News | June 9, 2005

Lubolid® Products Added To Molykote® Brand To Reflect Global Customer Needs

MIDLAND, Mich. - To better serve the needs of its global automotive customers, Dow Corning will now include Lubolid® products in its Molykote® portfolio of automotive lubricant products and services.

"Bringing the highly respected Lubolid brand into the Molykote family demonstrates our commitment to the automotive market to provide a complete line of products and services, comprehensive lubricant expertise, trusted performance, and smart lubrication solutions for our automotive customers," said Randall Rozin, Molykote global brand manager.

Ordering numbers and product formulations will remain the same. The packaging will assume the new look and feel for the Molykote brand, including an innovative packaging design that allows Molykote to offer more local languages for its products around the world-up to 20 in Europe, four in Asia and four in the Americas.

"The new identity for Molykote Lubolid products will result in improved ease-of-use by our customers and distributors," Rozin said.

For more information about Dow Corning's complete line of Molykote high-performance industrial lubricants, contact www.Molykote.com, or e-mail newlubolid@dowcorning.com.

About Molykote

For nearly 60 years, OEM designers, maintenance and materials engineers around the world have trusted Molykote brand solutions from Dow Corning for performance and expertise to solve or prevent virtually any plant lubrication problem. Products include the industry's most complete line of multi-purpose oils; synthetic and/or ultra-high-purity mineral-oil fluids for hydraulic systems, compressors, vacuum pumps, gear boxes and chains; specialty lubricant compounds, greases, pastes, anti-friction coatings, and dispersions. Services include oil analysis, lubrication management, and analytical training and consultation. Molykote solutions are available through a network of more than 3,000 channel partners. For more information, visit www.molykote.com, or e-mail industrial@dowcorning.com.