light yellow crystalline solid (below melting point) of high purity and low acidity, containing approximately 97% 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate and 3% 2,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate.
MC Methyl Hydroxyethyl Cellulose
Multi-purpose grade designed for formulations of tile adhesives and skim coat. It has a surface treatment which allows a delayed dissolution.
Propylene Glycol (PG) USP/EP
A high-purity grade of monopropylene glycol for use in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, personal care, flavor and fragrance, plus a variety of other applications.
RHOBARR™
An acrylic copolymer latex. RHOBARR™ 214 is designed for use in paper and board coatings offering mineral oil barrier properties as well as plasticizer resistance for thermal paper applications. It has been developed to be applied by most common aqueous coating or printing methods.
SunSpheres™ BIO SPF Booster
A high performing bio-derived and readily biodegradable SPF booster.
VORALUX™
Styrene acrylonitrile-based polyol with 43% solids content. Offers an increased solids level for the manufacture of extra hard flexible foams, whilst enabling the manufacture of low odor and reduced volatiles foams.
WALOCEL™
A modified hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (HPMC). This product was developed for cement-based applications like high quality cement-based tile adhesives.
W53 DCC
Designed for cement spray plaster applications, such as one- or two-coat cement-based plaster, cement-based lightweight plaster and exterior insulation finishing system (EIFS).
Brand solutions
DOW™ LDPE Polyethylene Resin
A low-density polyethylene suitable designed for extrusion coating applications.
ENGAGE™ Polyolefin Elastomers
An ethylene-octene copolymer that has excellent flow characteristics and performs well in a wide variety of general-purpose thermoplastic elastomer applications. Complies with ISCC Plus certification for bio-circular based.
MaizeCare™ Polymer
A bio-based polymer, derived from corn that allows flexibility in hair care styling from stiff hold to subtle definition and textures from waxes to sprays.
PRIMAL™
High solids, high-performance acrylic latex binder designed for pigmented caulks and sealants. Due to the self-thickening nature of this binder, PRIMAL™ A-920 has a lower thickener demand than other sealant binders.
RHOPLEX™
A high performance acrylic latex binder designed for sealant compounds. This 55% solids emulsion affords manufacturers a wide range of formulation latitude. Formulations based on this product exhibit excellent joint movement capability, adhesion and durability.
SoftCAT™
A premium performance cationic conditioning polymer that can give hair a softer, smoother feel than ever before, without unwanted build-up or volume-down effects.
SPECFLEX™
A unique grafted polyether polyol containing copolymerized styrene and acrylonitrile. It is designed for use in ultra-low-emission flexible molded applications, high comfort and semi flexible foams.
VORANOL™
A polypropylene glycol, propylene glycol initiated, 1000 molecular weight homopolymer diol. Specially treated for use in the production of prepolymers, adhesives for food packaging applications where low odor is required.
Related applications
Athletic and Leisure Footwear
Taking a new approach to footwear design by incorporating bio-based polymers that balance sustainability and effective performance.
Architectural Interior Coatings
Offering premium paint performance while reducing the carbon footprint of paints and coatings by using ingredients derived from nature.
Packaging
Enabling bio-based packaging through products made using bio-based feedstocks, sourced from otherwise wasted resources, such as corn stover.
Home Care, Industrial and Institutional Cleaning
Providing naturally derived cleaning formulations for the home care, industrial and institutional markets.
Personal Care Sustainability
Delivering a wide portfolio of bio-derived personal care ingredients that improve sustainability and performance.
Additional resources for bio-derived solutions
Making footwear more sustainable, ENGAGE™ REN polyolefin elastomers are produced using renewable energy and plant-based raw materials.
Coatings bio-based technology: Offering bio-based acrylic emulsions for premium paint performance.
Dow and Tito Pabón are turning plants into paint to deliver high-performance coatings.
Mass balance helps consumers get a bio-based product in the most cost-efficient way.
Combining a lower carbon footprint with a superior performance and quality finish, AFFINITY™ RE gives packaging an enhanced sustainability profile.
At Dow, we're at the forefront of sustainable innovation, launching our new Renuva™ and Ecolibrium™ propylene glycol solutions in North America.
