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Date, 2010

2. ANGUS Chemical Company – A Strong History
Reliable, steady growth and innovation for more than 70 years
1934 First nitroparaffin patent granted
1936 Commercial Solvents Corporation
1975 IMC Chemical Group
1982 ANGUS Chemical Company (Alberta Natural Gas United States)
1999 ANGUS purchased by The Dow Chemical Company
2009 Rohm and Haas purchased by The Dow Chemical Company, adding PRIMENE™ amines to the ANGUS portfolio

3. ANGUS Today
World’s only company dedicated to nitroalkanes and their derivatives
Unique specialty products for diverse markets
Subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company
Headquartered in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA
Access to resources of a $45 billion dollar chemical company

4. ANGUS Today Manufacturing facilities in Sterlington, Louisiana, USA
Ibbenbüren, Germany
Buffers and Biochemicals in Niagara Falls, New York, USA
ANGUS is a premier solution provider growing with you in key geographies
State-of-the-art laboratories, local sales and technical experts at Customer Application Centers around the world

5. Power and Diversity of ANGUS Nitroalkane and Derivative Chemistry
Nitroalkane chemistry
Complex molecules
Reduces reaction steps
Optimizes synthesis costs
Performs useful transformations
ANGUS can produce literally thousands of nitroalkane derivatives to create potential solutions for customers.
Nitroalkanes and derivatives are used as precursors to the creation of highly-substituted alkanes and alkenes, amines, carboxylic acids, aldehydes, ketones, complex heterocyclic structures and more.

6. Power and Diversity of ANGUS Nitroalkane and Derivative Chemistry
ANGUS produces four basic nitroalkanes and derivatives
Nitromethane
Nitroethane
1-nitropropane
2-nitropropane
Derivatives (nitro alcohols, amino alcohols, oxazolines, oxazolidines and hydroxylamines)
General Benefits Achieved
Neutralization (acidic ingredients, impurities)
Alkaline pH development
pH buffering
Dispersancy
Moisture scavenging
Formaldehyde scavenging
Wetting and moisture displacement
Emulsification (oil/water; water/oil)
Corrosion inhibition

7. Leather
ZOLDINE™ Synthetic Tanning and Cross-linking Agents improve properties of finished leather
Performance-enhancing
Oxazolidine-based, fast-reacting
Cross-linking agents for collagen and casein
Vegetable tanning materials (condensed tannins)

8. Leather ZOLDINE™ Synthetic Tanning and Cross-linking Agents
Improve processing and finished products when used in combination with chromium sulfate, aluminum sulfate, vegetable extracts and phenolic syntans
Versatile use in production processes:
Pre-tanning
Tanning
Re-tanning
Excellent for chrome and chrome-free (metal and non-metal) wet white tannages

9. Life Science Utilities
ANGUS products used in a wide variety of pharmaceutical, ophthalmic and other life science applications
ANGUS helps to reduce raw material and supply chain costs by providing:
Biological buffers
Biochemicals
Diverse sourcing capabilities

10. Life Science Utilities
ANGUS is the inventor and leading manufacturer of TRIS AMINO™ Tromethamine products
Only back-integrated manufacturer compliant with cGMP
Serves as a synthesis or analytical buffer, neutralizer, solubilizer and stabilizer

11. Metalworking
ANGUS produces unique problem-solving specialty additives that allow for the formulation of superior fluids:
CORRGUARD™ Amino Alcohols
ALKATERGE™ Surface Active Agents (oxazoline-based
chemistries work as emulsion stabilizers and corrosion inhibitors)
AEPD™ 85 (low-VOC corrosion inhibitor)
DMAMP-80™ (vapor-phase corrosion inhibitor)
PRIMENE™ amines (control reactivity)
Our portfolio helps achieve desirable properties such as systems in control, longer-life fluids, corrosion resistance and reduced biocide dosing.

