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Safer Materials
What is a safer material?
A safer material is one with a measurably lower health risk potential and more favorable environmental profile over it's intended life cycle(s) as compared to the incumbent solution. We believe that creating safer materials is a continuous journey and is possible through innovation, design and more predictive, enabling technologies.
Dow’s approach to safer materials
To develop safer materials that meet the needs of our customers and the value chain, we monitor regulatory trends and use cutting-edge science. We focus on three main things.
Evaluating our product portfolio
We're embedding evaluations of sustainability and safety in our innovation process, starting in the research and development phase and through the product life cycle.
Innovating the materials of tomorrow
We're working with our customers and value chain partners to develop products that are more sustainable and maintain or exceed existing performance.
Promoting open and transparent chemistry
We're committed to advancing transparent chemistry with our value chain partners, customers and the public.
How do we develop safe products?
It's a question often asked by customers, regulators and others that we are always eager to answer. Watch "The Birth of a Molecule" video below to find out.
Lessons Learned in Advancing Safer Materials
As part of Dow’s Safe Materials for a Sustainable Planet 2025 goal, the company advanced a set of sustainable material alternatives and reached its milestone through years of innovation and collaboration. The team explores what it takes to bring safer, more sustainable materials to market, highlighting key challenges, enablers and insights gained along the way.
Responsible Care®
Discover how this voluntary initiative of the global chemical industry is taking leading companies above and beyond their prior accomplishments to achieve even higher standards of performance - and generate greater value for their businesses.
Sustainability Science
This unique product portfolio helps our customers and value chain partners discover and deliver more sustainable solutions to the world we share.
Technology highlights
ELVALOY™ Reactive Elastomeric Terpolymer (RET)
ECOSURF™ Surfactant
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®Responsible Care is a service mark of The American Chemistry Council in the United States.