Award Sub-Category: Transparent Coatings

Dow’s patented solventless SYL-OFFTM SL 184 Coating, a technological advancement that solved the long-standing misting issue, enabled extreme speed production of Pressure Sensitive Adhesive labels with excellent coating performance. This innovative breakthrough improved productivity and opened a new horizon in the $93.2 billion/year PSA market.

AGILITY™ 1500 Performance LDPE allows the widest, thinnest, most consistent clear films with gains of >40% in processability (speed, reliability) and >20% in properties (optics, strength, shrink) for stellar performance. Downgauging, reduced waste, recyclable films, and incorporation of recycled PE enabled by AGILITY™ 1500 advances sustainability.

nCoating is a transparent cover-layer, a fusion of glass-like hardness and plastic-like flexibility, for foldable screen with super hard (9H) surface, pen drop resistance (up to 15cm) and robust bending durability (up to 500k cycles). nCoating endows the anti-scratch performance to plastics and folding durability, pen drop resistance to glass.