Dow Biocides Announces Global Price Increase for Glutaraldehyde

Buffalo Grove, Ill - July 18, 2006

Dow Biocides, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow"), is announcing a price increase for both list and off list prices of its entire glutaraldehyde product portfolio of 10 cents per pound in North America and by 10 percent (10%) for the rest of the world.  The price increase is effective September 1, 2006.  Product trade names for glutaraldehyde from Dow Biocides include GLUTEX™ sanitizers for animal housing biosecurity, AQUCAR™ water treatment microbiocides, UCARCIDE™ antimicrobial preservatives, UCARSAN™ sanitizers, UCONEXTM antimicrobials and ZOLDINETM oxazolidines.

"Driven by the increasing costs of this highly regulated industry and continued upward cost pressures in the market, this price increase is necessary to enable continued reinvestment in the business,” said Nanette Hermsen, global marketing manager for Dow Biocides.

Glutaraldehyde is a commonly-used biocide frequently used as a disinfectant and sterilizing agent in a wide variety of markets and applications including high level disinfection and animal housing biosecurity.  It is one of the few biocides that meet the criteria to be called readily biodegradable (OECD 301A and 306 guidelines), and as a non-oxidizing agent, glutaraldehyde does not corrode metal surfaces like oxidizing agents such as household bleach.

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. For more information on Dow Biocides, visit www.dowbiocides.com

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