Dow Chemical Company

Dow to Shut Down Three Upstream European Assets

Building on the April 2025 announcement, Dow will take actions across its three operating segments to support European profitability, resulting in the closure of sites in Germany and the UK.

Dow Sells its 50% Ownership in DowAksa

Dow announced that it has signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell its 50% interest in DowAksa to Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.Ş., a company of Akkök Holding.

Dow Acquires Polyethylene Recycler Circulus

Dow has signed an agreement to acquire US company Circulus, a recycler of plastic waste into post-consumer resin (PCR). The transaction includes two facilities, one in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and another in Arab, Alabama, with a total capacity of 50,000 metric tons per year. Dow expects the transaction to close in the third quarter of 2024, subject to customary regulatory approval.

Dow to Build World-Scale Carbonate Solvents Facility on US Gulf Coast

Dow announced its intent to build a world-scale carbonate solvents production facility for lithium-ion battery production on the US Gulf Coast. The plant will serve customers in the lithium-ion battery sector, in which carbonate solvents are used as a component in electrolytes.

Air Liquide and Dow Renew Supply Deal for German Site

Air Liquide and Dow renewed their industrial gas supply agreement for Dow’s chemical production site in Stade, Germany. Under the long-term agreement, Air Liquide will supply industrial gases and invest almost €40 million in modernizing its facilities to increase operational efficiency and reduce CO₂ emissions.

Dow Starts Operations at New Freeport MDI Plant

Dow has started operations of its new MDI distillation and prepolymers facility at its US manufacturing site in Freeport, Texas.

Dow and New Energy Blue in Bio-ethylene Deal

Dow has entered into a long-term agreement with New Energy Blue for the supply of bio-based ethylene from agricultural residues in North America.

Dow to Deploy Nuclear Reactors at Texas Site

In an as yet unusual move for a chemical producer, Dow plans to build what it said is a “first set” of small modular nuclear reactors at its Seadrift, Texas, site south of Houston, in partnership with Maryland-based nuclear developer X-Energy Reactor Co.

Dow Links with Linde for Canada Cracker Project

Dow has selected Linde to supply clean hydrogen and nitrogen for its proposed net-zero carbon emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada.

Fluor Wins Work on Dow Canada Cracker Complex

US-based international contractor Fluor has been awarded a reimbursable contract to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) and engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for Dow’s proposed cracker and derivatives project in Canada.

EPA Proposes $5.4 Million Contamination Settlement with Dow

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a $5.4 million historic settlement with chemical giant Dow to cover its dioxin pollution cleanup efforts resulting from the company’s contamination of waterways dating back to the 19th century.

Dow and Al-Hejailan in Saudi MDEA Venture

Dow and Saudi family business Al-Hejailan Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture to design, build and operate a methyl diethanolamine (MDEA) plant in PlasChem Park in Jubail.

Dow Takes Stake in German LNG Terminal

With all European energy discussions now focusing on dramatic cuts in supplies of Russian gas, Dow Chemical is taking an undisclosed minority stake in an import terminal for US liquefied natural gas (LNG) that is planned to be built on its own chemical complex at Stade on the German North Sea coast.

Topsoe and Dow Partner on Chemical Recycling

Haldor Topsoe is partnering Dow to accelerate development of chemical recycling technology that converts hard-to-recycle waste plastics into pyrolysis oil feedstock. The Danish group will support the design and engineering of a 10,000 t/y market-development, or pilot, unit to be built at Dow’s site in Terneuzen, the Netherlands.

Dow Taking Big Steps toward Circularity

US chemical giant Dow is pressing ahead with several projects aimed at delivering $3 billion in underlying EBITDA growth as it progresses toward carbon neutrality and circularity. Along with its just announced net-zero carbon emissions ethylene and derivatives complex in Canada, the Midland, Michigan-based group will launch a line of circular plastic solutions and expand its chemical recycling capability.

Dow Plans Net-Zero Cracker Complex in Canada

Dow has announced plans to build what it regards as the world’s first net-zero carbon emissions ethylene and derivatives complex at its Fort Saskatchewan site in Alberta, Canada. The project, to go on onstream by 2030, will add roughly 1.8 million t/y of ethylene capacity and 3.2 million t/y of PE and ethylene derivatives.

Dow Hikes Louisiana Methyl Acrylate Capacity

Dow is investing an undisclosed sum in its methyl acrylate production to meet growing demand both in North America and worldwide. The project at its St Charles operations in Hahnville, Louisiana, USA, will add 50,000 t/y of capacity by the first half of 2022. Dow said the extra output will “enable global growth with a focus on supplying North American demand.”

Dow Aiming to Rebuild Plastics Portfolio?

Dow may revive an earlier expansion project that would add 600,000 t/y of LLDPE capacity on the US Gulf Coast, CEO Jim Fitterling said during a conference call with journalists last week to present second quarter financial results.

Dow Plans Series of Plant Expansions

Dow has announced a series of “incremental, high-return” capacity expansions around the world to support fast-growing demand across key end-markets.

Dow and Shell E-Cracker Project Secures Funds, Partners

Dow and Shell have secured funding from the Dutch government and are also linking up with two research organizations to accelerate progress in the joint cracker electrification development program that they announced about a year ago. The technology has the potential to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from one of the chemical industry’s most central processes.

Dow Plans MDI Plant in Texas, USA

Dow is planning to build an integrated methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) distillation and prepolymers plant at its site in Freeport, Texas, USA, to support rising demand from the downstream polyurethane (PU) sector.

Aramco and Dow Amend Sadara Agreement

Saudi Aramco and Dow have amended the shareholders agreement for their Sadara Chemical joint venture with the partners taking on direct responsibility for marketing their shares of the output.

Dow Plans China Specialties Hub

Dow has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee (Zhanjiang EDZ) to build the Dow South China Specialties Hub, a multi-year project providing customers local access to its products and technologies.

Expert Statement: Ralf Brinkmann, Dow Germany

The European Chemical Industry has set out on an ambitious path to become carbon neutral.

Dow and JM Win China IP Case

Dow and Johnson Matthey (JM) have won a second court case in China over infringement of their jointly owned LP Oxo technology for producing oxo-alcohols.

Dow Sketches Rationalization Plans

Following up earlier announcements with few detailed disclosures, Dow has now sketched out moves it plans to take to deliver on its envisioned structural cost improvement targets. The US chemical producer, which emerged from the behemoth DowDuPont somewhat trimmed down from its pre-merger status, said the aim is to” further enhance its long-term competitiveness as the global economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.”

Dow Sells US Gulf Coast Terminals

Dow is selling its three industrial terminals on the US Gulf Coast to a new 50:50 joint venture of Royal Vopak and BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund for $620 million. The terminals, with a total combined capacity of 825,000 cubic meters, are at Freeport, Texas and St. Charles and Plaquemine in Louisiana.

Dow Plans to Cut Workforce by 6%

US chemicals and plastics producer Dow plans to cut its workforce by 6% in response to the coronavirus crisis, CEO Jim Fitterling said on July 23 while presenting financial results for Q2 2020. The plans, he said, reflect management’s expectations of an uneven recovery from the ongoing pandemic.

Dow and Shell Link on Cracker Electrification

Dow and Johnson Matthey Win China INA Deal

Dow Hikes Canada Ethylene Output

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