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Sustainability Science
Supporting customers’ ability to easily identify and select products with specific sustainability attributes.
Sustainability Science in our markets
Helping our customers achieve their sustainability goals
From emissions reduction, to circular economy, to valuing water and nature – these six pillar brands represent the sustainability attributes of our product portfolio, making it easier for you to discover, compare, and create more sustainable solutions for the world we share. Our sustainability claims are made from a lifecycle perspective using recognized international standards and certification systems. So you can trust the materials you buy from Dow will deliver the sustainability benefits they promise. To learn more, watch this short video.
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Decarbia™
Accelerating decarbonization
We are implementing and advancing technologies to manufacture our products with lower GHG emissions. This, in turn, helps our customers reduce their GHG emissions as we collaborate to decarbonize value chains all the way to the consumer.
Explore our Decarbia™ case study library
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through better food packaging
Dow and AEON's Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP) tackles climate change by reducing food waste and extending shelf life, cutting GHG emissions from food activities, which account for 28-35% of global emissions. VSP enhances sustainability and consumer acceptance in Japan.
DOWSIL™ Solutions for Glass Façades in High Wind Zones
Dow’s DOWSIL™ technologies enabled the Tianjin CTF Finance Centre to achieve a sustainable and resilient glass façade design. By enhancing energy efficiency, safety, and performance, Dow contributed to decarbonization efforts and helped meet LEED Gold standards in high windload zones.
Dow Silicones Drive Sustainability at IOC Headquarters
Dow’s silicone solutions played a vital role in helping the Olympic House achieve LEED Platinum and other top sustainability certifications. By enabling energy-efficient, durable glass façades, Dow supported decarbonization efforts while enhancing occupant comfort and architectural freedom.
Dow Silicones Power Sustainable Charlemagne Renovation
Dow’s silicone solutions transformed the Charlemagne building, enabling energy-efficient glass façades and a modern, sustainable design. By meeting EU energy standards and enhancing natural light, Dow contributed to decarbonization and revitalized the structure’s aesthetic appeal.
Dow Silicones Enhance BRE Bank’s Iconic Glass Façade
Dow’s silicone solutions enabled the striking glass façade of BRE Bank in Bydgoszcz, blending modern design with historical surroundings. By ensuring structural integrity, energy efficiency, and international quality standards, Dow contributed to a sustainable and innovative architectural landmark.
Dow Solutions Shape Iconic Fondation Louis Vuitton
Dow’s silicone sealants and SentryGlas® interlayer were integral to the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s innovative glass sails. By enabling unique geometries, energy efficiency, and long-term durability, Dow supported the creation of this award-winning, sustainable architectural landmark in Paris.
Dow Secures Pae White’s Qwalala Glass Sculpture in Venice
Dow’s DOWSIL™ 993 Structural Glazing Sealant enabled the structural integrity of Pae White’s Qwalala sculpture at the 57th Venice Biennale. With advanced engineering and durability, Dow supported the seamless assembly of 3,000 glass bricks, achieving a groundbreaking blend of art and technology.
Dow’s SSG Technology: 50 Years of Glass Façade Innovation
Dow’s Silicone Structural Glazing (SSG) technology revolutionized glass façades, ensuring durability and energy efficiency for over 50 years. Its proven performance continues to enable sleek architectural designs while meeting the highest standards for safety and sustainability worldwide.
Dow Secures Safe Glass Façade for Liverpool Airport
Dow’s silicone solutions enabled Liverpool John Lennon Airport’s glass façade to meet stringent blast-resistance and safety standards. Combining security with design freedom, Dow’s expertise supports public safety while maintaining the terminal’s impressive architectural appeal.
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Building, Construction & Infrastructure
Collaborating with architects, engineers, building designers, contractors and manufacturers, enables the development of solutions to enhance performance, durability, aesthetics and sustainability across the built environment.
Cold Chain & Insulation
Delivering lightweight, energy-efficient cold-chain and insulation solutions to help meet the world’s demand for healthy and fresh food.
Cool Roof Coatings
Offering an elastomeric roof coating with durable performance and long-term thermal performance energy efficiency.
Renewable Energy
Addressing industry challenges with renewable energy technologies, from polyolefin and silicone-based solutions to protect photovoltaic cells to heat transfer fluids used in concentrated solar power and geothermal systems.
