The Dow Chemical Company (Public, NYSE:DOW)

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The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is a diversified chemical company. The Company is engaged in the manufacture and sale of chemicals, plastic materials, agricultural and other specialized products and services. The Company has 150 manufacturing sites in 35 countries and produces approximately 3,300 products. Dow operates in six segments: Performance Plastics, Performance Chemicals, Agricultural Sciences, Basic Plastics, Basic Chemicals, and Hydrocarbons and Energy. The Company is also engaged in the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance business primarily through its Liana Limited subsidiaries. In January 2009, the Company announced that its thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) business was acquired by Lubrizol Corporation. In July 2008, JPS Industries Inc. announced that it had completed the sale of its Stevens Roofing and Geomembrane business unit and related assets to Dow Building Solutions (DBS), a market-facing unit of The Dow Chemical Company

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company(Public, NYSE:DD)

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
(Public, NYSE:DD)

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) operates a range of products and services for markets, including agriculture and food, building and construction, electronics and communications, general industrial, and transportation. The Company is organized in six segments: Agriculture & Nutrition, Coatings & Color Technologies, Electronic & Communication Technologies, Performance Materials, Safety & Protection and Pharmaceuticals. The Company includes embryonic businesses, such as applied biosciences and nonaligned businesses in Other. The Company had operations in approximately 90 countries worldwide and about 64 % of consolidated net sales are made to customers outside the United States of America during the year ended December 31, 2008. In October 2008, the Company acquired Coastal Training Technologies Corporation. On February 1, 2008, DuPont acquired Chemtura Fluorine Chemicals Business.