Update: September 8, 2021
Our thoughts remain with all those impacted by the storm. Team Dow is wholly focused on ensuring the safety of our colleagues, our operations and our communities as we continue progressing through recovery and restart.
- Our Louisiana Operations in Plaquemine has begun bringing operations back online as third-party utility balances and raw materials availability allow. We intend to continue prioritizing startups based on third-party utility balances and raw materials availability.
- Our St. Charles Operations facility and our Greensburg facility are making progress toward restart of operations. We expect to have a more clear timeline for restart sequencing for both sites later this week, based on repairs and as third-party utility balances and raw materials availability allow.
We remain in close contact with our customers and all our stakeholders as the situation continues to evolve.
Additionally, we are partnering with our local communities to help address both immediate- and longer-term needs. Dow has committed $2 million to support relief and recovery efforts associated with the storm and its aftermath – for both the impacted communities and our employees.
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Update: September 1, 2021
Our thoughts remain with all those impacted by the storm. Team Dow is wholly focused on ensuring the safety of our colleagues, our operations and our communities as we work through the phases of assessment, recovery and restart.
Initial assessments do not show any major damage to our production facilities throughout Louisiana.
At our Louisiana Operations in Plaquemine, we continue to assess our operations and, contingent on 3rd party utilities supply restoration, expect to begin bringing operations back online next week. We intend to prioritize startups based on utility balances and raw materials availability.
Due to lack of functioning infrastructure in St. Charles Parish, it is too soon to predict operations startup timing for our St. Charles Operations facility. Our teams are working to be ready to begin bringing assets back online as soon as utility balances and raw materials availability allow. We are also partnering with stakeholders throughout the region to understand both immediate- and longer-term needs to help address critical infrastructure challenges.
In the near-term, we expect product and supply chain impacts across the industry to further tighten already constrained supply balances in our key value chains. We remain in close contact with our customers and all our stakeholders as the situation continues to evolve.
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Update: August 30, 2021
Our thoughts are with all those impacted by the storm. All Dow personnel who remained onsite as part of our emergency staff have been accounted for and are safe. We are working quickly to confirm that colleagues who evacuated are also accounted for and safe.
We have begun initial site assessments and expect those efforts to ramp as additional colleagues are able to return to our Louisiana sites.
Our teams are wholly focused on ensuring the safety of our colleagues, our operations and our communities as we work through assessment, recovery and restart phases. It is too early to estimate timing of restart or potential impact to our businesses.
We remain in close contact with all our stakeholders as the situation continues to evolve.
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August 29, 2021
In anticipation of Hurricane Ida making landfall on Sunday, August 29, Dow (NYSE: DOW) has safely shut down its manufacturing operations in Louisiana.
Dow sites on the U.S. Gulf Coast have comprehensive and well-defined hurricane preparedness plans that are designed to minimize production interruptions, while protecting the safety and health of our employees, our communities and our environment.
The Company remains in close contact with its stakeholders as this situation continues to evolve. Our thoughts are with those in the projected path of the storm.