The collaboration will combine Dow’s expertise in polymer chemistry with Lehigh’s expertise in sustainable rubber compound development and testing, to modify the rubber particles.
Lehigh’s manufacturing process creates micron-scale, high quality, sustainable powders from tire and other post-industrial rubber material.
The sustainable powders are compatible with customers’ existing formulations for easy integration of new or existing products.
Dow Construction Chemicals general manager Colin Gouveia said the company’s 2015 sustainability goals include a focus on technologies that are advantaged by sustainable chemistry and this project is anchored in that same commitment.
Dow is a manufacturer of technology-based products and solutions in specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics.
Lehigh a green materials maker that turns end-of-life tire materials and other post-industrial rubber into sustainable powders.