Renuva™
Recycled content
We address the accelerating demand for recycled materials through our investments in mechanical, chemical and other advanced recycling processes. By converting waste streams into new raw materials as an alternative to fossil feedstocks, we help our customers meet their recycled content targets.
Product solutions
Dipropylene Gly LO+
A grade of dipropylene glycol developed to meet the needs of manufacturers who require consistently high quality for both fragrance and personal care products.
Dipropylene Glycol (DPG) Regular Grade
A co-product from the manufacture of monopropylene glycol, with a purity of greater than 99%. DPG is a water soluble, medium viscosity, hygroscopic liquid with a low vapor pressure.
ISONATE™ 125 M Isocyanate
This product is used in applications where its di-functionality and low acidity can advantageously yield totally linear thermoplastic urethane elastomers and elasto-plastic products.
PCR HDPE 96032 C Experimental Polyethylene Resin
A high-density polyethylene resin specifically designed for packaging applications. This resin is based on post-consumer plastic waste, delivering excellent processability and an outstanding balance between toughness and stiffness.
PCR LLDPE 95060 Experimental Polyethylene Resin
A linear low density polyethylene-rich resin specially designed for packaging applications. This product is non-food contact compliant.
Propylene Glycol (PG) USP/EP
A high-purity grade of monopropylene glycol for use in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, personal care, flavor and fragrance, plus a variety of other applications.
Tripropylene Glycol Acrylate Grade
It is a high-purity tripropylene glycol, manufactured to contain only low levels of carbonyl and peroxide compounds, making it ideal for use as a reactive chemical intermediate in the radiation-cure industry.
VORALUX™ HL500
Styrene acrylonitrile-based polyol with 43% solids content offering an increased solids level for the manufacture of extra hard flexible foams, whilst enabling the manufacture of low odor and reduced volatiles foams.
XUS 60030.01 Experimental Low Density Polyethylene
PCR-rich resin for film applications requiring improved homogeneity and consistency over other film-based PCR resin offerings. Contains 70% recycled content for secondary and tertiary film applications.
XUS 60921.01 Experimental Polyethylene Resin
These Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Polyethylene Resins are fully formulated PCR resins that incorporate 40% PCR plastics collected domestically within Asia Pacific.
XZ 89169.00 Experimental Polyethylene Resin
A low-density polyethylene (LDPE) resin with a fractional melt index especially designed for collation shrink film applications, containing 70% post-consumer recycled material.
XZ 98612.00 Experimental Polyethylene Resin
A linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) resin containing 30% post-consumer recycled material. The resin is specifically designed for fiber spinning applications, such as artificial turf yarns.
Brand solutions
REVOLOOP™
REVOLOOP™ is creating a platform for change. Partnerships around the world are increasing the quality of the waste value chain and providing a dependable, consistent flow of desirable post-consumer recycled (PCR) content.
SPECFLEX™
SPECFLEX™ innovative polyurethane solutions use a mass-balance approach with recycled feedstocks to create circular polyurethane-based products for a wide array of automotive applications.
VORANATE™
VORANATE™ Isocyanates are low viscosity polymeric Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanate (MDI) for a variety of appliance applications.
VORANOL™
VORANOL™ Polyether Polyols offer an extensive selection of performance and processing attributes. Designed to provide the balance of properties needed within rigid and molded foam and isocyanate product formulations.
Related applications
Consumer Goods
Delivering the right combination of appearance, functionality, productivity and lower costs with performance, reliability and sustainability.
Collation Shrink Packaging
Incorporate post-consumer recycled plastics and maximize performance.
Mattress Recycling Program from Renuva™
Enabling a low carbon and circular future for polyurethanes with the Mattress Recycling program.
Cosmetics Packaging
Produce stunning, high-quality cosmetics packaging with materials made using a circular feedstock produced from mixed plastic waste. This is achieved using advanced recycling technologies.
Artificial Turf
Design your high-performance turf with products rich in post-consumer recycled plastics.
Stretch Film
Protect goods in storage and transport with high-performance materials that incorporate post-consumer recycled plastics.
Additional resources for recycling solutions
Creating durable, attractive decking with recycled materials. See how AMPLIFY™ Si helps reduce energy costs and carbon footprints.
Collaborating across the value chain to give new life to old mattresses through recycling.
