Corporate description
Dow is a diversified chemical company that harnesses the power of science and technology to improve living daily. The company
offers a range of innovative products and services to customers in more than 175 countries, helping them to provide everything
from fresh water, food, and pharmaceuticals to paints, packaging, and personal care products. Built on a commitment to its
principles of sustainability, Dow has annual sales of $46 billion and employs 42,000 people worldwide. References to "Dow"
or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted.
Technical services
Dow offers a range of services in excipient technology, chemical manufacturing, and formulation technology capabilities for
intermediates, active compounds, stabilizers, and functional ingredients. Dow's emerging excipient technologies include foamed binder granulation, melt extrusion and melt coating, oral film delivery,
and excipient polymers for hard-shell capsules. Conventional excipient technologies include aqueous-and solvent-based controlled
release, granulation, tablet coating, liquid systems, mucosal bioadhesives, suppositories, and many others. Visit http://www.dowexcipients.com/.
Dowpharma Contract Manufacturing Services manufactures small-molecule APIs and intermediates, catalysts, CGMP polymers, oligonucleotides,
and poly(ethylene) glycols (PEGs) and provides microbial fermentation technology (Pseudomonas-based "Pfenex Expression Technology")
for protein expression. Dowpharma draws upon 30+ years of relevant CGMP compliance and can provide client support in regulatory
filing and validation strategies. Visit http://www.dowpharma.com/.
Additional Dow capabilities include expertise in hydrogen cyanide chemistry, nitroparaffin chemistry, and radiopharmaceutical
technologies.
Facilities
Dow operates more than 230 manufacturing facilities in 38 countries, including five CGMP API and intermediate and biologics
production and research facilities in the United States and Europe.
Major products- excipients, including "METHOCEL" and "ETHOCEL" cellulose ethers, "POLYOX" water-soluble Resins NF, and "CARBOWAX" "SENTRY"
polyethylene glycols;
- functional emulsifiers, humectants, and viscosifiers, including alkanolamines, ethanolamines, "OPTIM" Glycerin, NF-grade polyethylene
glycols, and polyacrylates;
- chelating agents, including "VERSENE" chelating agents and specialty chelants;
- advanced intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients available through pharmaceutical services, including HCN and
nitroparaffin derivatives.
Markets served
Dow offers technologies, services, and ingredient materials appropriate for branded ethical pharmaceuticals, generic drugs,
over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and supplements.
The Dow Chemical Company
PO Box 1206
Midland, MI 48642-1206
TELEPHONE
800.447.4369
989.832.1560
FAX
989.832.1465
WEB SITE
http://www.dow.com/
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
42,000
Date Founded
1897