Liveris Named Co-Chair of U.S. President Obama's Newly Formed Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

The Dow Chemical Company DOW today announced that Andrew N. Liveris, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has been appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama as Co-chair of the newly formed Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. Liveris will be joined by Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in heading the Partnership. The Partnership includes other major U.S. manufacturers, several top U.S. engineering universities, and key government technology leaders. Key goals of the Partnership will be to build a roadmap for advanced manufacturing technologies, accelerating ideas from the drawing board to production and competitive advantage in the marketplace, and to ensure a vital and globally competitive manufacturing sector. "I am honored to have been selected to Co-chair the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership,” said Liveris at the launch ceremony at Carnegie Mellon University. “Through success in manufacturing, the U.S. can generate meaningful long-term employment in key industries and the support positions that accompany them – every new manufacturing job on average creates five additional jobs. By recovering U.S. manufacturing leadership, the U.S. can also maintain and grow its role as the world's innovation engine. Success at R&D, and in turn, the production of new ideas as products, go hand-in-hand – they can't be separated. A vibrant manufacturing sector is essential to our competitiveness in cutting-edge technology.”