Dow Receives 11th U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
June 12 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Prestigious U.S. EPA award for paper coating innovation
illustrates sustainable chemistry in action
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) and Koehler Paper Group are
the recipients of a 2017 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The award was given
in the design of greener chemicals category for the development of
ROPAQUE™ NT-2900 Opaque Polymer for BLUE 4EST™ Thermal Paper. This
is the 11th Presidential Green Chemistry Award Dow and its
affiliates have received since the EPA introduced the award in
1996.
“BLUE 4EST™ Thermal Paper is an amazing innovation. It takes an
entirely new approach, eliminates chemical developers for improved
safety, yet still works in existing equipment,” said A.N. Sreeram,
senior vice president, Research & Development, and chief
technology officer for Dow. “It demonstrates the passion of our
people to deliver inventive solutions to customer
problems. The fact that Dow has earned more of these awards
than any other company speaks to our focus on providing innovative
products in a responsible way and our drive to collaborate with
customers like Koehler to address growing consumer and regulatory
demands.”
BLUE 4EST™ is a more sustainable thermal paper option for
applications such as cash register receipts, tickets, tags, and
labels. The technology, which is compatible with existing printers,
is free of chemical developers and removes chemicals of concern
from production consistent with the American Chemical Society Green
Chemistry Institute’s green chemistry principles. Instead of
relying on a chemical reaction to provide a color change as with
conventional thermal paper, colored paper is masked by a coating
consisting of engineered hollow spheres. Precise chemical control
during production of the hollow spheres controls the wall thickness
and void size to form a highly reflective particle from an
otherwise clear polymer. Mild heating with a thermal print head
collapses the spheres, destroying the reflectivity and allowing the
background color to show through.
The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards affirm Dow’s
commitment to deliver breakthrough sustainable chemistry
innovations that advance the well-being of humanity, part of the
Company’s ambitious 2025 Sustainability Goals.
“Dow is having innovation success collaborating with customers
for more effective, sustainable materials,” said Neil Hawkins,
corporate vice president, Environment, Health and Safety, and chief
sustainability officer for Dow. “We are honored to receive this
eleventh Presidential Green Chemistry Award from the EPA.”
This award represents one in a string of many recent accolades
for Dow focused on eliminating chemicals of concern for products
with more sustainable environmental profiles, such as the 2017 U.S.
EPA Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award, the 2017 Edison Awards
for breakthrough technologies, and the 2016 Sustainability Product
of the Year Award from Business Intelligence Group. Learn more
about Dow’s awards and recognition for sustainable innovations.
ROPAQUE™ Opaque Polymer from Dow Coating Materials was
introduced in the 1980s as the world’s first hollow sphere pigment
technology, designed initially for use in architectural paints as a
partial replacement for titanium dioxide. Further opportunities to
leverage the technology outside of traditional house paint
applications expanded into the paper industry for use as a glossing
agent, and has found a renewed value in thermal paper coatings.
Learn more about ROPAQUE™ Opaque Polymers from Dow.
The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards promote
the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using
novel green chemistry. These prestigious annual awards recognize
chemical technologies that incorporate the principles of green
chemistry into chemical design, manufacture, and use. The awards
are sponsored by the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention in partnership with the American Chemical Society Green
Chemistry Institute® and other members of the chemical community
including industry, trade associations, academic institutions, and
other government agencies.
About Dow
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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 fresh
food, safer and more sustainable transportation, clean water,
energy efficiency, more durable infrastructure, and increasing
agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven
portfolio delivers a broad range of technology-based products and
solutions to customers in 175 countries and in high-growth sectors
such as packaging, infrastructure, transportation, consumer care,
electronics, and agriculture. In 2016, Dow had annual sales of $48
billion and employed approximately 56,000 people worldwide. The
Company's more than 7,000 product families are manufactured at 189
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