Shanghai, China - October 30, 2008

Dow Coating Solutions, a market facing business of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow"), is showcasing a range of industry innovations introduced in the past year, demonstrating its ongoing commitment in environment protection and sustainable development at Chinacoat'2008 (Booth number 10B39-46) which will be held in Guangzhou during November 26-28.

Dow Coating Solutions brings the chemistries of 11 Dow businesses, including Dow Epoxy, Dow Amines, Specialty Latex and ANGUS Chemical Company together. They are mainly used in three markets: architectural, transportation and corrosion protection, and industrial coatings. Our teams look at customers' short- and long-term goals in order to develop the optimal solution for them.

"We created Dow Coating Solutions to provide customers easier access to the chemistries and expertise they need to continually drive innovation in the coating industry," George Hamilton, president of Dow Coating Solutions, said. "While market and business conditions have changed considerably in the past year, we remain committed to  this objective. In the next few months, we will pull in new resources and continue core research that will directly benefit our customers and help us offer new solutions to the application demands driving our industry."

Since inception, Dow Coating Solutions has focused on four key innovation themes: improving environmental durability, reducing the environmental impact of coatings, reducing lifecycle and processing costs and advancing smart coatings research.

Improving environmental durability:

Including:

• UCAR® FLEX Latex DE 7058 -- a new modified acrylic emulsion designed specifically to provide excellent performance attributes, including dirt pickup resistance, crack bridging and elasticity in exterior paint and coating formulations.
• D.E.R.™ 6508 solid epoxy resins -- used in coatings for pipelines operating at high, temperatures (up to 140 degrees Celsius) to guard against corrosion.

Reducing the environmental impact of coatings
In the past year, Dow Coating Solutions has introduced a wide range of products and processes that can help formulators reduce the environmental impact of coatings, including:

• ECOSURF™ SA Surfactants -- a new generation of patented, biodegradable, nonionic surfactants that meet most environmental and handling safety standards world-wide, while offering excellent performance and economics.
• RENUVA™ Renewable Resource Technology -- a new process that enables the use of natural oil-based polyols for products with high levels of renewable content as well as excellent coatings performance.
• BLUEWAVE™ Technology -- a new process that allows for the production of waterborne dispersions from multiple families of chemistry.
• Glyercine-to-Epichlorohydrin (GTE) technology -- which will allow Dow to produce epichlorohydrin from renewable feedstocks.
• Latexes that will help formulators meet new regulations for architectural coatings with VOC levels less than 50 g/l.
• New biocide products that enable zero- or low-VOC coating formulations.

Reducing Application and Lifecycle Costs
Recent innovations in reducing application steps and lifecycle costs include the introduction of FORTEGRA™ Epoxy Toughening agents, new low viscosity materials for use in amine, DICY, anhydride and phenolic cured epoxy systems that minimize the need for costly additives such as carboxyl terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile and aliphatic modifiers.

Smart Coating Research
The company is also dedicated to developing new smart coating technologies that offer unique and benefits that can be tailored in many different coatings. Work at the company's new coatings R&D labs in Shanghai and Midland, Mich. focus on areas such as self-healing and reactive coatings, while continuing to advance technologies across all of the Dow Coating Solutions innovation themes.

 "It has been an exciting year, during which we have made several significant advances in all of the innovation focus areas we've identified," Wendy Hoenig, Vice President R&D for Dow Coating Solutions, explained. "At ChinaCoat, we will be meeting with customers and listening to their input so that we can continue to innovate and develop new solutions that meet the needs of the market today and for years to come."

About Dow Coating Solutions
Dow Coating Solutions is a market-facing business unit of The Dow Chemical Company that focuses on the needs of coatings formulators and the coatings market. The business relies on many of Dow's valuable assets, including multiple product chemistries, a highly-trained coatings R&D staff and an unparalleled global supply infrastructure, to offer product-agnostic solutions to coatings formulators worldwide.  For additional information, visit www.DowCoatingSolutions.com.

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Ada Gao
Dow Coating Solutions
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Frances Ma
EMG Chaina
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