Kodak Xiao is Asia Pacific marketing director for Food and Specialty Packaging, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics
With more than ten years of packaging experience, Kodak brings to Dow a holistic and comprehensive knowledge of the industry. Having his career span across various countries including China, Singapore and the United States, and over several plastics-related businesses including adhesives, food and industrial packaging, the MBA graduate from Chinese University of Hong Kong has proven himself to be an expert on the packaging demands and trends in Asia Pacific.
Joy Xu is Asia Pacific Application Technology Leader for Food and Specialty Packaging, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics
Joy leads the applications developments in F&SP. From packaging to textile and hygiene markets, her passion to create has led the team to develop various innovative solutions, solving many key issues for customers. With more than ten years of accumulative experience in the polymer industry, Joy has consistently pursued excellence and growth, pushing boundaries with her technical expertise, raising the bar with each new development.
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About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company is driving innovations that extract value from material, polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2015, Dow had annual sales of nearly $49 billion and employed approximately 49,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 6,000 product families are manufactured at 179 sites in 35 countries across the globe. On June 1, 2016, Dow became the 100 percent owner of Dow Corning Corporation’s silicones business, a global company with sales of greater than $4.5 billion in 2015, 25 manufacturing sites in 9 countries and approximately 10,000 employees worldwide. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found atwww.dow.com
About Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics
The largest business unit in Dow, Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) delivers annual revenues of ~US$14 billion and is one of the largest materials suppliers to the global packaging industry. With 3,800 employees, 48 plants and 28 sites spread across 16 countries, the business focuses on high growth markets in food packaging, industrial packaging, personal hygiene, and transmission pipe. P&SP is a leading innovator and collaborates across multiple value chains on new and improved products and applications that meet or exceed customer expectations. Visit P&SP website at www.dow.com/en-us/packaging for more information.