Middle East -

Early 1970s	Dow Export SA opens in Cairo, Egypt.
1977	Dow Export GmbH opens in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E). This office is the business center for Dow’s activities in the Middle East.
1985	Arabian Chemical Co. Ltd, a joint venture with E.A. Juffali and Brothers.
1994	UCAR Emulsion Systems includes a latex manufacturing plant, bulk storage, a terminal distribution center, and a sales office.
1995	EQUATE, a joint venture with Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait. Other shareholders include Boubyan Petrochemical Company and Qurain Petrochemical Industries Company.
1997	Dow Mideast Systems SAE opens in Ramadan City (Cairo), Egypt. This manufacturing and business center is a Polyurethane Systems House.
2003	Olefins II announced a joint venture with Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait to construct a new ethylene and derivatives complex.
2004	MEGlobal, a joint venture with PIC of Kuwait, to manufacture and marketing of merchant monoethylene glycol and diethylene glycol (EG).
2004	Dow and PIC form MEGlobal, a world leader in the manufacturing and marketing of merchant monoethylene glycol (MEG) and diethylene glycol (DEG), collectively known as ethylene glycol (EG).
2004	Equipolymers, a joint venture with PIC of Kuwait, manufactures and markets polyethylene terephthalate resins (PET), while producing purified terephthalic acid (PTA).
2006	Dow and Saudi Aramco sign a Memorandum of Understanding for the Ras Tanura Integrated Project, a proposed joint venture to construct, own and operate a world-scale chemicals and plastics production complex.
2007	Dow and Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of the State of Kuwait announced plans to form a 50/50 joint venture that will be a market-leading, global petrochemicals company.
2009	The Olefins II joint venture with Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait June - Dow becomes a founding member of the Industrial Collaboration Program with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and signs an agreement with the University calling for a multi-year, multi-million dollar research & development investment collaboration program. July - Dow acquires a joint venture stake (hROH) in the Saudi Acrylics Monomer Company (SAMCo) with Saudi Arabian partner company, Tasnee Sahara Olefins Company (TSOC). The plant would be the first acrylic monomer production facility in the region and be constructed in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Directly aligned to Dow’s strategic focus on strengthening the franchise basics businesses and preferentially investing in the performance businesses, Dow in the Middle East is raising awareness of the Company as an industry leader, rewarding employer and partner of choice.