Dow Corning provides performance-enhanced solutions that meet the different needs of more than 25,000 customers worldwide. As a global leader in silicone, silicon-based technologies and innovation, Dow Corning offers over 7,000 products and services through the DowCorning brand and the XIAMETER brand. Dow Corning is a joint venture with equal shares of Dow Chemical and Corning. The company is headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. It has 45 production bases and warehousing facilities around the world, with more than 12,000 employees worldwide. The company's sales reached US$6.43 billion in 2011. More than half of sales come from outside the United States. Innovation is the core of Dow Corning's business. The company spends about R&D annually on approximately 4-5% of sales and owns approximately 4,500 valid patents worldwide. Dow Corning’s operations around the world follow the American Chemical Commission’s Responsible Care Program. Responsible care is a set of strict standards formulated to promote and ensure the safety management of chemical products, processes and processes.

Dow Corning also owns a majority stake in the HemlockSemiconductor Group. HemlockSemiconductor is the world's leading supplier of polysilicon and silicon-based products for the production of semiconductor equipment, solar cells and modules. In 1961, HemlockSemiconductor began operations and has announced an investment of more than US$4 billion since 2005. Over the past seven years, Dow Corning and Hemlock Semiconductor Group have announced investments of more than $5 billion to develop and expand the capacity of materials that are critical to the development of the solar industry.

Founded in 1943, Dow Corning is committed to exploring and developing the application potential of silicones. It is now a global leader in the field of silicon-based technology and innovation.

Dow Corning in China

As early as 1973, the company established its first office in Hong Kong. In recent years, Dow Corning has developed rapidly in China, with a total investment of more than US$2 billion. Up to now, Dow Corning has 6 offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hong Kong and Taipei, and has 2 major production bases and 1 business technology center in Zhangjiagang and Shanghai, which not only provides customers across the country. Various products and services have also gradually brought the world's leading silicone products, services and production technologies to China.

Dow Corning's first production base in China was built in Songjiang, Shanghai in 1997. Since then, the company has continued to increase investment in the Songjiang factory to expand its production capacity to manufacture newly developed finished products and new applications and new products developed by Dow Corning China Business Technology Center.

Dow Corning China Business Technology Center is located in Zhangjiang High-Tech Park, Pudong, Shanghai. The Business Technology Center has greatly improved the company's innovation capabilities and fully reflects Dow Corning's continuous and long-term commitment to the Chinese market. The new Dow Corning Business Technology Center brings together hundreds of scientists, engineers and marketing experts to develop more innovative solutions to improve the quality of life of Chinese people by solving various major problems. A specific goal of the center is to improve customer service by shortening the innovation cycle and transform market opportunities and innovative ideas into profitable solutions.

Silicone materials have unlimited potential in improving, transforming and creating a better quality of life. The silicone industry will continue to meet customers’ needs in delivering high-performance, innovative and trustworthy materials. As a global science and technology leader in this field, Dow Corning is committed to making the successful development of China by vigorously producing and promoting silicone, a magical material and application. Dow Corning's innovative products and solutions have been applied in many of the domestic landmark infrastructure, such as the theme hall of the 2010 World Expo and the National Pavilion of China, the subway stations of Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the National Grand Theater.

Dow Corning actively supports sustainable development in China. Like other production bases all over the world, the company also actively implements the concept of sustainable development in its production bases in China, and its environmental, health, safety and security (EHSS) management system actively responds to the "Responsible Care" initiative. The initiative aims to improve the safety management of chemical products and process processes through a strict set of international standards. Dow Corning promises to continue to improve its performance in the environment, health and safety, while sharing best practice experience with its Chinese chemical peers to provide industry solutions to certain major issues facing Chinese society.