12. Metalworking ANGUS is an innovator for formulated metalworking fluids
CORRGUARD™ portfolio
Increase life of formulated fluids
Work synergistically with biocides
Improve corrosion resistance.
Provide neutralizing and emulsification properties
Patent-pending CORRGUARD EXT
Superior synergy with biocides for longer fluid life; biocide use level reduction
Improves corrosion control of ferrous metals
Increases pH stability
Favorable EH&S profile

13. Paint and Coatings
ANGUS helps formulators get the most out of their formulations.
We are the leader in multifunctional amine technology to the Paint and Coatings market with a range of specialty additives.
AMP™ is the industry standard for multifunctional amine technology
Effective pH control
Efficient pigment dispersion, resulting in lower dispersant levels
Provides significant benefits to overall performance of the coating

14. Paint and Coatings
“Lose the VOCs…Lose the Odor…Keep the Performance” with the new AEPD™ VOX 1000 Multifunctional Amine
Formulate no (<5g/L) VOC
No odor paints
Same or better performance characteristics as with AMP
Provides all-around performance

15. Paint and Coatings
Additional specialty additives from ANGUS for paints and coatings
DMAMP-80™, a vapor-phase corrosion inhibitor
ALKATERGE™ Surface Active Agents, oxazoline based chemistries work as emulsion stabilizers and corrosion inhibitor
ZOLDINE™ MS-PLUS Moisture Scavenger, fast-reacting, low-viscosity oxazolidine-based water scavenger

16. Personal Care
More than 30 years experience in amino alcohol development
ULTRA PC amino alcohols set the quality benchmark as preferred neutralizing agents, providing multiple functionalities.
ANGUS experts can assist with formulation support.
ANGUS manufactures the highest purity amino alcohols for personal care and cosmetic products
AMP-ULTRA™ PC Neutralizing Amine
AMPD™ ULTRA PC Neutralizing Amine
TRIS AMINO™ ULTRA PC Tromethamine

17. Personal Care ULTRA PC products meet global compliance needs
European Cosmetics Directive 76/768/EEC and its latest amendments
The Ministry of Health (MOH) of the People’s Republic of China Hygienic Standards for Cosmetics (2007 version)
The 2008 ASEAN Cosmetics Directive

18. Synthetic Rubber
CHAINGUARD™ I-15 Polymerization Shortstop can help benefit the synthetic rubber manufacturing process.
Maintains excellent Mooney viscosity stability
Helps prevent popcorn polymer fouling of equipment
Minimal carry over into the recycled monomer, which helps to avoid problems initiating polymerization of recycled monomers
Contains no secondary amine

19. Synthetic Rubber
Efficient, multi-purpose free-radical scavenger and shortstop
Rubber complaint with the German regulation TRGS 552 (which regulates certain volatile N-nitrosamines)

20. Fuels and Lubricants
Reaction products formed from PRIMENE™ amines provide
Solubility in hydrocarbons
Outstanding thermal and oxidative stability
Controlled reactivity
Ideally suited as building blocks for a wide variety of specialty additives
Resulting additives offer un-matched performance – from extreme pressure/anti-wear protection in gear oils to UV stabilization of polyolefin films
Used as components in processing aids used in a variety of applications
Anti-foulants
Corrosion inhibitors
Solvent exchange liquors
Diesel fuel stabilizers

21. Fuels and Lubricants AUTOMATE™ concentrated, liquid solvent dyes
Used to color to fuels, automotive and industrial lubricants, candles, and writing inks
Fluorescent dye used in system fluids to detect leaks in engines, hydraulic systems
MORTRACE™ and SPECTRACE™ marking technologies
Quick, accurate petroleum product integrity testing for convenient and effective field surveillance
Supporting governments and major fuel marketers for more than 30 years to develop proprietary, technologically advanced solutions relative to fuel adulteration or lubricant counterfeiting

22. Basic Nitroalkanes Products
Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Intermediates
Leading supplier of Nitromethane NM™ used to produce a variety of fumigants for agricultural applications, including Chloropicrin
Top supply leader of critical pharmaceutical intermediates
Used in a variety of pharmaceutical applications, including anti-tuberculosis drugs and X-ray contrast media agents
Nitromethane NM and Nitroethane NE™ are used in the basic synthesis of raw materials; Serve as high-quality starting materials for the preparation of pharmaceutical intermediates
AB™ Amino Alcohol and TRIS AMINO™ Tromethamine

23. Basic Nitroalkanes Products
Solvents and Thinners
FLEXITANE™ CA 6000 Specialty Coatings Additive and NIKANE™ Multifunctional Solvent products
Range of chemicals providing formulating performance attributes in specialty applications
Reduce the amount of higher-cost active solvents required
Enhancing product performance

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