Hear It from the Experts
Local technology businesses discuss their success in Midland
No matter the size of your chemical or technology business, Midland has a place for you. We're the birthplace and global headquarters of The Dow Chemical Company and Dow Corning Corporation and world leaders in the basic and specialty chemicals and silicones industries. We even have dozens of small manufacturing businesses in the chemicals, plastics, silicones and advanced materials fields who are excited to share how locating in Midland has grown their businesses in a way other communities couldn't. Sample and download some of their stories here, or contact us for further information. We'd love to discuss how your business can be a Midland success story too.
AEGIS Environments
When two Dow Corning employees spun out proprietary antimicrobial technology, they had no idea where they'd end up - using their technology for everything from creating antimicrobial socks to vanquishing a black mold infestation at a million-square-foot hospital in Malaysia. Midland's deep knowledge of the chemical industry and what chemical business needs to function, as well as a unique manufacturing and distribution relationship with Dow Corning's worldwide facilities, helped make it happen.
Cabot Corporation
Cabot, a manufacturer of fumed silica products, gets its raw material from Dow Corning Corporation. Previously they shipped it to their Illinois plant by rail; now, Cabot's Midland plant pumps its feedstocks directly over the fenceline from Dow Corning's Midland Site. After ten years in Midland, Cabot is using the Midland plant's fenceline operation as a model for all their future global facilities.
The Savant Group
The Savant Group, four separate but interconnected companies serving the automotive and lubricants industries, has no reason on paper to have started in Midland or to stay here. What changes the game are all the factors that aren't apparent at first glance: the expertise of our workforce, the deep industry knowledge in our community, and the pro-business attitude of our municipal government. It's a combination that CEO Ted Selby claims makes Midland a "diamond on the polishing wheel."