Dow Earns Two 2017 Edison Awards for Breakthrough Technologies
April 21 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
ACCUTRACE™ S10 Molecular Fuel Marker and CANVERA™ Polyolefin
Dispersions recognized as ‘best of the best’ new innovations that
are changing the world
Two innovative products from The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:
DOW) recently received 2017 Edison Awards. The Edison Awards honor
excellence in new product and service development, marketing,
human-centered design, and innovation. A silver Edison Award went
to Dow’s ACCUTRACE™ S10 Molecular Fuel Marker used to combat fuel
tax evasion. Dow’s CANVERA™ Polyolefin Dispersions for metal can
coating received a bronze award.
“With a seat at our customers’ design table, we continue to
bring forward breakthrough innovations that solve complex problems
and serve the market,” said A.N. Sreeram, senior vice president,
R&D, and chief technology officer for Dow. “Edison was a
prolific inventor whose success is linked in part to his business
sense and understanding of societal needs. For Dow, we continue to
see the greatest success in delivering products that are meeting
customer needs and solving the world’s most pressing challenges. We
are grateful for this recognition of our market-disrupting
products.”
Selected from hundreds of finalists, the winners were announced
on April 20 at the Edison Awards Gala in New York City. Learn more
about these award-winning technologies below.
Dow ACCUTRACE™ S10 Molecular Fuel Marker empowers
governments to fight back against the revenue loss and dangerous
environmental impact of criminal fuel tax evasion. ACCUTRACE™ S10
is highly resistant to removal through known fuel laundering
techniques, authenticates petroleum products for their intended
use, such as agriculture and home heating, and prevents them being
sold into higher taxed uses, such as vehicles for road transport.
ACCUTRACE™ and the Falcon Analytical CALIDUS™ MT transportable gas
chromatography (GC) unit form a robust fuel marking and detection
system that allows governments to enforce tax law and prevent
criminal activity. It is highly resistant to naturally occurring or
illicit laundering of the marker out of fuel.
“We are honored to have the ACCUTRACE™ S10 fuel marker
recognized as an Edison Awards winner,” said Ester Baiget, business
president, Dow Industrial Solutions. “This highly respected
accolade recognizes not only the strength of our market-driven
innovation, but also the diligent collaboration between Dow and
Falcon, supplier of the CALIDUS™ portable GC detection unit. This
concerted effort to combat fuel fraud demonstrates the power of
chemistry and science to address real world challenges.”
Dow CANVERA™ Polyolefin Dispersions provides progressive
food and beverage brand owners with a can coating made from
polyethylene resins, replacing epoxy coating systems using BPA,
bisphenols, epoxies and other materials of concern to consumers and
regulators. CANVERA™ uses Dow’s proprietary and patented BLUEWAVE™
dispersion technology to create an aqueous polyolefin dispersion,
applied directly to the interior metal surface of cans using the
same equipment as current epoxy coatings. CANVERA™ makes a very
thin, protective, thermoplastic lining with excellent food and
flavor retention, adhesion, corrosion protection, and film
flexibility. CANVERA™ polyolefin dispersions utilize the existing
can-making infrastructure, facilitating world-wide adoption.
“Dow Coating Materials has been working on this progressive
technology for several years, and it is really exciting to finally
see it being adopted by the market place,” said Neil Carr, business
president, Dow Coating Materials, Performance Monomers and Plastic
Additives. “CANVERA™ Polyolefin Dispersions offer a genuine
breakthrough in can coatings, and are a great testimony of our
business’s ability to deliver science-based, sustainable solutions
that aim to improve people’s lives.”
The Edison Awards namesake, Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), was
an American-born inventor and businessman. Over the course of his
life, Edison received a staggering 1,093 U.S. patents for
market-disrupting technologies such as the electric light bulb and
phonograph.
Dow shares in Edison’s passion for ingenuity and patent
productivity; the Company was named for the sixth consecutive year
to the Clarivate Analytics Top 100 Global Innovators List, which
recognizes corporations and institutions around the world that are
at the heart of innovation, as measured by a series of proprietary
patent-related metrics.
Dow’s research and development engine was responsible for 754
U.S. patents granted in 2016; the eighth consecutive annual
increase and an all-time record high for Dow. Such patents, based
on Dow innovation, help drive patent-advantaged sales that
represent more than 20 percent of Dow’s revenue.
For more information about Dow’s leading science and sustainable
innovations, visit
www.dow.com/en-us/science-and-sustainability.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from material,
polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of
the world's most challenging problems, such as the need for fresh
food, safer and more sustainable transportation, clean water,
energy efficiency, more durable infrastructure, and increasing
agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven
portfolio delivers a broad range of technology-based products and
solutions to customers in 175 countries and in high-growth sectors
such as packaging, infrastructure, transportation, consumer care,
electronics, and agriculture. In 2016, Dow had annual sales of $48
billion and employed approximately 56,000 people worldwide. The
Company's more than 7,000 product families are manufactured at 189
sites in 34 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the
"Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated
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