MIDLAND, Mich.—When Dow Corning Corp. launched its Xiameter-brand, web-enabled business model in 2002, virtually none of the silicone material supplier's sales were conducted online. Nine years later, ...

Excerpted from the book, From Strategy to Execution: Turning Accelerated Global Change into Opportunity (Springer, 2008). In today's environment, there is decreasing patience for slow-ramping ...

Call it the Wal-Mart of the chemical industry. Dow Corning Corp. has unveiled Xiameter, a no-frills, completely automated Web-based approach to buying more than 350 Dow products, including a wide ...

Even at a time when few people are seen during the workday without some sort of communications device clutched in their hand, attached to their ear or strapped to their belt, there are still a few ...

MIDLAND — "Silicones simplified." It's the simple motto behind Bay County based Dow Corning Corp.'s Web-based sales system called Xiameter. And it's helping Dow Corning's bottom line, one year after ...

MIDLAND, Mich.—Xiameter brand is launching a series of standard high-consistency rubber compounds for customers in North America and Europe. Xiameter aims to provide HCR compounds for high-voltage ...

As part of a plan to shift its technology resources toward developing new specialty silicone products, Dow Corning is doubling the number of standard silicones—rubber bases, dimethyl fluids, emulsions ...

To help rubber product fabricators shorten overall processing cycles and optimize manufacturing performance, the XIAMETER® brand of Dow Corning has introduced XIAMETER® RBL-9200 Liquid Silicone Rubber ...

You always hear that relationships are key to doing business in Asia. So when Shelley Bausch did a focus group with customers from Korea, Japan, China, Singapore and India, she fully expected to hear ...

Donald Sheets recently addressed the 2018 Supply Chain Logistics Management Executive Seminar at the Henry Center for Executive Development. Sheets, retired vice chairman, Dow Corning Corp., and ...

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