Every Bit Helps in Protecting the Ozone

Protecting the earth's ozone layer has been a global concern for several decades, and every action that helps protect this essential layer of the atmosphere helps the cause. As a company committed to making the world a better place, Dow AgroSciences was pleased that its efforts to help were honored with the United Nations' Montreal Protocol Innovators Award for Stratospheric Ozone Protection Efforts. This award was giving at a meeting in late 2007 which commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement designed to protect the earth's ozone layer.

The award honors the company's innovation, investment and commitment to protect the environment through its efforts to develop alternatives to methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting substance being phased out under the Protocol.

Dow AgroSciences was also named a winner of the United States' Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "Best of the Best" Ozone Protection Award which honors an elite group of companies, organizations and individuals who have demonstrated long-term excellence in efforts to protect the stratospheric ozone layer.

Both awards honor the company's long-standing commitment to providing critical alternatives to methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting substance used for pre-plant, post-harvest and structural fumigation uses. Dow AgroSciences products containing the active ingredients 1,3-dichloropropene and sulfuryl fluoride have been widely adopted on a global scale to coincide with the scheduled phase-out of methyl bromide.

"I am delighted that Indianapolis, Indiana-based Dow AgroSciences has been recognized for their continued leadership in developing technical and economically feasible alternatives to methyl bromide in accordance with this important international treaty," stated Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN).

"This public acknowledgment illustrates how Dow is delivering on its strategy of utilizing technology to address critical issues facing society while creating growth opportunities for the Company," says Jerome Peribere, Dow AgroSciences president and chief executive officer. "We are honored by these awards which commend our company's long history of being able to constantly introduce important soil, post-harvest and commodity fumigation products that can help growers around the globe have viable, available and cost-effective pest control options."

Every bit helps.