Dow Attends Window Door Facade Expo China 2021, Honored with "Users Choice Award" and "Architecture & Technology Polaris Award"

GUANGZHOU, China, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Building and Infrastructure, a global business unit of Dow, is featuring its cutting-edge products and solutions at the Window Door Facade Expo China 2021 (Booth #6C02), from March 11 to 13 in Guangzhou. As it displays its latest achievements, such as the DOWSIL™650 PPC, Dow is demonstrating its leading position in providing high-performance and sustainable solutions in the window, door and facade field for commercial buildings and interiors. Dow has also been awarded the Users Choice Award and the Architecture & Technology Polaris Award at the expo for its exceptional product performance and advanced innovative technology.

"The Window Door Facade Expo China is a significant platform for China's window, door and facade industry, focusing on pioneering technology and emerging market trends. As one of the first companies to participate in the expo, Dow has always regarded it as a valuable opportunity to showcase our innovative R&D achievements and communicate with people in all circles of the industry," said Jean Paul Hautekeer, Global Strategic Market Director, Building and Infrastructure, Dow Consumer Solutions. "Innovation is in Dow's brand DNA. As China's 14th Five-Year Plan upholds the central role of innovation in its modernization drive, Dow is also committed to merging exploration with practice, and accelerating the advancement of our technology and products to better meet the ever-changing demands, empowering China's construction industry as a whole. In the future, we will continue to take full advantage of our great innovation capabilities, advanced technology and significant R&D manufacturing foot-print in China to further contribute to the development of the silicone market in China and all over the world."

Dow's two prestigious awards at the exhibition not only reflect recognition of its solutions from industry experts and users, but also demonstrate Dow's innovative capabilities in the window, door and facade field. The Architecture & Technology Polaris Award is known as the "Nobel Prize" of China's construction industry and aims to explore innovative and practical new construction products each year. The Users Choice Award generated from "The Preferred Brand List" and is also renowned as a top-tier industry award, rewarding users' most trusted brands after comprehensive statistics and evaluation.

During the exhibition, Dow is displaying a range of innovative high performance products to meet the ever-changing needs of the industry and contribute to the development of the window, door and facade field. The products include:

Products for Commercial Building:

• DOWSIL™650 Protective Peelable Coating: A waterborne peelable acrylic coating with low VOC formulation for temporary protection application. It is suitable to many substrates including glass, metal, and plastics. It offers temporary protection against dust, stain, grease, and even weld slag. It can easily be peeled off when the protection is no longer required. There is no damage to the surface and there is no residue left on the substrate. It remains an excellent peel-off capability even under long UV and weather exposure.
• DOWSIL™ FIRESTOP 700 Sealant: A low modulus, one-part, neutral curing, fire rated, low modulus silicone sealant that offers excellent adhesion to a range of common construction substrates including beton, steel, masonry and brick. DOWSIL™ FIRESTOP 700 Sealant is specially designed for weather sealing of curtain walling, building facades and expansion joints where a fire rating is required. It is also widely utilized in penetration sealing systems where pipes and cables pass through fire rated structures.
• DOWSIL™ 993N Structural Glazing Sealant: A two-component, neutral curing silicone adhesive/sealant formulation specifically developed for the structural bonding of glass, metal and other building components. It exhibits excellent weathering properties and has high resistance to ultraviolet radiation, heat and humidity once cured. This high-modulus sealant has excellent adhesion to a wide range of materials and is a gold standard in practice. The new and improved version offers greatly improved elongation and a higher extrusion rate at a great value. It has been awarded 2021 BIG Innovation Award.

Products for Interior Decoration:

• DOWSIL™ F4 High Performance Kitchen and Bathroom Mould Resistant Sealant: A high performance neutral cure silicone sealant that provides durable mildew resistance in high temperature and high humidity environments. It has a good adhesion to a broad range of building materials and suitable for kitchens (washbasins, cabinets) and bathrooms (washbasins, toilets, bathtubs, shower rooms, etc.). This sealant conforms to GB/T 1741-2007 (class 0 anti-mildew) and ASTM G21 (class 0 anti-mildew).
• DOWSIL™ Green Multiple Purpose Silicone Sealant: A high performance neutral cure silicone sealant. It can be widely used for sealing in cabinet, footline, partition, gaps in balcony and other indoor decoration applications. Also, it can be used for sealing in general industrial applications. DOWSIL™ Green Multiple Purpose Silicone Sealant is a multi-purpose sealant of low modulus, high elasticity, high stretchability, low VOC formulation, resistance to UV, low odor, and environmentally friendly.
• DOWSIL™ 211 Adhesive: A high strength multifunctional adhesive with good adhesion to various materials and outstanding initial strength. Experimental results show that after fully cured, its strength can reach 2.0 Mpa, equivalent to 20kg /cm2. DOWSIL™ 211 adhesive is suitable for the adhesion and sealing of hand grip, hook, decorative picture, scutcheon, decorative line, stair treads, door and window frames, gypsum boards, various plates, and stones, etc. It can easily change color according to requirements by painting.

To better inform industry partners and users about Dow's advanced products on show, Dow will hold a "DOWSIL Webinar" during the expo at 15:00 on both March 11 and 12. Jian Cao and Xu Chen, senior technical experts of Dow Building and Infrastructure, Greater China, will lead the livestream to introduce the latest Dow products on display at the expo. The livestream will simultaneously be broadcast at the Dow booth at the expo (Booth #6C02) and the official DOWSIL^TM WeChat account "陶熙建筑有机硅", visually showcasing the efficiency and durability of Dow's silicone products.

Dow is also actively embracing the digital transformation trend of China's manufacturing industry, exploring and expanding its e-commerce channels. Since the DOWSIL™ flagship stores have launched on Tmall and JD.com, they have successfully provided convenient services to customers in remote areas and other customers with tailored needs. Frank Zhu, Greater China Building and Infrastructure, Home and Personal Care Sales Director, Dow Consumer Solutions, said, "With the changes in consumer habits caused by the new normal of pandemic, Dow is actively exploring the path of digitalization in the manufacturing industry to better serve our customers. We will continue to deliver digital innovations while maintaining our traditional businesses to bring customers more convenient, professional, and reliable solutions."

Since 2018, silicone products of DOW CORNING^® brand have been renamed DOWSIL™ brand globally. Through innovative development, DOWSIL™ products will continue to provide customers with advanced products and solutions. With consistent world-class quality and innovation that drives forward the industry, DOWSIL™ brand will work together with customers to create a blueprint for the construction industry of the future and energize the new ecosystem of the window, door and facade field.

About Dow Building and Infrastructure

Dow Building and Infrastructure, part of Dow Consumer Solutions, collaborates with industry professionals around the world to develop solutions to enhance design and aesthetics, increase durability, advance the energy efficiency of buildings, and improve the health and safety of building occupants. Taking a holistic approach, Dow brings together expertise from across the company to help customers find solutions to a wide range of high-performance building challenges. Featuring DOWSIL™ brand products – the same long-trusted products previously sold under the DOW CORNING^® brand – Dow's high-performance building solutions include proven materials for structural and protective glazing, weatherproofing, insulating glass, window and door fabrication, and building materials protection, as well as innovations for high-efficiency insulation, LED lighting, thermal management systems, and the incorporation of photovoltaic cells and solar panels into building design. Visit www.dow.com/construction to learn more.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company, with a purpose to deliver a sustainable future for the world through our materials science expertise and collaboration with our partners. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer care. Dow operates 106 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 35,700 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $39 billion in 2020. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.