The Dow Chemical Company
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The Dow Chemical Company Company Profile

The Tao of Dow Chemical lies within its integrated production of plastics, chemicals, hydrocarbons, and agrochemicals. The largest chemical company in the US and #2 worldwide behind BASF, Dow also makes performance plastics (engineering plastics, polyurethanes, and materials) for Dow Automotive. It uses chlorine-based and hydrocarbon-based raw materials to make 5,000 finished chemical products at 197 sites in 36 countries. The maker of Styrofoam insulation also is the world's #1 producer of chlorine and caustic soda, and a top maker of ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride monomer (used in making alumina, pulp and paper, soaps, and in construction). Dow also owns 50% of silicone products maker Dow Corning.