International. The Dow Chemical reported that it has made some significant changes in the last six months in order to strengthen investments within its polyurethane line.
For that reason, Mark Bassett has recently been appointed as global vice president of Dow Polyurethanes, and will be responsible for business strategy, profit and loss, as well as innovation and growth. Previously, the professional served as the vice president of Dow Oxygenated Solvents.
This strategy seeks to bring the franchise on a trajectory of continued growth for the next three to five years.
Similarly, Dow confirmed that in addition to the plant in which it works with Saudi Arabian Oil Co. that has a capacity of three million metric tons where it plans to offer propylene glycol (PG), polyether polyol and isocyanate by 2016; It also expects to start in about 12 months at a second plant in Thailand, which adds to the existing ones located in Belgium.
