Dow Names Molly Peifang Zhang Business VP for Dow Technology Licensing

Midland, MI - March 13, 2006

The Dow Chemical Company announced today that Molly Peifang Zhang has been named business vice president for Dow Technology Licensing. She was previously site director for Map-Ta-Phut Operations, Thailand, and manufacturing director for Dow's joint ventures with Siam Cement Company.

Zhang will be based in Shanghai, China, and report to Phil Cook, corporate vice president of Strategic Development, Licensing and New Ventures.

"Most of the current activity and projected growth for the Dow Technology Licensing is in Asia," says Cook. "As such, I'm tremendously excited with the opportunity to have someone with Molly's technical credentials leading the business. Molly's experience in Asia combined with her proven track record of success working in ventures will enable the business to accelerate its growth."

Zhang joined Dow as an engineer in Process Engineering in Stade, Germany, in 1989. In 1991, she began working at the Dowex™/Dowanol™ plant and three years later Zhang became superintendent of the PO/PG Environmental Operations plants for the Dow joint venture in Ningbo, China. In 1996, Zhang was named production leader for the PO/PG facilities in Freeport,

Texas, and in 1999 she became global technology director for the Chlorohydrin Tech Center. In early 2002, she was named site director for the Map-Ta-Phut Operations, and also served as the manufacturing director and board member of Siam Cement (SCC) and Dow joint venture companies in Thailand.

A native Chinese from Shanghai, Zhang received a master's degree in chemistry and a doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Clausthal in Germany.

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Becky Evans
The Dow Chemical Company
(989) 636-5847

Brendan Mangus
Gibbs & Soell PR
(212) 697-2600


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