MIDLAND, MICH.

MIDLAND, MICH. (Aug. 15, 4:50 p.m. ET) -- Dow Chemical Co. has made some changes in the executive ranks of its plastics units. Glenn Wright has been named business vice president of Performance Packaging for Midland, Mich.-based Dow. The unit has annual sales of $8 billion and is part of Dow’s Performance Plastics division. The newly created Performance packaging unit represents a shift away from an asset-based approach to a market/value chain orientation, Dow officials said in an Aug. 15 news release. The unit’s focus is on flexible food packaging. Wright has more than 25 years of market experience,

Dow Chemical has successfully demonstrated the use of recycled plastic to generate energy for industrial operations, the company has announced. In a pilot test, Dow said it recovered 96 percent of available energy from 578 pounds of incinerated plastic at one of its waste treatment facilities in Midland, Mich. The energy recovered was equivalent to 11.1 million BTUs of natural gas and was used as fuel for Dow’s incinerator. The test used linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) scrap film generated in one of Dow’s extrusion laboratories. It is the same type of film commonly used for packaging food and consumer