Dow sold his bromine for thirty-six cents per pound, while German companies sold their bromine for forty-nine cents per pound. The German companies threatened to flood Dow's markets with more cheaply priced bromine to drive the American out of business.
Dow refused to succumb to German pressure to increase the price of his bromine. Rather, Dow began to sell his bromine for a cheaper price in Europe, hurting the profits of the Germans. The Germans retaliated by selling bromine to American business owners for only fifteen cents per pound. Undaunted, Dow purchased large quantities of the Germans' fifteen cent bromine and then resold it in Europe at twenty-seven cents, undercutting the German price on this continent by twenty-two cents!
The Germans did not realize that Dow was behind the cheaper price in Europe. Even worse for the Germans, they repeatedly cut the price of bromine in the United States.
Before long, bromine was selling for After four years, Dow and the Germans finally negotiated an agreement. The Germans would no longer sell bromine in the United States, and Dow would not sell his bromine in Germany. The two sides would compete for customers in the rest of the world. In October , the U. Environmental Protection Agency EPA gave Dow 60 days until December 10, to present the agency with "a good faith offer demonstrating its willingness to conduct or finance a remedial investigation and feasibility study and design a remedy" for dioxin contamination of the Tittabawassee River, and perhaps the Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay areas of Michigan.
Firms hire CROs to conduct animal toxicity tests for agrochemicals, petrochemicals, household products, pharmaceutical drugs and toxins.
For links to copies of a facility's U. The Dow Chemical company controls a political action committee that has been active in every election cycle since As of January [29]. As of January [34]. Learn more at PetersonPyramid. ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations.
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The current archive includes mainly documents collected in the late s through the early s by The Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research CLEAR , an organization that tracked the rise of the so called "Wise Use" movement in the s during the Clinton presidency. Access the index to the Anti-Environmental Archives here. Overview Revenue of the global chemical industry Dow's revenue Dow's net sales by segment Global emissions of Dow Chemical Company by type Global energy intensity of Dow Chemical Company's manufacturing DowDuPont's revenue More interesting topics Related topics.
Chemical industry in the United States. Top chemical companies. Go to report. Contact Get in touch with us. Both products are basics "building blocks" for a variety of strategic materials. Dow scientists were asked by the Government to make synthetic phenol, basic to the manufacture of such disruptive explosives as picric acid and TNT. Their effort yielded 23,, pounds. Dow also made aspirin--as much as , pounds a month. It developed and produced acetic anhydride, an organic solvent for waterproofing and strengthening airplane fabrics.
It produced huge quantities of carbon tetrachloride, chlorbenzol, Epsom salts and other magnesium products, and of insecticides. Obviously by now, it is apparent that Herbert Dow knew the way to survive--expand research even more and modernize. And so from the laboratory emerged better indigo, salicylates, aromatics and better ways to make them. This time the company decided to make phenol with a new process, using chlorobenzene. Not only did the process work, it produced important byproducts which became the basis for fungicides and heat transfer agents.
Dow had many, many chemicals that went to war and helped to win it. The list runs from aniline to xanthates, flotation agents in the mining of critical copper, lead, and nickel ores. Magnesium, which had shown glimmerings of greatness in World War I, is a case in point. As early as , Herbert Dow had set his sights on making magnesium hydrate.
Twenty years were to pass before his first limited success at making magnesium metal. On a hot day of July in , a group of Dow scientists hovered anxiously over a box of welded boiler plate, lined with slabs of soapstone.
They were attempting to make metal from electrolysis of magnesium chloride, a product of the Midland brine. The men stayed up all night, unconcernedly sniffing chlorine and their loving care produced a one-pound cake of metallic magnesium. Magnesium went to war in aircraft wheels, engines, and frames, in a variety of ordnance equipment bazooka barrels, for instance in incendiary bombs, flares and tracer powder, and in a variety of alloys with aluminum.
In other ways, too the chemical industry was revolutionizing science. Uses of carbon tetrachloride ranged from making Freon for aerosol bombs to an industrial solvent, uses of caustic soda from processing vegetable oils to making soap and explosives.
Phenolic compounds became starting materials in making of agricultural chemicals, photographic chemicals, plastics, of germicides, fungicides and preservatives that lengthened the life of tents, camouflage paints, pontoons, hawsers, paper.
Saran monofilaments were woven into insect screening that defied rust and rot in the tropics.
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