Dow placed the first stone of the new centre of r & d in Ribaforada

Coinciding with the anniversary of her 30th birthday, Dow put the month of October the first stone of the new technology centre for research and development, chaired by Miguel Sanz Sesma, President of the autonomous community of Navarre, and Juan Antonio Merino, global director of the polyurethane systems business. Dow in Ribaforada facilities are part of the business of Dow Polyurethane Systems, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, with 26 centers scattered around the world in working around 775 employees (including both development and manufacturing centres as centres of service).

Dow has in Ribaforada 16,000 square meters of facilities in the Industrial Estate of San Pancrazio. In these installations, the centres of production, quality control laboratory, the Centre for development of products, stores, and sales and administration offices employing over 40 people are located. Together with the development of products, the main activity of Dow Ribaforada is the production of formulated polyols and prepolímeros for the market of Spain and Portugal. Since sometimes it also caters to countries such as China, Turkey, Egypt, India or France. Moreover, thanks to the enormous versatility of the chemistry of the urethane polyurethane systems produced at the headquarters of Dow in Ribaforada is used in a large number of final applications in different industrial sectors, among which we highlight the industry of footwear (soles)(, templates), construction (isolation by projection, sandwich panels for industrial buildings enclosing), the industry of cold (refrigerators, chest freezers, commercial exhibitors and cold storage), the furniture sector, and the automotive industry (soundproofing, steering wheels, filters, seats).