Instruments & Innovation

Four views showing various stages of the extrusion of saran bubbles from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. The employee visible in the photographs is unidentified. During…

Two views of an unidentified employee observing the extrusion of a saran bubble from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film passed through a series of…

General view of a conveyor belt transporting cases of Saran Wrap at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

General view of sheets of saran film moving through a rolling machine at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

General view of a conveyor belt transporting rolls of Saran Wrap at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

Elevated view of a conveyor belt transporting boxes of Saran Wrap at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

General view of employee Louis Vallaincourt observing the extrusion of a saran bubble from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film passed through a series…

General view of packaged rolls of saran film at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II,…

General view of the interior of a section of the Dow Chemical Company Glycol plant located in Midland, Michigan.

General view of employees examining a Styron belt (also known as a ribbon) as it is extruded from a machine in the Styron manufacturing facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. Per…

General view of unidentified employees at work in the Styron manufacturing facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. A Styron belt (also known as a ribbon) is visible being extruded from…

General view of chemist Delores Horne analyzing the active constituent of a weed killer in the Dow Chemical Company's Analytical Laboratory located in Midland, Michigan. Per a notation accompanying the photograph, Ms.…

General view of the extrusion of saran bubbles from rolling machines at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, molten saran polymer was extruded from circular dies, then cooled and…

Close-up view of an unidentified employee at work in the saran film manufacturing facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and…

General view of Ray Kent checking a polymer operation at the Dow Chemical Company's Plastics Production Laboratory. Established in 1953 as an outgrowth of Dow's Physical Research Laboratory, the Plastics Production…

General view of an unidentified employee handling a saran bubble as it is extruded from a machine during the production of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, the film…

General view of the manufacturing of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film was trimmed and wound into so-called inventory rolls, such as those visible in the…

General view of chemist Roger Monroe working with a still in the Dow Chemical Company's Bush Aromatics Research Department.

General view of the assembly of rolls of Saran Wrap at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II, saran…

Elevated view of a conveyor belt transporting boxes of Saran Wrap at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company plant facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Several industrial-sized reaction vessels are visible in the photograph.

General view of an unidentified employee working with assorted test tubes in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly conducted research and testing related to the development…

General view of an unidentified employee conducting an experiment with assorted fruit specimens in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly conducted research and testing…

General view of two unidentified employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. The employees are seen stretching a length of film between two rollers. During…

Elevated view of employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film was trimmed and wound into so-called inventory rolls, such as…