Competition record
Dow
Deep profile · 1 linked library matter
Dow is a materials company whose plastics and chemicals go into packaging, buildings, and factories. This library id is the 2017 combination with DuPont, which the EU cleared only with remedies.
Overview
Dow makes plastics, coatings, and other materials used in packaging, infrastructure, and manufacturing. Before the combination it was one of the largest chemical companies in the United States, with a catalog that overlaps what farmers and factories buy from rivals.
In 2017 Dow and DuPont combined. The European Commission cleared the merger on conditions, because the overlap in crop protection and in some petrochemical products would otherwise have removed a competitor. The library status is remedy. The combined group did not stay in one piece.
The company later separated into three: Dow for materials, DuPont for specialty products, and Corteva for agriculture. This profile describes that 2017 clearance and the later split. It does not open a new case. FMC is named in the library's remedy file in connection with crop-protection assets.
Competition footprint
Crop-protection overlaps were a reason the clearance was conditional.
Materials customers saw the supplier map change again when the group split.
The recorded outcome is a remedy, meaning conditions on the deal, not a prohibition and not a cartel fine.
Consumer & business angle
Farmers buy seeds and sprays from the agricultural business that later became Corteva.
Packaging and industrial buyers are the customers of the materials company that kept the Dow name.
What to watch
- Whether the divested crop-protection assets competed after the clearance, which is the test of a remedy.
- The separate DuPont and FMC profiles, which read the same library file from the other side.
Markets
materials science · plastics · specialty chemicals · crop protection · petrochemicals · specialty materials
Also known as: dow chemical, dow inc