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Dow Chemical Company acquires Rohm and Haas

Posted in Latest News on 19th May 2009

Dow Chemical Company has completed the acquisition of specialty materials and global coatings producer Rohm and Haas. The alliance brings together the coatings portfolio of Rohm and Haas Paint Coatings Materials Division and Dow Coating Solutions to form Dow Coating Materials.

The new Dow Coating Materials is now claimed to be the largest global coatings supplier of raw materials to formulators of architectural and industrial coatings around the world. The new Dow Coating Materials strengthens the company's technology offering for paint and coating customers.

'We have joined together two excellent R&D, commercial, manufacturing, supply chain and technical service organizations – and created a broadened technology portfolio that will enable our coatings customers to bring new and differentiated products to market anywhere in the world,' said Luis Fernandez, vice president of Dow Coating Materials.

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