Pack Studios Freeport accelerates packaging innovation by facilitating collaboration across the value chain. From brand owners to converters to academics, we connect you with packaging experts in spaces designed for the ideation of optimal solutions. The facility is equipped with the latest packaging technology, allowing you to conceptualize, develop and test ideas.

Established in 2012, Pack Studios Freeport – located south of Houston, Texas, USA – is our first and one of our largest locations, featuring a robust assortment of state-of-the-art fabrication lines, commercial-scale packaging lines, and diverse testing equipment. This unique innovation center is strategically positioned where Dow’s North America experts can collaborate to solve unique packaging challenges that accelerate packaging innovation across the value chain.

The Dow complex in the Freeport area is home to our research and development, pilot plants, production plants, and more. And Pack Studios Freeport sits in the heart of it all.

Pack Studios Freeport enables regional customers and industry partners to deliver faster and more efficient commercialization of new and improved packaging. Capabilities in Freeport allow customers and partners to reduce cycle time on fabrication, prototyping, and testing during new packaging development.

World-class sensory science labs that offer ASTM-certified evaluation of package components’ taste, odor, touch and sound qualities.

Pack Studios Ringwood – located north of Chicago, Illinois, USA – is aimed at accelerating laminating adhesives projects through a global network of laboratories, technical experts and testing equipment. The location features an industrial-scale Nordmeccanica Super Combi 3000 laminator line for faster commercialization of innovative adhesives solutions. Pack Studios Ringwood supports testing and prototyping, with the added advantage of avoiding the disruption to commercial production.