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Dow Chemical Ibérica presents the global corporate report
25/07/2005
on July 25, 2005
Dow Chemical Ibérica has submitted three reports with the results of the financial year 2004 to the media: the corporate report, with the results of The Dow Chemical Company; the report public of Dow Chemical Ibérica with the results of this region and the facilities of Tarragona, which is only published on the internet.
Sustainable development is one of the top priorities of Dow and in this sense, the three reports are structured on the basis of the triple bottom line that takes into account the balance economic, environmental and social.
The global corporate report, which examines the results of Dow from the perspective of the stakeholders of the company has been presented with the title "Towards tomorrow": investors, employees, customers and the communities where we live and work. Dow the firm commitment to financial discipline has resulted in a closure of record sales of DM millions of dollars and a profit of $2.93 per share. All this, despite the huge increase in the cost of raw materials that amounted to $ 3.4 billion.
The public report of Dow Iberian highlights the positive results achieved in 2004. But the main character of 2004 has undoubtedly been Dow Tarragona. So much so that Dow has published a report on the internet referred only to the facilities of Tarragona, which has become one of the sites most important Dow, not only because of its strategic location, but because of its size. After the conversion of the plant's Insite is already producing Versify, a breakthrough in the Union of the Propylene/ethylene which opens a new world of opportunities for converters of polymers, processors and policymakers in the form of new products, new applications and new markets. The plastómeros and elastomer Versify are intended for markets of importance as the packaging of food and other products of mass consumption. Transparency and its sealing properties improve both safety and aesthetics of packaging of products. It has become one of the sites most important Dow, not only because of its strategic location, but because of its size.
