Global Price Increase for all Dow Biocides Products

Buffalo Grove, IL - December 20, 2005

Effective January 1, 2006, Dow Biocides, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow"), is announcing a 10 percent (10%) price increase on both list and off list prices for its entire biocides product portfolio around the world. The increase includes all key active substances such as Glutaraldehyde, DBNPA, DIMTS, BIT, Bronopol, CTAC, DXN, OPP, OBCP and SOPP. Key product brands included in this increase include (not inclusive):

AMICAL™ antifungal agents
AQUCAR™ water treatment microbiocides
BIOBAN™ antimicrobials
CANGUARD™ preservatives
DOWICIDE™ antimicrobials
DOWICIL™ antimicrobials
GLUTEX™ sanitizers
PIROR™ microbial slimicides
UCARCIDE™ antimicrobial preservatives
UCARSAN™ sanitizers

"In a challenging regulatory and environmental health and safety intensive industry, this price increase supports our reinvestments in regulatory data, registrations and increasing our capacity to meet the growing demand for Dow Biocides products," said Mark Henning, general manager for Dow Biocides. "Our drive is to ensure a sustainable long term offering for these important specialty products across all regions of the world for a wide variety of markets and applications."

Offering the industry's largest and most diverse product portfolio, Dow Biocides offers a product for just about every type of microbial challenge and system requirement. The performance capabilities range from high to low pH performance, quick kill to sustained performance and a range of registrations unparalleled in the industry.

Dow is a leader in science and technology, providing innovative chemical, plastic and agricultural products and services to many essential consumer markets. With annual sales of $40 billion, Dow serves customers in 175 countries and a wide range of markets that are vital to human progress: food, transportation, health and medicine, personal and home care, and building and construction, among others. Committed to the principles of sustainable development, Dow and its 43,000 employees seek to balance economic, environmental and social responsibilities. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted.

More information on Dow Biocides is available on the Internet at www.dowbiocides.com.

For Editorial Information:

Louise Falp
Dow Biocides
+1 847 808 3771


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