Dow Wins Seven Prestigious 2016 R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine
November 04 2016 - 2:53PM
Business Wire
Company lauded for product innovations in transportation,
packaging, electronics and agro science, among others
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) received seven prestigious
R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine for revolutionary
technologies recently introduced to the market. The awards, often
referred to as the "Oscars of Invention," were revealed at the 54th
Annual R&D 100 Awards and Technology Conference on November 3
in Washington, D.C.
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“We have a long history of delivering products that solve the
world’s toughest challenges and for having those products
recognized by the R&D 100 Awards, with 20 of these awards in
the past three years,” said A.N. Sreeram, senior R&D vice
president and chief technology officer. “We continue to push
technology to the next level, providing market-driven, sustainable
solutions that address the world’s needs in energy, food, water,
transportation, infrastructure, and more. The R&D 100 Awards
allow us to pause from our hard work to receive a moment of praise
from experts in innovation for the products we bring to market each
year.”
The 2016 R&D 100 award-winning Dow technologies are:
- BETAFORCE™ 2817 Structural
Adhesive joins composites and other dissimilar materials
enabling innovative lightweight vehicle designs.
- CANVERA™ Polyolefin Dispersions
provides progressive food and beverage brand owners with the next
long-term can coating alternative that eliminates materials
traditionally found in epoxy or alternative coating systems which
are of concern for many consumers.
- Dow Corning® TC-3040 Thermal
Gel delivers a silicone-based thermal management solution for
advanced semiconductor devices. It improves heat dissipation
capability in high performance computing applications using a new
proprietary filler technology.
- Flexible Acrylic Resin (FAR) is
a blendable polymer for injection molding, extrusion, calendering
or film-blowing in applications requiring low stress whitening,
flexibility, UV resistance, and excellent ink and paint
adhesion.
- Paradigm™ WG Herbicide with Arylex™
Active is a novel herbicide with a broadened spectrum of
hard-to-control weeds in cereal crops such as wheat and barley. It
combines several chemistries with Dow AgroSciences’ GoDri™
formulation that disperses rapidly and completely when diluted to
enable faster, easier applications.
- CANVERA™ Polyolefin Dispersions
also won a special recognition award for market disruptor
products.
- Dow AGILITY™ Performance LDPE
also won in the special recognition – market disruptor category. It
is designed for high speed low gauge processing. With enhanced and
globally available process technology, AGILITY™ addresses the most
stringent industry requirements, offering a suitable substitute to
extrusion coating materials.
This year marks five straight years of Dow products appearing on
the R&D 100 list. The Dow name now appears more than 100 times
in the R&D 100s. Read more about our 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
innovations.
Since 1963, the R&D 100 Awards have identified revolutionary
technologies newly introduced to the market. Widely recognized as
the “Oscars of Invention,” the R&D 100 Awards identify and
celebrate the top technology products and services of the year.
Past winners have included sophisticated testing equipment,
innovative new materials, chemistry breakthroughs, biomedical
products, consumer items, and renewable energy. In 2015, the
program was expanded to include a two-day conference focusing on
high-level insights and discussion on the topics most relevant to
R&D professionals working in today’s pioneering engineering and
laboratory settings.
For more information about Dow’s innovation engine and this
year’s full list of 2016 Dow Winners and Finalists, visit Science
and Sustainability on www.dow.com.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from material,
polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of
the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean
water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing
agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven,
industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced
materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad
range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in
approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as
packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2015,
Dow had annual sales of nearly $49 billion and employed
approximately 49,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than
6,000 product families are manufactured at 179 sites in 35
countries across the globe. On June 1, 2016, Dow became the 100
percent owner of Dow Corning Corporation’s silicones business, a
global company with sales of greater than $4.5 billion in 2015, 25
manufacturing sites in 9 countries and approximately 10,000
employees worldwide. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The
Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless
otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found
at www.dow.com.
About R&D Magazine
Since its founding in 1959 as Industrial Research, R&D
Magazine has served research scientists, engineers and technical
staff at laboratories around the world, providing timely,
informative news and useful technical articles that broaden
readers’ knowledge of the research and development industry and
improve the quality of their work. R&D Magazine is a
publication of Advantage Business Media
(www.advantagebusiness.media.com).
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