The materials ecosystem is unlocking the value of waste. We’re taking a systems approach to make it stronger.
The Renuva™ Program was developed by Dow as a collaborative effort to transform waste back into raw materials.
At Dow, we're at the forefront of sustainable innovation, launching our new Renuva™ and Ecolibrium™ propylene glycol solutions in North America.
Circulibrium™
Design for circularity
We create materials that can be used more efficiently and support a circular economy in applications that are designed to be recaptured, recycled and fed back into the value chain. This helps our customers contribute to circularity, reducing volume in landfills while creating value for the next generation.
Product solutions
BYNEL™ 41E710 Adhesive Resin
Anhydride-modified, linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) resin. It has a higher level of anhydride modification and is mainly intended for use as a component in a blend with other polyolefin resins.
EVERCAP™
Excellent HDPE resin produced through innovative technology, to offer an ideal balance between strength, stiffness and processability. Ideal for “open-close” lid application for food, hygiene, and personal care markets.
RHOBARR™ 325 Barrier Dispersion
Low-odor, aqueous barrier dispersion designed to provide excellent barrier to hot and cold liquids.
Brand solutions
AFFINITY™
AFFINITY™ Polyolefin Plastomers offer excellent sealability, great abuse resistance, and brilliant optics. It translates into advanced sealant performance for just about any packaging application.
ELITE™
Medium density polyethylene, ethylene-octene copolymer produced using Dow's INSITE™ technology, with an excellent balance between stiffness and toughness. Excellent processability.
INNATE™
A breakthrough patented molecular catalyst and advanced process technology makes it happen. Accurate and consistent control of the resin chemistry allows performance levels and combinations of film properties like never before.
RETAIN™
A functional polymer which promotes compatibilization between polyolefins and polar polymers such as ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) and polyamide (Nylon) and blends of polar polymers.
Explore our Circulibrium™ case study library
The material ecosystem: Chapter 1
Eco-conscious consumers: How purchasing power drives systems change.
The material ecosystem: Chapter 2
It starts with design: How circularity ‘by design’ is accelerating.
The material ecosystem: Chapter 3
Finding value in waste: Signs of progress in waste collection and recycling.
The material ecosystem: Chapter 4
Material origins: How inventive recovery technologies are transforming more used plastics into high-value waste.
The Paper Cup Challenge
Dow’s RHOBARR™ 320 Barrier Dispersion enables up to 99% fiber recovery from paper cups, supporting circular economy goals. By reducing waste, improving recyclability, and lowering water and material usage, Dow delivers sustainable solutions for manufacturers, consumers, and the planet.
Related applications
Packaging
Helping brands design for recyclability, considering every aspect of a package’s life in relationship to our environment and a circular economy.
Mobility
Helping customers design for circularity with our integrated, full-vehicle-lifecycle approach to meet challenges for light weighting, battery life, thermal management and more.
Immersion Cooling Fluids
Improving sustainability and efficiency of data centers with award-winning DOWSIL™ silicone-organic immersion cooling fluid technology.
Additional resources for circularity solutions
Through collaboration across the value chain, we demonstrate that high-quality barrier pouch-to-pouch recycling is possible.
VORAMER™ Polyurethane Binders are suitable for several applications including playground surfaces and running tracks.
Unveiling circular solutions and sustainable innovations, we're thrilled to partner for a greener future in materials science.
Returna™
Biodegradability
These biodegradable materials break down into naturally occurring substances to reduce the impact of human activity on ecosystems. Our approach combines innovative advantages with technological best practices, enabling our customers to utilize biodegradable materials while maintaining performance.
Product solutions
Butoxypolyglycol (BPG)
An E-Series glycol ether used in brake fluids, mining fluids, asphalt additive, dust suppressant, heat captive fluids, coatings, and concrete anti-shrinking agent reduces surface tension and minimizes shrinkage/cracking as water evaporates from concrete.
Butoxytriglycol (BTG)
A low-volatility, high solvency glycol ether with excellent coupling properties. Used in drilling fluids, brake fluids, coatings and cleaners.
Butyl CARBITOL™ Solvent
A slow-evaporating, hydrophilic glycol ether with excellent coalescing and coupling power that offers strong solvency and chemical stability for a broad array of household products.
