Dow Receives 2017 U.S. EPA Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award
May 16 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Dow recognized for development and promotion of safer product
alternatives
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) was named a 2017 Safer
Choice Partner of the Year winner by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) at a ceremony on May 15, in Oxen Hill, MD.
Dow was recognized in the Safer Choice Innovator category for two
sustainable product innovations, ECOSURF™ EH Surfactants and
BLUEDGE™ Polymeric Flame Retardant (FR) Technology.
“Dow is at the forefront of developing products that provide
sustainable and safer alternatives, while delivering the
performance customers expect,” said Neil Hawkins, Dow’s chief
sustainability officer and corporate vice president of Environment,
Health and Safety. “We are pleased to receive this EPA recognition
of our approach to value chain innovation. Chemistry and
materials science innovations are fundamental to
sustainability.”
This recognition supports Dow’s commitment to achieve its 2025
Sustainability Goals, particularly the goal of Increasing
Confidence in Chemical Technology, where the company is focusing on
increasing confidence in the safe use of chemical technology
through transparency, dialogue, unprecedented collaboration and
research. The Safer Choice award highlights Dow’s commitment to
innovation towards safer and more sustainable chemistries. The
award also recognizes Dow’s commitment to the Safer Choice
community, its extensive collaborative ingredient reviews for new
and existing chemicals, and promotion of safer products and the
Safer Choice program.
Learn more about Dow’s innovations in safer chemistry below:
ECOSURF™ EH SURFACTANT – Safer Choice challenged Dow to
further address a potential toxicology concern for one of our
products – ECOSURF™ EH-9 Surfactant that would impact the listing
status of the product in the Program. After close collaboration and
productive scientific discussions, a study was designed to clarify
the scientific understanding of the Dow chemistry, which eventually
led to a Safer Chemical Ingredient List status change. The
collaboration is a great example of using the best science to
define product safety and support the promotion of more sustainable
choices for our customers.
“Sustainability is a key driver in our innovation strategy,”
said Ester Baiget, business president for Dow Industrial Solutions.
“ECOSURF™ EH Surfactants enable superior hard surface cleaning
performance with an improved environmental profile. The development
of these specialty surfactants demonstrates our commitment to
researching the in-use effects of our products, preventing chemical
risks, and understanding their long-term sustainability.”
BLUEDGE™ Polymeric Flame Retardant Technology is an
innovation that is transforming the market as the next-generation
industry standard flame retardant for use in polystyrene foam
insulation. Historically, hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) had been
used as the flame retardant in polystyrene foam insulation, but
HBCD is facing global regulatory pressures that are driving its
phase-out. After evaluating more than 100 potential substitutes,
Dow developed BLUEDGE™ Technology, an inherently-low-toxicity
additive that provides a fire safety solution for XPS and EPS
foams. Dow has made the technology available to the global
polystyrene foam insulation industry through three manufacturing
and marketing licensees, enabling XPS and EPS thermal insulation
materials to continue to meet the increasing demands of energy
efficiency regulations and sustainable building design.
“BLUEDGE™ Technology is evidence that science and technology can
answer the world’s most pressing challenges when no other solution
exists,” said Ralf Brinkmann, business president for Dow Building
& Construction. “This invention makes it possible for energy
efficient building materials – like STYROFOAM™ Brand Insulation –
to continue sustainable advancement today and into the future.”
The third annual Safer Choice Partner of the Year Awards
recognize program participants for advancing the goal of chemical
safety. Safer Choice program participants are continually driving
innovation to make chemical products safer.
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
subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information
about Dow can be found at www.dow.com.
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