密歇根州米德兰市，2020年8月26日，3BL媒体 / - 为任何重大体育赛事（尤其是奥运会）创造独特的外观和感觉，通常要求标牌和横幅，以自定义体验并为运动员和运动员建立活动氛围粉丝们。The Olympic Movement’s Official Chemistry Company Dow (NYSE: DOW) is working with Japanese company Toppan Printing to give such fabric – typically made with a few layers of different plastics and other materials that can be difficult to recycle – a second life, long after the closing ceremony.

Toppan Printing从DOW中选择了DOVIFY™弹性体技术，以创建一种新的聚烯烃（PO）基于临时横幅的织物。所有塑料零件 - 膜，网眼，孔眼，纱线等 - 仅由聚烯烃组成，新织物还包含散热良好的无机材料作为填充物。由于仅使用一种类型的塑料来生产织物，因此可回收性可以提高，尤其是与通常用于横幅的传统篷布相比。

Once the events have concluded, Dow and Toppan intend to collect banners and signage that are made with its polyolefin-based materials and upcycle them into different products. Collected banners or signage will be re-palletized as a renewable resin, blended with timber from wood waste to produce wood-plastic composite materials for benches, floors and more.

"This initiative is a great example of combining Dow’s materials science expertise with our customers’ market insights to create an outcome that is great for the environment. Together, we can help the Olympic Games be even more sustainable,” said Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi, global sustainability & technology director, Dow Olympic & Sports Solutions. “Working hand-in-hand with Toppan Printing, we developed this polyolefin-based fabric especially for Tokyo 2020 to address the growing need to give plastic a second life.”

Toppan Printing的产品将通过出色的光学材料来增强织物，该织物可产生显示表面，可提供出色的清晰度和“闪光”，以吸引与会者的注意力。

“This project with Dow has enabled us to push beyond the traditional use and end-of-life of our products,” said Seiji Furuya, technical strategy and development manager in Toppan’s Information & Communication Division. “Recycling these Tokyo 2020 banners will showcase how collaborations such as ours can help society shift away from single-use plastics and reduce the amount of materials destined for incineration or landfills, to create something entirely new.”

Dow also recently committed to additional塑料回收targets, including enabling 1 million metric tons of plastic to be collected, reused or recycled through its direct actions and partnerships.

For more information about Dow solutions at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, visithttps://corporate.dow.com/en-us/about/partnhirs/sports/sponsorships/olympics/tokyo.html.

About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The Company’s ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company. Dow’s portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure and consumer care. Dow operates 109 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 36,500 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2019. Dow is a Worldwide Partner and Official Chemistry Company of the Olympic Movement and the Official Carbon Partner of the International Olympic Committee. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visitwww.dow.comor follow@Downewsroomon Twitter.

About Toppan
Toppan是印刷，通信，安全，包装，装饰材料和电子产品领域集成解决方案的全球领先提供商。Toppan的全球团队为每个业务和行业领域的客户提供服务，拥有50,​​000多名员工，提供了通过行业领先的专业知识和技术来实现最佳解决方案，以应对企业和社会在当今快速变化的市场中面临的各种挑战。

For more information, visit https://www.toppan.com/en/ or follow Toppan on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/toppan-printing/.

For further information, please contact:

Linda Lim
+65.9626.7662
llim2@dow.com

贝丝·克里斯蒂·史密斯（Beth Crisafi Smith）
+1 212.697.2600
bcrisafi@gscommunications.com