Horgen, Switzerland - September 30, 2008

Effective October 1st, 2008, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH will increase prices for all its Synthetic Rubber grades by 250 Euros per metric tonne.

Dow offers a broad portfolio of styrene rubber (SBR) and polybutadiene rubber (BR) products, including cold polymerized emulsion styrene butadiene rubber (BUNA™ E-SBR), high-cis polybutadiene rubber (BR), low-cis polybutadiene rubber as well as solution styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR).

For more information about Synthetic Rubber visit: plastics.dow.com, or call the Dow Customer Information Group at +800-3-694-6367.

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Virginia Diploudis
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