Allyn's Point

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Manufacturing Site

Site	Address	Phone
Allyn's Point	The Dow Chemical Company 1761 Rte 12 Gales Ferry, Connecticut 06335 USA	Tel. 1 860 464 7211 Fax 1 860 447 7363

The Allyn's Point site is located midway between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, just a few miles from Interstate 95. Allyn's Point, like much of the southeastern Connecticut area, provides a unique blend of old and new. Nestled on the east bank of the Thames River, the 300-acre plant site is part of a tract of land originally settled by Robert Allyn in 1656.

Just as the river dock was important to the Allyns when they established a trading post on the site in 1675, today it provides a deep-water port only eight miles from Long Island Sound. The 800-foot dock accommodates barges and ocean-going vessels bringing styrene,the primary raw material used at Allyn's Point from Dow's Texas Operations. The plant's ideal location is within overnight shipping distance of one third of the U.S. population and manufacturing firms.

Dow began manufacturing Styron* polystyrene at the Allyn's Point site in 1952. Styron* plastic is used to make food packaging, appliance parts, toys and medical wares.

In 1955, another plant was added to make Styrofoam* brand plastic foam, widely used as building insulation and as flotation for rafts and docks.

A styrene butadiene latex plant was added in 1962. Latex is a sticky, white liquid, used in paper and flooring industries. In 1986, a multimillion dollar modernization increased the plant's latex-producing capacity by nearly 70 percent.

In 1973, a plant was built at Allyn's Point to produce Magnum* ABS resin, a solvent resistant plastic used to make automobile parts, pipe, furniture and appliances. An additional Styron* plant was built in 1976.

The Allyn's Point site consists of two (2) plants: STYROFOAM* and SB Latex.