Crowdsourcing Collaboration Celebrates “Outside The Box” Applications For The Dow Chemical Company’s UCON™ Oil Soluble Pags To Help Address Global Challenges

MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building on its foundational excellence of science-driven innovation, Dow turned to the power of the crowd to spearhead new application development and potential markets for UCON™ oil-soluble polyalkylene glycols (oil-soluble PAGs).

Partnering with InnoCentive, the first of its kind Oil-Sol Challenge received more than 60 solutions from 43 countries.

The Challenge called for industry leaders to collaborate, innovate and problem solve to validate new applications or markets where UCON™ oil-soluble PAGs could offer clear advantages to help solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Two winners—Joel Martin and Dmitriy Tipikin—clearly stepped up to the challenge, identifying potential applications for addressing eye disease globally and for providing better environmental and sustainable standards for oil/gas/mining operations. Each was awarded $15,000 for their winning ideas.

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