Asia Pacific

Dow Appointed Key Sponsor of Shanghai Eco House for World Expo 2010

Shanghai, China - May 31, 2009

Dow has been appointed as a lead sponsor and supplier to the Shanghai Eco-House for World Expo 2010, a unique zero energy consumption building which will be one of the highlights of the Shanghai Expo. Dow Building Solutions is the only provider of roofing insulation products for Shanghai Eco-House, with the outstanding product performance of its roofing insulation boards - Styrofoam™ passing the organizing committee’s rigorous screening criteria.

The Shanghai Eco-House will be at the northern residential cluster of the Expo’s Urban Best Practices Area, with a construction area of some 3,000 square meters. As China’s first ‘zero energy consumption’ eco-house demonstration project in China, it embodies the sustainable eco-house philosophy and explores universally applicable habitable home models.

On May 31, 2009, Dow attended the signing ceremony of 22 World Expo Shanghai Eco-House sponsoring enterprises at Shanghai Research Institute of Building Science (SRIBS), with officials from Shanghai Municipal Construction Commission, SRIBS and Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design (Group).

	Michael Ning(2nd from Right) with Shanghai Government Officials

“Dow’s appointment as the roofing insulation product sponsor for Shanghai Eco-House gives us the perfect global showcase for our success in helping customers in energy efficiency and emission reductions in construction, building on our 60 years of experience in this essential market,” said Michael Ning, Asia Pacific Public Affairs Leader of Dow Chemical.

“‘As a global diversified chemical company, we have always  advocated using our international sustainable development experience, products and  advanced technologies to help solve the most urgent challenges for China in water, energy and the environment . This vision will be shown to the world again with at Shanghai Eco-house in May next year.”

Shanghai Eco-House interprets the new eco house concept of “paying attention to environmental protection and energy efficiency, advocating a LOHAS life”, and demonstrates an ideal eco house and the state-of-the-art ecological, green, energy-saving technologies of the future. It will become the yardstick for the future development of urban living and architecture. Given its important position in the World Expo and its tremendous influence on the future residential environment, Shanghai Eco-House has attracted active participation from well-known building material enterprises from the world.    

A further Shanghai Expo note: More than 150 Dow employees will work as volunteers in roles such as commentators, journalists and information sources at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, after Dow become the first company to sign a contract with the Chinese government to be a volunteer base for the Expo Exhibition Center.

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