Horgen, Switzerland - March 27, 2008

Effective April 1st, 2008 or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH will increase prices for all its Synthetic Rubber grades in Europe by 150 Euro per metric ton.

Dow offers a broad portfolio of styrene rubber (SBR) and polybutadiene rubber (BR) products, including cold polymerized emulsion styrene butadiene rubber (BUNA™ E-SBR), high-cis polybutadiene rubber (BR), low-cis polybutadiene rubber as well as solution styrene butadiene
rubber (S-SBR).

For more information about Synthetic Rubber visit: www.dowsyntheticrubber.com, or call the Dow Customer Information Group at +800-3-694-6367.

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