Dow Corning Corporation, Dow Corning (China) Investment Co., Ltd., founded in 1943, is a world-renowned company in the field of silicone, silicone-based technology and innovation, a pioneer in the development of commercial silicone products, and the largest manufacturer and sales of electrical tapes in Europe
Dow Corning provides performance-enhancing solutions that meet the diverse needs of more than 25,000 customers worldwide. As a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, Dow Corning offers more than 7,000 products and services under the Dow Corning and XIAMETER brands. Dow Corning is a joint venture in which The Dow Chemical Company and Corning Incorporated are equally shared. Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA, the company has more than 12,000 employees worldwide with 45 manufacturing facilities and warehousing facilities worldwide. The company's sales in 2011 reached $6.43 billion. More than half of sales come from outside the United States. Innovation is at the heart of Dow Corning's business. The company spends about 4-5% of its annual sales on R&D and has approximately 4,500 active patents worldwide. Dow Corning's operations around the world follow the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care program. Responsible Care is a set of rigorous standards established to promote and ensure the safety management of chemical products and processes and processes.
Dow Corning also owns a majority stake in the Hemlock Semiconductor Group. Hemlock Semiconductor is the world's leading supplier of polysilicon and silicon-based products for the production of semiconductor devices, solar cells and modules. Hemlock Semiconductor began operations in 1961 and has announced more than $4 billion in investments since 2005. Over the past seven years, Dow Corning and Hemlock Semiconductor Group have announced investments of more than $5 billion in R&D and expansion of production capacity for materials critical to the solar industry.
Founded in 1943 to explore and develop the potential of silicones, Dow Corning is a global leader in silicon-based technology and innovation.
Dow Corning in China
As early as 1973, the company set up its first office in Hong Kong. In recent years, Dow Corning has grown rapidly in China, with a total investment of more than $2 billion. With six offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hong Kong and Taipei, as well as two major manufacturing sites and one business technology center in Zhangjiagang and Shanghai, Dow Corning not only provides a variety of products and services to customers across the country, but also gradually brings the world's leading silicone products, services and production technologies to China.
Dow Corning's first manufacturing facility in China was opened in 1997 in Songjiang, Shanghai. Since then, the company has continued to invest in the Songjiang plant, expanding its production capacity to manufacture newly developed finished products as well as new applications and products developed by Dow Corning's China Business Technology Center.
The Dow Corning China Business Technology Center is located in the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Pudong, Shanghai. The business technology center significantly enhances the company's innovation capabilities and demonstrates Dow Corning's ongoing and long-term commitment to the Chinese market. The new Dow Corning Business Technology Center brings together hundreds of scientists, engineers, and marketing experts to develop innovative solutions that improve the quality of life for people in China by solving critical problems. One of the center's specific goals is to improve customer service by shortening the innovation cycle, turning market opportunities and innovative ideas into profitable solutions.
Silicone materials have unlimited potential to improve, transform and create a better quality of life. The silicone industry will continue to meet the needs of its customers in providing high-performance, innovative and reliable materials. As a global leader in this field, Dow Corning is committed to contributing to China's success by producing and promoting the power of silicones and their applications. Dow Corning's innovative products and solutions are used in iconic infrastructure such as the Expo 2010 Theme Pavilion and the China Pavilion, the Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing subway platforms, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
Dow Corning actively supports sustainability in China. Like other production sites around the world, the company is committed to sustainability at its production sites in China, with an Environmental, Health, Safety and Security (EHSS) management system that responds to the Responsible Care initiative. The initiative aims to improve the safety management of chemical products and processes through a rigorous set of international standards. Dow Corning is committed to continuing to improve its environmental, health and safety performance, while sharing best practices with its chemical peers in China to provide industry solutions to some of the biggest issues facing Chinese society.
