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Enabling improved performance or processing with innovative, high-performance materials

Dow offers a wide range of silicone and organic specialty additives to enhance and improve product performance and/or processing. These versatile materials are used in many industries and applications to make high-value products even better. Whether it’s silicone resins that provide benefits in color cosmetics, latex powders that improve construction adhesives, rheology modifiers that improve the application characteristics of paint, or dispersions that enable reflective coatings for cool roofing products – additives and modifiers make the difference.

 Here’s an overview of the ways that additives and modifiers are used in a wide range of applications and products.

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Sun Care

Offering acrylates and hybrids that boost the SPF of sun care products with longer-lasting UV protection as well as textures that feel great and stay put, or providing silicone resins and acrylates that enable long-wear color cosmetics with excellent water resistance and sebum resistance.

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Paint and Coatings Additives

Offering an innovative, broad portfolio of rheology modifiers, dispersants, surfactants, and opaque polymers that improve performance properties such as hiding, surface smoothness and application properties, while also providing heat and UV resistance, optimized stability and enhanced dry film performance.

Green Building

Building, Construction and Infrastructure

Offering a wide range of advanced, quality acrylic, styrene acrylic and vinyl acetate polymers and silicone resins, cellulose ethers that improve the performance, aesthetics, sustainability and durability of cement products, mortars, adhesives, joint compounds, roofing tiles, waterproofing membranes and more.

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Foam Control Agents

Offering a range of silicone antifoam solutions that improve emulsion stability, knockdown, persistency and drainage – or any combination of these benefits in crop protection, food processing, water treatment, and more.

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Chlor-Alkali Solutions

Offering a range of premium and versatile caustic soda products, ISO9001 certified, that can be used as cleaning agent, pH adjuster, or additive in the manufacture of a wide range of industrial products, including soaps and detergents, pulp and paper, textiles and for effective water treatment.

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Leather Fabrication

Offering a portfolio of proprietary silicone, acrylic and polyurethane chemistries, combined with leather application experience that help formulators develop both the high-performance coatings needed for use in tanneries – and the solutions that support wet-end processes.

Additives and Modifiers

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Plastics Additives

Delivering innovative and sustainable solutions with PARALOID™ Impact Modifiers and Processing Aids, and SURECEL™ Processing Aids for improving the performance of PVC and engineering resins. 

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New silicone additives for enhanced durability waterborne wood coatings

Learn how to solve compatibility issues when using slip and mar, anti-blocking and foam control additives.

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