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Dow Corning Develops Green Materials in China
March 30, 2006 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
MIDLAND, Mich. — Dow Corning's ongoing initiative to produce environmentally friendly, silicon-based materials for electronics manufacturers in China has enabled one Chinese company to meet looming environmental laws, such as the EU's RoHS, WEEE, and China's RoHS initiative.
With the initiative, Dow Corning collaborated with companies to develop, qualify, and implement compliant materials to meet increasing concerns of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in existing solvent-based materials, noted Keith Huckle, Ph.D., global product steward and risk manager, Dow Corning. These neutral-cure adhesives and sealants adhere to various metals and plastics with low volatility, curing to rubbery solids. As part of the program, Dow Corning collaborated with local dispensing, measurement, and packaging equipment suppliers in South China to integrate the material into their customers' manufacturing processes.
Dow Corning's Science & Technology team, working with the company's China Application Center in Shanghai, helped a power-module manufacturer eliminate the use of solvent-based adhesives by switching to silicon-based material solutions.
Dow Corning's global approach involves tracking applicable legislation development, educating raw materials suppliers about looming changes, and implementing product-line adjustments. Dow Corning's Product Stewardship Program, which monitors, prepares, and plans for regulatory changes that will affect its business, customers, and supply-chain partners, oversees the approach. "This approach is a win-win situation for Dow Corning, and all involved in the supply chain," said Huckle.