The Dow Chemical Co. recently announced it has opened a photovoltaic films application lab in Shanghai, reportedly to help customers in the Asia-Pacific region improve how they harness the power of the sun with ENLIGHT™ polyolefin films technologies and solutions.

“Asia-Pacific is an important and growing market for our ENLIGHT polyolefin encapsulant films and back encapsulant composite materials,” said Hawk Gao, Business Development manager, Asia-Pacific, Photovoltaics.

Dow has commercialized polyolefin-based encapsulant films and launched the back encapsulant composite films that are reportedly enabling photovoltaic panel manufacturers to make efficient, long-lasting, and innovative products for the global market.

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