Dow to Showcase Innovative Plastics Solutions at Chinaplas 2016

SHANGHAI, CHINA – April 6, 2016 –The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) will bring its holistic plastics solutions to Chinaplas 2016, Asia’s biggest plastics and rubber trade fair, in Shanghai from April 25 to 28. Dow’s Performance Plastics showcase - themed “Delivering Solutions, Unlocking Opportunities” - will be located at booth J41 in Hall N2 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC).

As a leading global supplier in high performance resins, adhesives, and polyolefin elastomers, Dow Performance Plastics is at the forefront of innovative solutions to address key challenges in high growth markets like packaging, personal hygiene, consumer durables and transportation.  As the go-to innovator for targeted industry sectors across Asia Pacific, Dow Performance Plastics focuses on providing technologically advanced and customizable solutions for its customers.

Dow Performance Plastics is well known around the world for its successful commercial business units - Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), Dow Elastomers, and Dow Electrical & Telecommunications.  Together, these businesses will highlight innovative technologies and solutions applied to key market segments like agriculture, consumer durables, electrical and telecommunications, flexible packaging, hot-melt and laminating adhesives, health and hygiene, infrastructure, industrial packaging and transportation.

Five new products will be presented for the first time at the 30^th edition of Chinaplas.  For Dow P&SP, these include INNATE™ Precision Packaging Resins, AGILITY™ Performance Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Resins, ELITE™ Advanced Technology (AT) Polyethylene Resins for agricultural film and OPULUX^TM Optical Finishes.  INNATE^TM Precision Packaging Resins was recently awarded the 2016 Ringier Technology Innovation Award in the category of “Plastics Raw Materials and Additives”. This is the first accolade since the product was launched globally in October 2015.

Dow EE&T will showcase INTUNE^TM Polypropylene-based Olefin Block Copolymers (OBCs) at Chinaplas. INTUNE™ makes it possible to combine polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) to create innovative, highly differentiated polymer blends and multi-layer structures that are compatible with existing processing technology and provide the best benefits of each material.  INTUNE is the second disruptive innovation made using Dow’s proprietary olefin block copolymer platform and was recently honored with the 43^rd Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award, a prestigious biennial recognition that honors the most noteworthy chemical-engineering technology commercialized anywhere in the world.

Dow will also be conducting a series of engagement events and seminars for customers during the tradeshow, focusing on our key solutions to unlock more opportunities for business growth.

About Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics

The largest business unit in Dow, Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) delivers annual revenues of ~US$14 billion and is one of the largest materials suppliers to the global packaging industry. With 3,800 employees, 48 plants and 28 sites spread across 16 countries, the business focuses on high growth markets in food packaging, industrial packaging, personal hygiene, and transmission pipe. P&SP is a leading innovator and collaborates across multiple value chains on new and improved products and applications that meet or exceed customer expectations.

Visit http://www.dow.com/performanceplastics/ for more information. Follow Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

About Dow Elastomers

Dow Elastomers, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), is the world’s leading producer of polyolefin elastomers, with the industry’s broadest product portfolio, and the largest global producer of metallocene EPDM, with more than 40 years of experience serving the global adhesives, consumer goods, infrastructure and transportation industries, among others.  Dow Elastomers is the only producer with world-scale trains on three continents, and is further investing for innovation and growth and bolstering its global capacity, differentiated product portfolio and rich innovation engine through investments in world-scale trains in the U.S. Gulf Coast and in Sadara Chemical Company. Visit http://www.dow.com/elastomers/ for more information.

About Dow Electrical and Telecommunications

Dow Electrical & Telecommunications, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), is a leading global provider of products, technology, solutions and knowledge that sets standards for reliability, longevity, efficiency, ease of installation and protection that the power and telecommunications industries can count on in the transmission, distribution and consumption of power, voice and data. Understanding that collaboration is essential to success, Dow E&T works together with cable makers, other industry suppliers, utilities, municipalities, testing institutes and other organizations around the world to help develop solutions and create mutual value that will sustain these industries for years to come.  Visit http://www.dow.com/electrical/ for more information.

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 clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2015, Dow had annual sales of nearly $49 billion and employed approximately 49,500 people worldwide. The Company's more than 6,000 product families are manufactured at 179 sites in 35 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.

For further information contact:

Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics Ms. Juno Chen Email: jchen11@dow.com Tel: +65 6417 3883	Ms. Jolynn Yeo Email: j.yeo@dow.com Tel: +65 6830 4608
Dow Elastomers, Electrical and Telecommunications Ms. Juliana Foo Email: foo@dow.com Tel: +65 6830 4583