GLW Corning Inc

Custom-designed facility expands manufacturing and sales to serve the company's growing global customer base MIDLAND, Mich., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Corning Corp. today announced that it is expanding its Silicon Valley operations to better serve its global customer base in the semiconductor, LED, display, computer, communications and other emerging markets. Dow Corning's Silicon Valley facility manufactures fabricated thermal interface materials, along with fabricated gel pads and strips. Dow Corning has relocated this facility from its original Menlo Park, Calif. location across San Francisco Bay to a larger, customized, 32,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Newark, Calif. Increased demand for its products across the globe in existing and emerging markets, such as flat panel displays, power modules and automotive electronics applications, prompted the company's move to the larger facility. The new facility also consolidates Dow Corning's Silicon Valley operations, including its approximately 55-person staff, in a single location; previously it had occupied several satellite locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The interior of the new facility was built to the company's specifications, and will house manufacturing operations, an on-site manufacturing support laboratory, applications engineering, and administrative offices for marketing and technical sales. "We are set to deliver operational excellence that further positions Dow Corning's supply chains as a competitively differentiated capability," noted Fernando Haddad, ATVB global supply chain director. "Market drivers dictated that we invest and expand our thermal pad manufacturing capability," said Jeroen Bloemhard, global industry executive director for Electronics & Advanced Technologies for Dow Corning Corporation. "We remain dedicated to Silicon Valley since it is a major hub for electronics innovation. Having manufacturing, marketing and technical service in one location allows us to respond better and faster to emerging changes in market or customer requirements." The move to Newark is the latest example of Dow Corning's continued growth in the thermal management market. It originally acquired the Menlo Park facility in 2003 as part of its acquisition of the Raychem Power Materials Business Unit of Tyco Electronics. That move expanded Dow Corning's product offerings in fabricated materials, adding fabricated gel and thermal interface materials to its existing wet-dispensed materials capabilities. About Dow Corning Dow Corning Corporation (http://www.dowcorning.com/electronics) is a globally integrated provider of materials, application technology and services, and is focused on providing innovative technology for all segments of the electronics industry. Dow Corning has development and applications centers strategically located throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. The centers offer advanced resources for electronics materials and services, and are staffed with experienced professionals who can provide technical support to customers locally. Dow Corning Corporation is equally owned by The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) and Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW). More than half of Dow Corning Corporation's sales are outside the United States. DATASOURCE: Dow Corning Corporation CONTACT: Company Contact: Don Piering of Dow Corning, +1-989-496-8972, ; Agency Contact: Bruce Hokanson of Loomis Group, +1-360-574-4000, Web site: http://www.dowcorning.com/electronics

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