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Safer Materials
Collaborating to advance green chemistry education
We’re proud to announce our expanded multi-year collaboration with Beyond Benign, a nonprofit organization focused on making green chemistry an integral part of education.
Dow products earn six BIG Innovation Awards
We’re proud to have been recognized by Business Intelligence Group™ (BIG) Innovation for delivering better product performance and sustainability—for the 8th consecutive year.
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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. Our approach focuses on three main areas.
Characterizing our product portfolio
Sustainability and safety are embedded in our innovation process, starting in the research and development phase. We also continually assess the safety of our existing products.
Managing priority substances
Through a robust methodology, we identify substances of concern and define clear action plans to address these products across their life cycles.
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.
Safe materials for a sustainable planet
Nearly a decade ago, as part of our 2025 Sustainable Goals, Dow made a commitment to accelerate our safer material journey through innovation, candid conversations and open and transparent chemistry.
Dow has characterized our portfolio to identify and prioritize opportunities for alternative chemistries. Our methodology is aligned with the Portfolio Sustainability Assessment by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
In 2023, we concluded the development of two alternatives to methyl ethyl ketoxime (MEKO). These alternative chemistries, which will launch in 2024, are aligned with our commitment to identify and implement alternatives for products containing priority substances.
Our predictive toxicology team has advanced the next generation of science-based safety assessments by applying computer modeling, cell-based systems, grouping of molecules or through exposure- and risk-based evaluations.
We launched a program that uses a risk-based approach rooted in Responsible Care® and product stewardship principles to analyze and characterize mechanically recycled post-consumer recycled (PCR) material, as well as support the safe use and incorporation of mechanically recycled products.
ELVALOY™ Reactive Elastomeric Terpolymer (RET) from Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) has been selected as the eighth official sustainable alternative, advancing Dow towards our 2025 Sustainability Goal of Safe Materials for a Sustainable Planet.
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Technology highlights
ELVALOY™ Reactive Elastomeric Terpolymer (RET)
ECOSURF™ Surfactant
SunSpheres™ BIO SPF Booster
CIO 100 Awards
We’re honored to have received a CIO 100 Award for our Smart Search tool—powered by CAS—which accelerates R&D and helps provide the best, most sustainable solutions for customers.
Blueprint for product safety
Aligned with our 2025 Sustainability Goals, we published a blueprint on how collaboration, innovation, and the highest quality of science is the foundation for managing chemical products safely. From evaluating innovative opportunities to collaborating on science-based safety assessments, we’re working on solutions to help preserve our planet and ensure human safety.
Responsible Care®
Learn 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.
How do we develop safe products?
It’s a question often asked by customers, regulators and others. Watch "The Birth of a Molecule" video below to find out how safely we develop new solutions to global problems.
Sustainability Science
This unique product portfolio helps our customers and value chain partners discover and deliver more sustainable solutions to the world we share.
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®Responsible Care is a service mark of The American Chemistry Council in the United States.