The Dow Chemical Co

The Dow Chemical Co

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Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company is driving innovations that extract value from the intersection of chemical, physical and biological sciences to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 180 countries and in high growth sectors such as packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2013, Dow had annual sales of more than $57 billion and employed approximately 53,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 6,000 products are manufactured at 201 sites in 36 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at www.dow.com.
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2010
22 Nov 2010

Control system for electric aircraft

Bye Energy an integrator of alternative energy technologies is poised to provide the aviation community with a safe, economical, efficient, and quiet, low-emission "green" aircraft propulsion alternative to the internal combustion engine through an electric hybrid propulsion system (EHPS).
7 Oct 2010

Sakti3 Third generation batteries backed

Earlier this year, the University of Michigan traction battery spinoff Sakti3, inc. announced $7 million in second round of venture funding led by capital firm Beringea, in addition to Khosla. Now G.M. Ventures has invested $3.2 Million in the company. Vloet/University of Michigan Professor Ann Marie Sastry of the University of Michigan is chief executive of Sakti3.
4 Oct 2010

Winning EnerDel strategy?

Lithium polymer construction - whatever the cathode chemistry - is also taking market share because it can have lightweight plastic casing and tolerate high pressure and it is highly unlikely to leak.
11 Aug 2010

Hybrid and pure electric tugboats

In 2008, GE and the C-MAR Group partnered to develop new hybrid technology for tugboats.
9 Aug 2010

Aveso raises $1million for electro-active display technology

Aveso, a spin-out from The Dow Chemical Company, has recently raised $1,040,000 in equity financing according to a document filed with the SEC.
15 Jul 2010

Pure electric manned aircraft: Ukraine, Europe

In previous articles in EVR we have described the new electric stunt plane from EADS in France and the production pure electric sport plane from in China. Here we wind the clock back a little to show how the early work on pure electric aircraft is spawning many other very different aircraft, a common factor being the use of lightweight lithium polymer batteries that need no metal enclosure.
6 May 2010

IDTechEx exhibiting at SID later this month

Visit IDTechEx at our booth at SID (1309), where you will have a chance to speak with the IDTechEx team as well as the opportunity to discuss specific developments with our analysts.
7 Apr 2010

Dow Corning and imec collaborate on solar cells

Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, signed a three-year contract with imec to perform joint research on next generations of crystalline silicon solar cells.
15 Mar 2010

Printing large batteries

170 years ago, Faraday appreciated the different electrical properties of nano gold over bulk metal in electrical devices, so applying nanotechnology to these things is scarcely new. However, the huge sums now being applied to improvement of lithium traction batteries in particular are now leading to work on a much larger scale and thin film technology, nanotechnology and printing are in increasingly important part of this.
11 Mar 2010

Lithium vehicle traction batteries and harvesting

The conference of about 40 people "Lithium Battery Technology and System Development" in London 9 March 2010 was concerned with "breaking barriers for electric vehicles".
2 Feb 2010

Cymbet secures $31 million in private financing

Cymbet Corporation has announced that it has successfully completed the final phase of its third round of private equity financing, raising $31 million.
8 Jan 2010

QUE pro-Reader aimed at the business professional

Plastic Logic's long awaited "QUE" pro-Reader was unveiled at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday. Unlike other e-readers this device is being marketed to the business professional.
2009
16 Nov 2009

Dow and Caltech's next generation photovoltaics research initiative

The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announced that they had recently signed a multi-year research collaboration that is strategic to both organizations' interests in solar energy.
2 Nov 2009

How to improve lithium traction batteries

Dependence on increasingly troublesome oil supplies and rapid degradation of the environment provide every reason why electric cars, whether hybrid or pure electric, should now be adopted rapidly.
14 Aug 2009

Flood of traction battery money will benefit harvesting

The world is putting over $50 million in government funding into electric cars and the Obama administration is also putting a large sum into the enabling technologies, particularly batteries.
27 May 2009

New solar wafer factory

SolarWorld AG will be celebrating the topping-out ceremony of its new production facility for solar silicon wafers in Freiberg's Industrial Estate East with the Prime Minister of Saxony, Stanislaw Tillich, and many guests from the region and from local industry.
2008
1 Dec 2008

Wider interest in printed electronics

At a time of financial uncertainty, companies know they must accelerate their move into the future. That is why there is a huge interest in printed electronics, a subject that pushes all the right buttons - environmental, affordable and leading to a new market of $300 billion that is just there for the taking. That is why the giant corporations are attending Printed Electronics USA, December 3-4 in San Jose, California.
31 Jul 2008

Chemicals for printed electronics - Huge new market

Chemical companies have huge opportunities in the new world of printed electronics.
15 Jul 2008

New strategy for printed electronics

It is now generally accepted that the printed electronics is headed to be a business of the order of $300 billion yearly in about twenty years time.
14 Jul 2008

Dow acquires Rohm and Haas

$18.8 billion transaction marks pivotal point in Dow's transformation