Dow Oxygenated Solvents Signs Agreement with Chemidex Cybrary

28-Oct-2000

Midland, Mich. - October 27, 2000 - The Dow Chemical Oxygenated solvents Business announced today its participation in the Chemidex Cybrary. The agreement is part of the Oxygenated Solvents business' commitment to the Dow customer interface initiatives such as exploring and utilizing new electronic channels to market.

"This is one more 'closer to the customer' initiative for our business," says Pat Dawson, vice president Oxide Derivatives, and business director for Oxygenated Solvents. "We're meeting some vital customer interface objectives by continually aligning resources with our strategic customers. The Cybrary allows our formulator customers assess to our full product range where we're confident they will find the right solutions to their formulation problems. Our goal to make it effortless to do business with Dow"

The Chemidex Cybrary is an information resource designed to supply specific product information to paint and coatings formulators. It provides an easy way to search product attributes of the raw materials by company name, product type, keyword, or physical property. Through the Cybrary (www.chemidex.com), the Dow Oxygenated Solvents business will provide information on its DOWANOL* E-series and P-series glycol ether products directly to coatings formulators.

"We're going into the Chemidex Cybrary with the clear goal of having a major presence on the site," says Ralf Brinkmann, marketing manager, Dow North America. "We have the broadest glycol ether product line and technical information for formulators to search, and we view this as a means for saving customers time in resolving their formulation problems. As many of our customers request this information, we've set out to make it more convenient for them."

"We're excited that the Cybrary can now provide formulators with access to Dow's top quality product line," says Bruce Ianni, business manager, Chemidex. "Bringing Dow products and coatings formulators together in a common raw materials market-space is a win-win situation."

Dow is a leading science and technology company that provides innovative chemical, plastic and agricultural products and services to many essential consumer markets. With annual sales of $19 billion, Dow serves customers in 162 countries and a wide range of markets that are vital to human progress, including food, transportation, health and medicine, personal and home care, and building and construction, among others. Committed to the principles of sustainable development, Dow and its 39,000 employees seek to balance economic, environmental and social responsibilities.

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