Dow Italia was established in Italy in 1960. A key player of the chemical industry in Italy, Dow can count on a solid structure of production plants as well as a Global R&D Center of Polyurethanes in Correggio. Dow combines science and technology knowledge to develop premier materials science solutions that are essential to human progress. Dow has one of the strongest and broadest toolkits in the industry, with robust technology, asset integration, scale and competitive capabilities that enable it to address complex global issues. Dow’s market-driven, industry-leading portfolio of advanced materials, industrial intermediates, and plastics businesses deliver a broad range of differentiated technology-based products and solutions for customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, and consumer care. Dow is a subsidiary of DowDuPont (NYSE: DWDP), a holding company comprised of Dow and DuPont with the intent to form three strong, independent, publicly traded companies in agriculture, materials science and specialty sectors. More information can be found at www.dow.com.
The Company connects chemistry and innovation with the sustainability (www.dow.com/sustainability) to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, renewable energy generation, energy efficiency, and increasing agricultural productivity. DOW's diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agro-sciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products (www.dow.com/products) and solutions (www.dowsustainability.com ) to customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as building and construction, electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture.
In 2011, DOW had annual sales of $60 billion and employed approximately 52,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 197 sites in 36 countries across the globe. DOW operates in Italy as of 1960. The several legal of TDCC in Italy, with about 760 employees, and an annual turnover of 1.084 million euro in 2011, have production sites located throughout the Country. Italian Head Offices of DOW are based in Milan. http://www.dow.com