Butyl CELLOSOLVE™ Solvent
A fast-evaporating glycol ether with an excellent balance of hydrophilic and hydrophobic character; excellent active solvency and coupling properties. It is a versatile solvent product with balance properties.
CARBITOL™ Solvent, Low Gravity
Solvent used to facilitate penetration into fibers and to promote the production of intense, bright shades; it features a high boiling point and low vapor pressure.
Ethoxypolyglycol (EPG)
A high boiling glycol ether.
Ethoxytriglycol (ETG)
A low-volatility, high solvency glycol ether with excellent coupling properties. The product's versatility is demonstrated by the variety of applications in which it may find use.
Isopentanoic Acid, Mixed Isomers
A pungent, colorless to water-white liquid.
Isopropyl Acetate, 99%
A colorless liquid with an aromatic, fruity odor. It is moderately soluble in water.
Isopropyl Acetate, High Purity
A colorless liquid with an aromatic, fruity odor. It is moderately soluble in water. This grade has a higher puirty specification.
Propionic Acid, Formulating Grade
A colorless pungent smelling liquid, miscible with water and almost all normal organic solvents. Applications are dye intermediates, textile and rubber auxiliaries, plastics, and plasticizers.
Propyl Acetate
A colorless, volatile solvent with an odor similar to acetone, possessing good solvency power for many natural and synthetic resins.
Brand solutions
CARBOWAX™ Polyethylene Glycols
CARBOWAX™ SENTRY™ Polyethylene Glycols
Diisopropanolamine (DIPA)
DOWANOL™ Glycol Ethers
DOWFAX™ Nonionic and Anionic Surfactants
ECOSURF™ Surfactants
Polyglycol
TERGITOL™ Surfactants
Triethylene Glycol
TRITON™ Surfactants
UCAR™ Glycols, Solvents and Latex Emulsions
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Success with UCON™ Trident™ 32 AW Hydraulic Fluid
The barge dock hydraulic crane in Texas City switched from ISO 32 mineral oil to UCON Trident 32 AW Hydraulic Fluid in 1995 to address environmental concerns. Since then, it has operated without issues, eliminating oil sheens and showing excellent performance, leading to further conversions.
UCON Lubricant Cleans Gas Storage Formation Improving Flow
A Gulf Coast gas storage facility switched from mineral oil-based lubricants to UCON Compressor Lubricant R-1, reducing downhole fouling and sludge formation. This change eliminated the need for chemical treatments, saving $150,000 annually and improved compressor reliability and flow rates by 10-15%.
Related applications
Hair Care
Offering innovative biodegradable ingredients for hair care formulations, along with application expertise to help you develop high-performing products for eco-conscious consumers.
Skin Care
Helping brand owners develop innovative skin care solutions, including bio-based and biodegradable ingredients that are safe for people and the planet.
Sun Care
Delivering the award-winning SunSpheres™ BIO SPF Booster, a bio-derived and readily biodegradable sun care solution that is safe for consumers and the oceans.
Home Care Sustainability
Collaborating across the value chain to develop high-value formulations for home care products, including biodegradable solutions that offer sustainability and performance.
Additional resources for biodegradable solutions
ECollaboration Concepts: formulations that inspire a holistic and circular approach to beauty ingredients and packaging.
SunSpheres™ BIO SPF Booster: A bio-derived and readily biodegradable solution for SPF boosters that enables greater SPF efficiency in sun care.
Innovative Surfactants: A portfolio of innovative nonionic, anionic and low-foam surfactants that reduce our environmental impact.
MaizeCare™ Kit: Discover formulations for MaizeCare™, a bio-based polymer derived from corn that allows flexibility in hair care styling.
Resoursa™
Resource efficiency
We design materials that help our customers improve efficiency and reduce usage of critical resources such as water and energy in their processes. Working with our partners, we aim to enhance the use-phase benefits of our products while raising the bar on how to optimize manufacturing.
Product solutions
AXELERON™ FO 6548 BK Telecom Cable Compound
A MDPE cable jacket compound delivering superior stress-crack, deformation, weather resistance and toughness, and extrusion processing for fiber optic cable.
