Dow Texas Operations Fast Facts

Based on 2002-03 Data

• Dow’s largest integrated site in the world
• 3 major complexes covering 5,000 acres
• Water reservoirs covering 4,700 acres
• Waterways and pipeline corridors covering 3,200 acres

Products and Facilities at Texas Operations

• 75 production plants serving all 8 of Dow’s Global Business Groups
• Produces 27 billion pounds of products annually
• 11.7 billion pounds for internal use; 15.3 billion pounds sold externally to customers
• Manufactures 44 percent of Dow products sold in the United States
• Manufactures more than 21 percent of Dow products sold globally
• Hydrocarbons storage facility covering 2,500 acres
• 13 dock facilities, including 5 deep-water berths
• Ships 36.6 percent of products by water; 32 percent by rail; 22.2 percent by pipeline; 9.2 percent by truck

Economic Prosperity
Economic Impact

Payroll/Benefits: Property Taxes: Local Purchases:

$470 million $64.5 million $341.6 million

Environmental Stewardship
Environment, Health & Safety

• 80 percent reduction in OSHA recordable injury and illness rate since 1994
• On track to achieve Dow’s 2005 EH&S Goals
• Active participant in the local Industrial CAER program; Home to CAER Central.
• Coastal Cleanup with Dow volunteers
• Active partnership with Sea Center Texas

Corporate Social Responsibility
Community Outreach Includes:

• Service to Mankind Award from the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• $30,000 contribution to Center for Arts & Sciences
• City of Freeport – Cherry Street Project
• Habitat for Humanity – House Build #43
• Community Advisory Panel; community focus groups

Community Outreach Activities:

• Brazoria County Fair
• Center for Arts & Sciences
• Dow Black Skimmer Colony
• Dow House
• Great Texas Birding Classic
• Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
• Keep Texas Beautiful
• Sea Center Texas
• Texas Parks & Wildlife Expo
• United Way