Dow Inc.

Japanese: ダウ(英語表記)Dow Inc.
Dow Inc.
A comprehensive chemical manufacturer in the United States. Founded in 1897 by Herbert H. Dow to produce chlorine by bleaching wastewater from Midland Chemical, which extracts bromine. In 1900, the company merged with Midland Chemical and Dow Process, and reorganized to form Dow Chemical in 1947. During this time, the company expanded its business by establishing subsidiaries Dow Chemical Canada in 1942 and Dow Corning in 1943. It also actively expanded overseas, establishing subsidiaries mainly in Europe. The company's business was centered on the chemical and metal division, which produced chlorine, caustic soda, organic chemical products, magnesium, etc., as well as the plastic and packaging materials division, which produced ABS resin, polyethylene, and coating agents, and the consumer goods division, which produced agricultural chemicals. At one time, the company tried to diversify its business, but then changed course, proceeding with the sale of its pharmaceutical and household goods divisions and expanding its sales channels to Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and other regions. DowDuPont acquired Union Carbide in 1999 and Rohm and Haas in 2009. In 2017, it completed a merger with DuPont to form the holding company DowDuPont. In 2019, the company's materials science business was spun off into a new company, Dow.

Dow
Dow, Herbert H.

Born: February 26, 1866 in Bellville, Canada
[Died] October 15, 1930, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. American industrial chemist. Full name Herbert Henry Dow. Studied at the Case School of Applied Science. He devoted himself to research into the electrolysis of bromine from saltwater, which he succeeded in commercializing. This became the basis for the founding of Dow Chemical in 1897. He also succeeded in producing magnesium sulfate from saltwater, and was the first American manufacturer of synthetic dyes. He held over 65 patents, and was awarded the Perkin Medal in 1930.

Dow
Dow, Neal

Born March 20, 1804 in Portland, Maine.
Died: October 2, 1897, Portland, Maine. American politician and temperance activist. He founded the Maine Temperance Union in 1838, served as mayor of Portland from 1851 to 1858, and succeeded in passing prohibition into state law in 1851. He served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war, he resumed the temperance movement, and ran for president in 1880 as a member of the Prohibition Party.

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Japanese:
アメリカ合衆国の総合化学メーカー。1897年臭素抽出を行なうミッドランド・ケミカルの廃水を漂白して塩素を製造するためにハーバート・H.ダウによって設立された。1900年ミッドランド・ケミカル,ダウ・プロセスの両社を合併,1947年に改組してダウ・ケミカルを設立。この間 1942年には子会社ダウ・ケミカル・カナダ,1943年にはダウ・コーニングを設立して事業を拡大,さらに海外事業も積極的に展開し,ヨーロッパを中心に子会社を設立した。塩素,カセイソーダ,有機化学製品,マグネシウムなどを生産する化学・金属部門を中心に ABS樹脂,ポリエチレン,コーティング剤などのプラスチック・包装資材部門,農薬などの消費財部門で事業展開した。一時期は事業の多角化に努めたが路線を転換し,医薬品,家庭用品部門の売却を進めるとともに,中南米や東ヨーロッパ,アジアなどへの販路拡大をはかった。1999年にユニオン・カーバイド,2009年にはローム・アンド・ハースを買収。2017年にはデュポンとの対等経営統合を完了,持株会社ダウ・デュポンが設立された。2019年に素材科学事業部門が新会社ダウとして分離独立した。

ダウ
Dow, Herbert H.

[生]1866.2.26. カナダ,ベルビル
[没]1930.10.15. アメリカ合衆国,ミネソタ,ロチェスター
アメリカ合衆国の工業化学者。フルネーム Herbert Henry Dow。ケース応用科学学校に学んだ。電解法で塩水から臭素を取り出す研究に専念し,その企業化に成功した。これが 1897年のダウ・ケミカル(→ダウ)創立の基礎となった。塩水から硫酸マグネシウムをつくることにも成功し,またアメリカで初めて合成染料の製造を手がけた。65をこえる特許を取り,1930年パーキン・メダルを授与された。

ダウ
Dow, Neal

[生]1804.3.20. メーン,ポートランド
[没]1897.10.2. メーン,ポートランド
アメリカの政治家,禁酒運動家。 1838年メーン禁酒同盟を設立して,51~58年ポートランド市長をつとめ,51年州立法による禁酒法の制定を成功させた。南北戦争には北軍准将として活躍。戦後禁酒運動を再開し,80年の大統領選挙には禁酒党から立候補した。

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