Dow Process Company
American company
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The Dow Process Company was an American entity founded in 1895 by Herbert H. Dow. It was established to electrolyze brine for chlorine production, a process that also yielded caustic soda and sodium hypochlorite. This company was a precursor to the larger Dow Chemical Company, which Herbert H. Dow founded in 1897 by absorbing both the Midland Chemical Company and the Dow Process Company. The Dow Process Company's innovations in brine electrolysis were significant for the early American chemical industry.12
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