Established in 2012, Dow Chengdu Office is Dow's business and customer service Center for the local market. 2018 Dow Chengdu Innovation Day: Advocating collaborative innovation to drive business grow

Dow Chemical's ' 2018 Dow Innovation Day ' was held in Chengdu, where more than 90 representatives from government, academia, customers, partners and Dow came together to explore how to accelerate innovation through deep collaboration and to meet the growing market demand in western China through deep acceleration of innovation.

The ' 2018 Dow Innovation Day ' focuses on collaborative innovation through value chain partners to jointly address local challenges, and captures the business opportunities presented by the Belt and Road Initiative.

During the half-day event, participants shared market insights in the form of keynote presentations and held two sub-forums entitled ' Green Innovation, enabling Southwest ' and ' collaborative innovation for Win-for-work development ' to further explore the promotion of innovation and sustainable business success in the south-west region through collaboration.

In addition, Innovation Day showcases Dow's innovative solutions in a wide range of industries and applications, including packaging, infrastructure, and consumer goods.

Dow Chengdu Innovation Day demonstrates remote technical support capability In his keynote address, Dr. Yau Wei, Dow's chief technology officer for Asia Pacific, said: ' New technologies and cross-border business models are triggering huge industry changes that require us to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions at higher quality and faster speeds. As the world's leading material science company, Dow believes that innovation has entered the ' new normal ' and that business and R & amp; d collaboration with customers and partners is one of the effective ways to accelerate the introduction of innovative results. Dow's series of success stories with value chain partners are a strong testament to the high efficiency of collaborative innovation.

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China is Dow's largest overseas market, and the Shanghai Dow Center is Dow's largest integrated R & amp; d Center outside the United States, with more than 100 laboratories and more than 600 scientists.

Dow Asia Pacific Customer Innovation Center organizes more than 40 brainstorming sessions each year with customers, partners, government agencies, and academic institutions to combine Dow's R & amp; D and business expertise with customer needs and insights to bring groundbreaking and innovative technologies to the local market.

On innovation Day, the Dow team demonstrated the remote technical support capabilities of the Customer Innovation Center in the Chengdu office, using digital technology to solve current challenges for customers. Lin Yulin, president of Dow Greater China, said: ' Thanks to a number of policy-driven areas, western China has continued to grow rapidly over the past five years. Dow's technical expertise is highly compatible with the needs of key areas of the market, namely, building a healthier life for consumers through durable infrastructure, sustainable packaging and consumer goods solutions.

' Dow announced in May that it was officially operational to invest in a new high-performance coating materials plant in Chengdu to meet the needs of the local infrastructure market.

Established in 2012, Dow Chengdu Office is Dow's business and customer service Center for the local market. 2018 Dow Chengdu Innovation Day: Advocating collaborative innovation to drive business growth