Climate Week Collaboration
Decarbonizing Value Chains – It’s Time
Jim Fitterling discusses Dow’s decarbonization journey
C2ES Event Highlights – Part 1
C2ES Event Highlights – Part 3
Dow and the Carbon Footprint Ledger
Additional resources for decarbonization
Chemical Building Blocks for Sustainability
Path to Zero emissions: Dow is investing approximately $1 billion per year to drive both growth and decarbonization of our manufacturing assets.
Carbon-neutral façades: Customers can request project-specific carbon-neutrality certificates.
Ethylene Propylene Diene Terpolymer (EPDM): Driving for better rubber pellets with more sustainability solutions.
PASCAL™ Technology for home cold appliances reduces energy consumption and results in GHG emissions savings.
Three ISCC PLUS certifications for Dow Polyurethanes sites reinforce progress on displacing fossil-based feedstocks.
Dow’s MobilityScience™ solutions support resilient, low-carbon mobility.
Ecolibrium™
Bio-based materials
Utilizing biomass feedstocks as an alternative to virgin fossil feedstocks, these products can deliver equal performance whether the demand is for drop-ins or a new formulation. With both direct source and mass balance alternatives, we’re working closely with customers to advance bio-based solutions.
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Athletic and Leisure Footwear
Taking a new approach to footwear design by incorporating bio-based polymers that balance sustainability and effective performance.
Architectural Interior Coatings
Offering premium paint performance while reducing the carbon footprint of paints and coatings by using ingredients derived from nature.
Packaging
Enabling bio-based packaging through products made using bio-based feedstocks, sourced from otherwise wasted resources, such as corn stover.
Home Care, Industrial and Institutional Cleaning
Providing naturally derived cleaning formulations for the home care, industrial and institutional markets.
Personal Care Sustainability
Delivering a wide portfolio of bio-derived personal care ingredients that improve sustainability and performance.
Additional resources for bio-derived solutions
Making footwear more sustainable, ENGAGE™ REN polyolefin elastomers are produced using renewable energy and plant-based raw materials.
Coatings bio-based technology: Offering bio-based acrylic emulsions for premium paint performance.
Dow and Tito Pabón are turning plants into paint to deliver high-performance coatings.
Mass balance helps consumers get a bio-based product in the most cost-efficient way.
Combining a lower carbon footprint with a superior performance and quality finish, AFFINITY™ RE gives packaging an enhanced sustainability profile.
At Dow, we're at the forefront of sustainable innovation, launching our new Renuva™ and Ecolibrium™ propylene glycol solutions in North America.
Renuva™
Recycled content
We address the accelerating demand for recycled materials through our investments in mechanical, chemical and other advanced recycling processes. By converting waste streams into new raw materials as an alternative to fossil feedstocks, we help our customers meet their recycled content targets.
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Consumer Goods
Delivering the right combination of appearance, functionality, productivity and lower costs with performance, reliability and sustainability.
Collation Shrink Packaging
Incorporate post-consumer recycled plastics and maximize performance.
Mattress Recycling Program from Renuva™
Enabling a low carbon and circular future for polyurethanes with the Mattress Recycling program.
Cosmetics Packaging
Produce stunning, high-quality cosmetics packaging with materials made using a circular feedstock produced from mixed plastic waste. This is achieved using advanced recycling technologies.
Artificial Turf
Design your high-performance turf with products rich in post-consumer recycled plastics.
Stretch Film
Protect goods in storage and transport with high-performance materials that incorporate post-consumer recycled plastics.
Additional resources for recycling solutions
Creating durable, attractive decking with recycled materials. See how AMPLIFY™ Si helps reduce energy costs and carbon footprints.
Collaborating across the value chain to give new life to old mattresses through recycling.
The materials ecosystem is unlocking the value of waste. We’re taking a systems approach to make it stronger.
The Renuva™ Program was developed by Dow as a collaborative effort to transform waste back into raw materials.
At Dow, we're at the forefront of sustainable innovation, launching our new Renuva™ and Ecolibrium™ propylene glycol solutions in North America.
Circulibrium™
Design for circularity
We create materials that can be used more efficiently and support a circular economy in applications that are designed to be recaptured, recycled and fed back into the value chain. This helps our customers contribute to circularity, reducing volume in landfills while creating value for the next generation.
Explore our Circulibrium™ case study library
The material ecosystem: Chapter 1
Eco-conscious consumers: How purchasing power drives systems change.
The material ecosystem: Chapter 2
It starts with design: How circularity ‘by design’ is accelerating.
The material ecosystem: Chapter 3
Finding value in waste: Signs of progress in waste collection and recycling.
The material ecosystem: Chapter 4
Material origins: How inventive recovery technologies are transforming more used plastics into high-value waste.
