Corporate Profile

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Operating Segments Businesses
Performance Plastics

Dow Automotive
Dow Building Solutions
Dow Epoxy
Polyurethanes and Polyurethane Systems
Specialty Plastics and Elastomers
Technology Licensing and Catalyst

Performance Chemicals

Designed Polymers
Dow Latex
Specialty Chemicals

Agricultural Sciences Dow AgroSciences
Basic Plastics

Polyethylene
Polypropylene
Polystyrene

Basic Chemicals

Core Chemicals
Ethylene Oxide/Ethylene Glycol

Hydrocarbons and Energy Hydrocarbons and Energy
Unallocated and Other

New Ventures

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