Dow Europe GmbH Announces Price Increase for Synthetic Rubber

Horgen, Switzerland - June 16, 2008

Effective July 1st, 2008 or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH will increase prices for all its Synthetic Rubber grades by 250 Euro per metric ton. Dow offers a broad portfolio of styrene rubber (SBR) and polybutadiene rubber (BR) products, including cold polymerized emulsion styrene butadiene rubber (BUNA™ E-SBR), high-cis polybutadiene rubber (BR), low-cis polybutadiene rubber as well as solution styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR).

For more information about Synthetic Rubber visit: plastics.dow.com, or call the Dow Customer
Information Group at +800-3-694-6367.

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