Dow (Shanghai) Investment Co., Ltd

Dow Corning

Dow Corning provides performance enhanced solutions to meet the different needs of more than 25000 customers around the world. As a global leader in organic silicon, silicon-based technology and innovation, Dow Corning provides more than 7000 products and services through Dow Corning brand and xiameter brand. Dow Corning company is a joint venture company equally held by Dow Chemical Company and Corning company. Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA, the company has 45 production bases and storage facilities around the world, with more than 12000 employees worldwide. The company's 2011 sales reached $6.43 billion. More than half of sales come from outside the United States. Innovation is the core of Dow Corning's business. The company's annual R & D expenses account for about 4-5% of sales, and has about 4500 valid patents in the world. Dow Corning's operations around the world follow the responsible care program of the U.S. chemical Commission. Responsibility care is a set of strict standards to promote and ensure the safety management of chemical products, processes and processes.

Dow Corning also owns a majority stake in the hemlock semiconductor group. Hemlock semiconductor is the world's leading supplier of polysilicon and silicon-based products for semiconductor equipment, solar cells and modules. Hemlock semiconductor started operation in 1961, and has announced investment of more than US $4 billion since 2005. In the past seven years, Dow Corning and hemlock semiconductor group have announced investment of more than US $5 billion in R & D and expansion of production capacity of materials critical to the development of the solar industry.

Founded in 1943, Dow Corning is committed to exploring and developing the application potential of silicone and is now a global leader in silicon-based technology and innovation.

Dow Corning in China

As early as 1973, the company set up its first office in Hong Kong. In recent years, Dow Corning has developed rapidly in China with a total investment of more than US $2 billion. Up to now, Dow Corning has six offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hong Kong and Taipei, and two main production bases and one business technology center in Zhangjiagang and Shanghai. It not only provides various products and services for customers all over the country, but also gradually brings the world's leading silicone products, services and production technology into China.

Dow Corning's first production base in China was built in Songjiang, Shanghai in 1997. Since then, the company has continued to increase investment in Songjiang plant, expand its production capacity, manufacture new developed finished products and new applications and products developed by Dow Corning China business technology center.

Dow Corning China business technology center is located in Zhangjiang High Tech Park, Pudong, Shanghai. The business technology center has greatly enhanced the company's innovation capability, which fully reflects Dow Corning's sustained and long-term commitment to the Chinese market. The new Dow Corning business technology center brings together hundreds of scientists, engineers and marketing experts to develop more innovative solutions to improve the quality of life of Chinese people by solving various major problems. One of the specific goals of the center is to improve customer service by shortening the innovation cycle and turn market opportunities and innovative ideas into profitable solutions.

Silicone materials have unlimited potential in improving, transforming and creating better quality of life. The silicone industry will continue to meet the needs of customers in providing high-performance, innovative and reliable materials. As a global technology leader in this field, Dow Corning is committed to making great efforts to produce and promote silicone, a magic material and its application, to contribute to the successful development of China. Dow Corning's innovative products and solutions have been applied in many landmark infrastructures in China, such as the theme pavilion and China National Pavilion of Expo 2010, Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing subway platforms, Qinghai Tibet railway and National Grand Theater.

Dow Corning actively supports sustainable development in China. Like other production bases all over the world, the company actively implements the concept of sustainable development in its production bases in China, and its EHSS management system actively responds to the "responsible care" initiative. The initiative aims to improve the safety management of chemical products and processes through a set of strict international standards. Dow Corning is committed to continue to improve its performance in environment, health and safety, and to share best practices with its chemical counterparts in China to provide industry solutions for some major issues facing Chinese society.