DOW™ DFDA-3642 NT LLDPE Resin for LV Insulation
Hexene-copolymer LLDPE designed for low voltage cable applications. It is intended for use in a one-step (monosil®) or two-step (Sioplas®) process in unfilled or filled (such as HFFR) systems.
DOW™ HDPE DGDA-2426 NT Bimodal Polyethylene Resin
A high-density polyethylene resin material available in North America for profile extrusion and use as a processing aid.
DOW™ TCP-2495 NT High Density Polyethylene Resin
This is produced using UNIPOL™ process technology and is specifically designed for use in all duct and cable in conduit (CIC) applications for both telecommunications and power cables.
ENDURANCE™ HFDK-4201 SC Compound for Cable Systems
Long-life, unfilled, crosslinkable, low density, super clean polyethylene insulation compound developed especially for the insulation of high voltage power cables.
EVOQUE™ 2360 DS Polymer
Paints containing this product can be formulated with less TiO2 and maintain very good hiding. This leads to cost savings and possibly, an improved sustainability profile via lower resource use and lower carbon emissions in the lifecycle of paints.
ROPAQUE™ ULTRA E SLF Opaque Polymer
One of the most advanced polymeric opacifiers engineered to improve the efficiency of TiO2. It helps lower the consumption of TiO2, reduce the cost of all types of water-borne paints and improve paint performance.
TUFLIN™ HS-7098F NT 7 Linear Low Density Polyethylene Resin
An ethylene-hexene copolymer, linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) resin designed for cast and blown film applications such as trash bags, industrial can liners, and retail bags.
WALOCEL™ M 120-01 Cellulose Ether
A modified hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose (HEMC) developed for cement-based applications, like cement-based tile adhesives. It imparts adhesion, shear strength, good workability, open time, and enhances water retention.
XUS 81841.27 Experimental Polyethylene Resin
A cast film polyethylene medium density resin designed to improve processing and performance for both breathable and non-breathable backsheet resins in hygiene applications.
Brand solutions
CONTINUUM™ Bimodal Polyethylene Resins
CONTINUUM™ Resins, made using UNIPOL™ II Technology, offer increased polymer design flexibility, a broad molecular weight range, and a wider range of high-performance characteristics.
DOWLEX™ Polyethylene Resins
DOWLEX™ Resins are a high performance LLDPE for cast stretch delivering unprecedented balance of properties (m-LLDPE like) with recognized consistency and processability.
DOWSIL™
A low VOC silicone resin emulsion designed for waterborne coating systems. Provides a superior high temperature resistance at 500°C and above, as well as an elevated coating hardness.
ELITE™ Enhanced Polyethylene Resins
ELITE™ Resins are linear low density metallocene copolymer produced by INSITE™ Technology, processable in cast film mono- and coextrusion equipment designed for polyethylene.
ENGAGE™ Polyolefin Elastomers
ENGAGE™ Resins are ethylene-butene copolymers that offers excellent performance in photovoltaic module encapsulant applications.
PRIMAL™ Emulsion
A suitable binder for formulating concrete and fibre cement roof tile paints and other coatings where good exterior durability is needed.
Related applications
Pulp and Paper Processing Aids
Increasing efficiency and reducing environmental impact in pulp and paper processing with new-generation antifoams.
Building Energy Efficiency
Delivering a full range of silicone-based solutions to help optimize energy efficiency in new construction and renovations.
Packaging
Offering lightweight and downgauged packaging solutions that deliver the same performance while helping reduce waste and save energy.
Home Care, Industrial & Institutional Cleaning
Delivering efficiency, multifunctional performance and sustainability with innovative cleaning products.
Household Appliances
Increasing energy efficiency in household refrigerators and freezers by reducing their carbon footprint by 10% with PASCAL™ technology.
Commercial Appliances Insulation
Helping keep food fresh using polyurethane solutions to improve thermal insulation and lower global warming.
Additional resources for resource efficiency solutions
Silicone Foam Control for Laundry: Learn why compact formulations for laundry detergents bring big advantages.
DOWSIL™ 8016 Waterborne Resin: Waterborne silicone resin, 100% solvent free.
Immersing the Cloud in sustainability with DOWSIL™ Immersion Cooling Technology.
Building stronger connections for telecommunications conduit and microduct applications.
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