Dow Supports Demands in the Middle East as World’s Largest Supplier of Coatings Raw Materials and Technologies
The Dow Chemical Company, a leading science and technology company, today unveiled the newly-formed Dow Coatings Materials. Combining the technologies and resources of both Dow and recently-acquired Rohm & Haas, the new business is the leading supplier of architectural paints and industrial coatings raw materials in the world.
“As the world’s largest and most technologically-advanced developer of raw materials for the coatings industry, our primary focus is to enable the coatings innovations of both today and tomorrow,” Zuhair Allawi, Commercial Director, Dow Chemical India, Middle East & Africa (IMEA) said. “Dow Coatings Materials offers a wide range of solutions to address performance needs in the Middle East and North Africa, regions with highly diversified weather environments. Be it sand, snow, rain or humidity, our portfolio is designed to counter the harsh weather conditions of the Middle East and North Africa,” added Mr. Allawi.
Following the acquisition, Dow Coatings Materials provides a wide range of chemistries and support across many different product lines, including core binder technologies such as latex emulsions (acrylics, vinyl acrylics, styrene acrylics, etc), epoxies and other polymer technologies. Additionally, the business offers a strong portfolio of rheology modifiers, including HASE, HEUR and cellulosic-based products.
The company will also leverage many other product lines within Dow to provide the best possible solution to coating formulators. These include biocides, acrylic monomers, surfactants, polyurethanes, and many others.
This access to diverse products, technologies and expertise across diverse coatings applications will enable Dow Coatings Materials to aggressively research new solutions and work with customers to identify the technologies they need to meet specific industry needs, such as: reducing environmental impact; improving environmental durability (e.g. UV stability, corrosion resistance, dirt pickup resistance); reducing application and life cycle costs; enabling “smart” coating functionality and many others.
“With global R&D centers around the world and access to powerful tools such as High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE) methods, Dow Coatings Materials offers the industry a unique resource unlike any it has ever seen,” Mr. Allawi explained.
In addition, the newly-combined business assets of Dow Coatings Materials provides customers access to a significantly enhanced business support network, including production facilities and supply capabilities in every major geography where the company does business.
For more information, please visit www.dow.com/coating
About Dow
Dow is a diversified chemical company that combines the power of science and technology with the “Human Element” to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. The Company delivers a broad range of products and services to customers in approximately 160 countries, connecting chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help provide everything from fresh water, food and pharmaceuticals to paints, packaging and personal care products. In 2008, Dow had annual sales of $57.5 billion and employed approximately 46,000 people worldwide. The Company has 150 manufacturing sites in 35 countries and produces approximately 3,300 products. On April 1, 2009, Dow acquired Rohm and Haas Company, a global specialty materials company with sales of $10 billion in 2008, 98 manufacturing sites in 30 countries and approximately 15,000 employees worldwide.
About Dow in the Middle East
Dow has several current and proposed Middle East joint ventures in the UAE, Egypt, Kuwait and Libya as well as in Saudi Arabia, where Saudi Aramco and Dow are in the formation process of a joint venture to build, own and operate a world-scale chemicals and plastics production complex in the Eastern Province. From the opening of its first commercial office in Cairo in the early 1970’s to its facility in Jebel Ali in Dubai and its 10-year partnership in Kuwait with EQUATE, Dow has managed to establish a solid presence in the Middle East petrochemicals industry. For more information about Dow Chemical in the Middle East, please visit www.dow.com/imea/me
