The Dow Chemical Co. recently announced plans to invest in a new manufacturing facility for its Dow Coating Materials (DCM) business unit in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The planned facility will be located at the Jubail Industrial City, and will manufacture a range of coating materials for Saudi Arabia and worldwide export markets.

“With an unmatched specialty portfolio of advanced materials, we constantly aim at bringing customers differentiation and solving global challenges locally together,” said Jerome Peribere, executive vice president, The Dow Chemical Co. and president and CEO, Dow Advanced Materials Division. “By investing in a new coatings facility in Saudi Arabia, we are moving closer to our regional customers, and realizing our regional business objectives in a key growth market for Dow.”

For more information, visit www.dow.com/coating.