Vice President, Michigan Operations
David J. Dupre is vice president, Operations, for Dow AgroSciences, a role he assumed on April 2004. On July 1, 2006, he also assumed site leader responsibility for The Dow Chemical Company’s Michigan Operations, being named Vice President for this responsibility which will be in addition to his Dow AgroSciences leadership role. Prior to these roles, Dupre served as global operations director for the Polyurethanes business at The Dow Chemical Company (Dow).
Dupre joined Dow in 1977 as an engineer in the Project Engineering Department in Freeport, Texas, where he worked for six years. Over the next several years, Dupre held various engineering and production assignments in the Nitrogen Products Technology Center as well as the Chlor-Pyridines Production Plants where he served as the production superintendent from 1986 to 1990. In 1991, Dupre was named leader of Texas Operations' Materials and Mechanical Technology group, where he was instrumental in initiating Dow's reliability engineering efforts and training.
In 1994, Dupre moved to Dalton, Georgia, as the site manager. In 1995, Dupre assumed the additional responsibility of the business manufacturing manager for North American Foams as part of the Fabricated Products business. This role was later expanded to be the global business manufacturing director of Building Materials.
Dupre became the global operations director for Engineering Plastics in 1998, and relocated back to Freeport, Texas, in late 1999. Dow's Engineering Plastics business included Polycarbonate, Styrenic Co-Polymers, thermoplastic urethanes (TPU), Syndiotactic Polystyrene, and Compounding facilities around the world.
In 2003, Dupre assumed the position of global operations director for the Polyurethanes business which included the production of toluene diisocyanate (TDI), methylenediphenyl diisocyanate (MDI), and polyols along with some specialty products. In this role, he was responsible for 29 production plants in 17 countries.
Dupre holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.