The Paper Cup Challenge
Dow’s RHOBARR™ 320 Barrier Dispersion enables up to 99% fiber recovery from paper cups, supporting circular economy goals. By reducing waste, improving recyclability, and lowering water and material usage, Dow delivers sustainable solutions for manufacturers, consumers, and the planet.
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Packaging
Helping brands design for recyclability, considering every aspect of a package’s life in relationship to our environment and a circular economy.
Mobility
Helping customers design for circularity with our integrated, full-vehicle-lifecycle approach to meet challenges for light weighting, battery life, thermal management and more.
Immersion Cooling Fluids
Improving sustainability and efficiency of data centers with award-winning DOWSIL™ silicone-organic immersion cooling fluid technology.
Additional resources for circularity solutions
Through collaboration across the value chain, we demonstrate that high-quality barrier pouch-to-pouch recycling is possible.
VORAMER™ Polyurethane Binders are suitable for several applications including playground surfaces and running tracks.
Unveiling circular solutions and sustainable innovations, we're thrilled to partner for a greener future in materials science.
Returna™
Biodegradability
These biodegradable materials break down into naturally occurring substances to reduce the impact of human activity on ecosystems. Our approach combines innovative advantages with technological best practices, enabling our customers to utilize biodegradable materials while maintaining performance.
Explore our Returna™ case study library
Success with UCON™ Trident™ 32 AW Hydraulic Fluid
The barge dock hydraulic crane in Texas City switched from ISO 32 mineral oil to UCON Trident 32 AW Hydraulic Fluid in 1995 to address environmental concerns. Since then, it has operated without issues, eliminating oil sheens and showing excellent performance, leading to further conversions.
UCON Lubricant Cleans Gas Storage Formation Improving Flow
A Gulf Coast gas storage facility switched from mineral oil-based lubricants to UCON Compressor Lubricant R-1, reducing downhole fouling and sludge formation. This change eliminated the need for chemical treatments, saving $150,000 annually and improved compressor reliability and flow rates by 10-15%.
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Hair Care
Offering innovative biodegradable ingredients for hair care formulations, along with application expertise to help you develop high-performing products for eco-conscious consumers.
Skin Care
Helping brand owners develop innovative skin care solutions, including bio-based and biodegradable ingredients that are safe for people and the planet.
Sun Care
Delivering the award-winning SunSpheres™ BIO SPF Booster, a bio-derived and readily biodegradable sun care solution that is safe for consumers and the oceans.
Home Care Sustainability
Collaborating across the value chain to develop high-value formulations for home care products, including biodegradable solutions that offer sustainability and performance.
Additional resources for biodegradable solutions
ECollaboration Concepts: formulations that inspire a holistic and circular approach to beauty ingredients and packaging.
SunSpheres™ BIO SPF Booster: A bio-derived and readily biodegradable solution for SPF boosters that enables greater SPF efficiency in sun care.
Innovative Surfactants: A portfolio of innovative nonionic, anionic and low-foam surfactants that reduce our environmental impact.
MaizeCare™ Kit: Discover formulations for MaizeCare™, a bio-based polymer derived from corn that allows flexibility in hair care styling.
Resoursa™
Resource efficiency
We design materials that help our customers improve efficiency and reduce usage of critical resources such as water and energy in their processes. Working with our partners, we aim to enhance the use-phase benefits of our products while raising the bar on how to optimize manufacturing.
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Pulp and Paper Processing Aids
Increasing efficiency and reducing environmental impact in pulp and paper processing with new-generation antifoams.
Building Energy Efficiency
Delivering a full range of silicone-based solutions to help optimize energy efficiency in new construction and renovations.
Packaging
Offering lightweight and downgauged packaging solutions that deliver the same performance while helping reduce waste and save energy.
Home Care, Industrial & Institutional Cleaning
Delivering efficiency, multifunctional performance and sustainability with innovative cleaning products.
Household Appliances
Increasing energy efficiency in household refrigerators and freezers by reducing their carbon footprint by 10% with PASCAL™ technology.
Commercial Appliances Insulation
Helping keep food fresh using polyurethane solutions to improve thermal insulation and lower global warming.
Additional resources for resource efficiency solutions
Silicone Foam Control for Laundry: Learn why compact formulations for laundry detergents bring big advantages.
DOWSIL™ 8016 Waterborne Resin: Waterborne silicone resin, 100% solvent free.
Immersing the Cloud in sustainability with DOWSIL™ Immersion Cooling Technology.
Building stronger connections for telecommunications conduit and microduct applications.
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