Dow Chemical Company

The Dow Chemical Company is one of the leading chemical company in the world. To adapt the new market environment and to bring the company to new heights, the Dow Chemical Company launched the “Dow of tomorrow” strategy in 2006. The strategy includes two parts – First part is pursuing an asset-light approach to its low-margin, but cash-rich, commodity businesses, this part was achieved by a joint venture with Petrochemical Industries Company; the second part is building high-growth and high-value-added performance businesses which plan to be achieved by purchases of Rohm and Haas. In the acquisition of the Rohm and Haas. Both companies were facing some risk. In the Dow’s side, because of the debts financing, ticking fee payment for delay of…

During the summer of 2013, I was employed by the Dow Chemical Company as a Maintenance and Reliability Engineer. I was located in Deer Park, Texas at their acrylates facility. My time there was only for the summer, which meant I was limited to thirteen weeks to complete my projects. The main project that I worked on while employed there was to install a filtration system for the circulator pumps. There are over sixty pumps throughout the site and they were all failing at different times due to…

constructed around or near densely populated places. It is such an alarming habit that many countries did not or does not learn from the past events, hence neglecting and allowing such plants to be established in reasonable places or miles away from the people. Based on the current system of constructing chemical as well as poisonous plants, it is most likely that the similar incidents would be caused by the human activities, such as underground digging of minerals, fight for settlement places,…

In 1984 on the night of the second of December the Bhopal plant emitted 42 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas exposing to more than 500,000 people and killing around 5,000 people. The clean-up of this disaster was insufficient and people are still being affected by the leakage. Methyl isocyanate gas also known as MIC is a clear liquid used to make pesticides, when exposed to the gas it brings the same effects as tear gas. Some of the effects that people went through were swelling and burning of…

Australia’s worst mine disasters With a mining industry as large as Australia's it should come as no surprise that we have a vast history of accidents, varying in size. The worst mining disaster in the history of Australia occurred in 1902 at Mount Kembla mine and claimed the lives of 96 miners. The incident was the result of an explosion. 81 miners were killed in the 1887 gas explosion in the Bulli Mine. The loss of life left 150 children fatherless and around 50 women were suddenly…

Bhopal India 1984 On the night of the 2nd of December 1984 tragedy struck in Bhopal, India killing an estimated 20,000 people. It began with a pesticide plant by Union Carbide. Union Carbide had diversified into India via Union Carbide India Limited. They had suspected that India was an enormous market that was yet to be tapped into and discovered. At the time UCC was one of the first companies to invest into India (Union Carbide Corporations). The plan was to sell their pesticide “Sevin” to…

HISTORY: When a thick fog engulfed London from December 5 to December 9, 1952, it mixed with black smoke emitted from homes and factories to create deadly smog. This smog killed approximately 12,000 people and shocked the world into starting the environmental movement. Overview of the Great Smog of 1952: When a severe cold spell hit London in early December 1952, Londoners did what they usually did in such a situation; they burned more coal to heat up their homes. Then on December 5, 1952, a…

The government already has the power to tax companies through the constitutional interstate commerce clause, so a push to tax these industries harder to clean the environment might not require such wholesale changes. Taxing industries creates incentives to find cleaner energies, like the cap-and-trade system. Instead, more focus should be placed on the energies that do not have so many negative externalities. States like Florida that outlaw solar energy leasing should change their policies in…

The toxic gas went out the plant to the atmosphere where it contaminated the air and forming the toxic gas cloud. This whole tragedy saga ended up in court of law because the government wanted the answers of what exactly happened during that night but even to this date it is not clear on who to blame. The government of India just wanted justice to be done on the poor and terrified Bhopal residents. The company lost its reputation. At least the judgement was in plaintiff’s favour, in this case…

the fact that the greater number didn’t suffer as bad as the lower number which is somewhat promoting the greatest good for the greater number of people. I believe that deontology ethics would react to this disaster by not caring about the consequences, but it also considers certain actions right, and certain actions wrong no matter what. In this situation, people were killed which is an action that deontology ethics would consider wrong. According to the text, “In 1991 the government of India…