About Us

Dow connects chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainablity to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as clean water, renewable energy, and agricultural productivity. Dow's diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as in electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture. In 2010, Dow had annual sales of $53.7 billion and employed approximately 50,000 people worldwide. The Company’s more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 188 sites in 35 countries across the globe.

The Newark facility serves the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) Technologies business of the The Dow Chemical Company.

Electronic Materials develops and manufactures products used for the fabrication of almost every type of electronic chip made today.  CMP is the process used to create the flawless surfaces required to make faster and more powerful integrated circuits and electronic substrates semiconductors.  Our products include polishing pads, pad conditioners, slurries, reactive chemical solutions, carrier films and template assemblies.

We operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week with approximately 600 employees in 15 buildings of the Diamond State Industrial Park. 

In addition to our manufacturing facility, we have state-of-the-art research facilities, applications labs, clean rooms, finished product warehousing, and a small scale pilot line.