intended Agriculture company to bring a
broader suite of products to the market
faster, so it can be an even better partner
to growers, delivering innovation and
helping them to increase their productivity and profitability.
The intended company will be headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware with
global business centers in Johnston, Iowa,
and Indianapolis.
A leading Materials Science Company
that will be the premier materials science
solution provider, with the vast major-
ity of its sales aligned with three nar-
rower and deeper, high-growth market
verticals: packaging, infrastructure and
consumer care. With one of the strongest
and deepest toolkits in the industry, the
intended company will have robust tech-
nology and asset integration, scale and
competitive capabilities to enable truly
differentiated materials science solutions
for customers. The intended company
will consist of three powerful, market-
leading segments:
Performance Materials & Coatings,
which combines a broad range of tech-
nology platforms that empower its
customers to: create ingredients and
solutions with exceptional performance
and process enhancements for home and
beauty care applications; and develop
solutions that advance the performance
of architectural and industrial coatings.
Industrial Intermediates &
Infrastructure, which develops solutions
that enable unique properties in manu-
facturing processes, infrastructure mar-
kets and downstream finished goods. The
technologies in this business unit: deliver
innovative solutions that enable the tap-
ping of oil and gas resources; optimize
manufacturing with additives that mini-
mize friction and heat in mechanical pro-
cesses, manage the oil-water interface and
facilitate dissolvability; advance energy
efficiency solutions in white goods; and
enable infrastructure material properties
through unique modifiers and additives.
Packaging & Specialty Plastics, which
represents one of the world’s deepest and
most differentiated performance plastics
portfolios. The solutionsand technologies
in this unit: address consumer and brand
owner demand for increased packaging
convenience; reduce food waste; and ad-
vance the global development of telecom-
munications and electrical transmission
and distribution infrastructure.
The intended company will maintain the
Dow brand and will be headquartered in
Midland, Mich.
A leading Specialty Products Company
that will be a customer-driven innovation
leader composed of technology-based
differentiated materials, ingredients, and
solutions that transform industries and
everyday life. The intended company will
apply its market knowledge and deep
expertise in science and application de-
velopment to solve customer needs in
distinct markets, including electronics,
transportation, building and construc-
tion, health and wellness, food and safety.
The intended company will consist of
four market-leading segments:
Electronics & Imaging, the world’s
largest supplier with the broadest set
of materials and technologies to solve
complex problems for the semiconduc-
tor, circuit board, photovoltaic, display
and flexographic printing industries that
enable the next generation of connectiv-
ity and functionality, as well as the con-
vergence of electronic capabilities into
everyday life, such as autonomous and
electric vehicles.
Transportation & Advanced Polymers,
an industry leader providing high-per-
formance engineering resins, adhesives,
lubricants and parts to engineers and de-
signers in the transportation, electronics
and medical markets to enable integrated
materials solutions for demanding appli-
cations and environments.
Safety & Construction, a global lead-
er and trusted partner with category-
leading, proprietary branded products
including high-performance fibers and
foams, aramid papers, non-woven struc-
tures, membranes and filtration technolo-
gies and protective garments serving the
construction, worker safety, energy, oil
& gas, transportation, water purification
and medical markets.
Nutrition & Biosciences, a market
leader and technology pioneer collabo-
rating with customers in food, pharma
and personal care markets, utilizing natu-
rally sourced ingredients and bioscience
capabilities, including protein
and microbial engineering and
industrial-scale fermentation,
to create higher performing,
healthier and more sustainable offerings
(such as probiotics, enzymes, antimicro-
bial technologies, pharma excipients and
biomaterials).
The intended company will be headquar-
tered in Wilmington, Del.
INEOS Building New 300kt
Vinyl Acetate Monomer
(VAM) Plant
INEOS said it will be spending “hundreds
of millions of Euros” to build a new 300kt
vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant.
The company said it is completing an
engineering study, which will also help decide on the location: Saltend, Hull (UK),
Koln, Germany or Antwerp, Belgium.
Shin-Etsu Chemical to
Expand Silicones Production
Capacity in the U.S.
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. announced
plans to expand the production capacity of its Akron, Ohio plant, Shin-Etsu
Silicones of America (SESA), which is engaged in the manufacturing and sales of
silicones. The company is investing ¥2.4
billion in the facility, and the work is expected to be completed mid-2019.
SESA’s Akron Plant produced various
silicone products that can be used in variety of applications such as high consistency silicone rubber, liquid silicone rubber
for adhesives and sealing materials, silicones for cosmetics and heat-dissipating
silicones for applications in automobiles
and electronics parts. According to the
firm, this new investment is for the purpose of expanding its production capacity
for these silicone products and additionally to set up a new production facility
for silicone emulsions.
SESA is the North American base of
Shin-Etsu Chemical’s silicones business.
In addition to the silicone products being
made at its Akron plant, SESA’s Freeport,
Texas produced organo-functional silane.
Shin-Etsu also opened a Technical Center
in New Jersey in 2015, as the company is
continuing to focus on the expansion of
its silicones business. CW
