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Dow products made in Louisiana enable manufacturers to make cars lighter, stronger, more stylish, and more energy-efficient. Our chemicals are used to make brake fluid, antifreeze, and other fuel additives, as well as specialized plastics and resins used as components in automobiles, trucks and sport utility vehicles.

The ANGUS facility in Sterlington, Louisiana, produces nitroparaffins, an additive to nitro fuel used by professional drag race cars, and nitro alchohols that enables tire cord adhesion.

Chlorinated polyethylene produced at Louisiana Operations in Plaquemine goes into automotive hoses, tubes and wires – critical components that ensure automobile performance.

St. Charles Operations is owned by Union Carbide Corporation, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company. "Dow", as used throughout this web site, often refers generically to The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries.