Dow AgroSciences

Biosciences institute aims for $300M endowment

May 6, 2013
J.K. Wall
The effort to launch the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute got $25 million from the Legislature, but the life sciences institutions backing the effort have set their funding sights much higher.
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Dow AgroSciences grows sales, earnings to new heights

April 25, 2013
Mason King, Bloomberg News
Record sales for seeds and new crop protection products helped boost revenue 14 percent at Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC in its new fiscal year.
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Dow AgroSciences wins bid to overturn pesticide guidelines

February 21, 2013
Bloomberg News
Indianapolis-based Dow Agrosciences LLC and two other pesticide makers won a bid to overturn U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service proposals to protect salmon when an appeals court found the agency’s decision “arbitrary and capricious.”
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Former state ag director joins Dow AgroSciences

January 21, 2013
Joseph Kelsay, who had served as director of Indiana's Department of Agriculture since 2009, is joining Dow AgroSciences' government affairs team as senior manager of biotechnology affairs.
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Profit falls at Dow AgroSciences even as sales rise

October 24, 2012
J.K. Wall
Strong demand from farmers boosted sales by 8 percent at Dow AgroSciences LLC in the third quarter, but continued investments in new technologies slashed profits by 16 percent.
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Dow Agro awarded $5.3M in patent-infringement case

October 2, 2012
The unsuccessful lawsuit filed by a subsidiary of Belgium-based Bayer Bioscience claimed that insect-resistant corn products from affiliates of Dow AgroSciences violated two of its patents.
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Dow AgroSciences prevails in patent-infringement case

September 28, 2012
The lawsuit, filed in December 2010 by Bayer CropScience SA, charged that Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences' herbicide-tolerance technology infringed one of its patents.
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Vegetable growers, Dow settle dispute over new herbicide

September 11, 2012
J.K. Wall
A coalition of vegetable growers and food producers led by Indiana-based Red Gold Inc. will ease off their opposition to a new herbicide developed by Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC.
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Next up for Indiana biotech: Feed the world

August 6, 2012
J.K. Wall
Even though the potential payoff for health care innovation is less certain these days, the business case for new ways to produce more food has never been stronger. That’s the analysis that lies behind BioCrossroads' new report an agricultural innovation.
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Dow Agro sales surge to record in second quarter

July 26, 2012
The Indianapolis-based division of Dow Chemical Co. posted record second quarter sales of $1.7 billion, up 12 percent from the year-ago period, due to a small increase in prices and the introduction of new products.
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Dow Agro sales surge on healthy ag market

April 26, 2012
J.K. Wall
Sales at Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences grew 14 percent in the first quarter, to $1.8 billion, helped by an early planting season in North America and a buoyant agricultural market.
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Dow Agro posts record fourth quarter profit

February 2, 2012
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
The Indianapolis-based unit of Dow Chemical Co. saw earnings grow to $142 million, a fourth-quarter record and double the $72 million reported for the 2010 period.
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Herron students' work to accent Dow headquartersRestricted Content

December 31, 2011
 IBJ Staff
The school said the work, involving seven students, at Dow AgroSciences represents its largest cross-discipline installation to-date.
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Ex-Dow Agro scientist receives seven years for economic espionage

December 21, 2011
Kexue Huang was sentenced after pleading guilty in October to sending Dow AgroSciences trade secrets to China and Germany.
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Ex-Dow Agro scientist set to be sentenced in espionage case

December 21, 2011
Scott Olson
Federal prosecutors are recommending that Kexue Huang be sentenced to 87 months in prison for sending trade secrets worth millions to China and Germany.
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Dow Agro improves quarterly revenue, profit

October 27, 2011
 IBJ Staff and Bloomberg News
Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences on Thursday reported record third-quarter sales of $1.2 billion, up 27 percent from the same period a year ago.
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Ex-Dow Agro scientist pleads guilty in espionage case

October 18, 2011
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Kexue Huang faces up to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday morning to sending trade secrets worth millions to China and Germany.
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Ex-Dow Agro scientist makes plea in trade-secret case

September 15, 2011
Associated Press
A former Indiana scientist has agreed to plead guilty to charges of illegally sending trade secrets worth $300 million to China and Germany.
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Dow AgroSciences reports record sales, higher earnings

July 27, 2011
Second-quarter revenue for the Indianapolis-based company increased 18 percent, to $1.5 billion. The company attributed the gain to higher prices and stronger demand for its products.
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Q&A

June 13, 2011
J.K. Wall
Vi Shukla is a scientific leader at Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC, focused on its Exzact Precision Technology tools for genetic engineering of plants and crops. Dow Agro used the technology in its own crop seed products, and has also been licensing for use in tomatos and trees.
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Dow AgroSciences reports record revenue

April 28, 2011
 IBJ Staff
Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences on Thursday reported sales of $1.6 billion in its first quarter, up 17 percent from the same period last year due to higher volume and increased prices.
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Dow Agro thinks it has a winner

March 16, 2011
J.K. Wall
The Indianapolis-based company released more details this month about its Enlist Weed Control System, which would genetically modify corn, soybeans and cotton to be resistant to one of the most common weedkillers.
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Dow Chemical moves toward engineered corn patent

March 1, 2011
Associated Press
Dow Chemical Co.'s agricultural division said it has taken the next step toward gaining international patent rights for its new strain of genetically engineered corn that it says will help farmers battle a new strain of "super-weeds."
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Dow Agro's quarterly sales, profit climb

February 3, 2011
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences on Thursday reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $1.3 billion, up 19 percent from the prior-year period.
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Dow AgroSciences moves into new research facility

November 20, 2010
 IBJ Staff
The division of Dow Chemical has a 15-year lease with Indianapolis-based developer Browning Investments on the two-story building near West 96th Street.
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