Dow Corning

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Organization business Q325037
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Dow Corning

Summary

Dow Corning is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,498 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dow Corning is in the country of United States[3].
  • Dow Corning's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Dow Corning's headquarters location is recorded as Midland[5].
  • Dow Corning's headquarters location is recorded as Wiesbaden[6].
  • Dow Corning's child organization or unit is recorded as Dow Corning (China)[7].
  • Dow Corning's child organization or unit is recorded as Dow Corning (Japan)[8].
  • Dow Corning's Commons category is recorded as Dow Corning[9].
  • Dow Corning's industry is recorded as industrial manufacturing[10].
  • 1943 marks the founding of Dow Corning[11].
  • Dow Corning's official website is recorded as http://www.dowcorning.com/[12].
  • Dow Corning's legal form is recorded as Q130264219[13].
  • Dow Corning's P14750 is recorded as 41C6-7C0F-8FB3-DB98-A318[14].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): EWIQBU4ZGZNBDL3LRS69[15]

  • Registered legal name: Dow Corning Corporation[16]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-MI[17]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[18]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): U7HC[19]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[20]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[21]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-11-16[22]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[23]

  • LEI next renewal: 2017-07-11[24]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[25]

  • Registration authority: RA999999[26]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[27]

Body

Founding

1943 marks the founding of Dow Corning[11].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Midland[5], a city in the United States[28], in United States[29] and Wiesbaden[6], an urban municipality in Germany[30], in Germany[31]. Subsidiaries include Dow Corning (China)[7] and it (Japan)[8], a business[32], in Japan[33], headquartered in Tokyo[34].

Industry

Dow Corning's industry is recorded as industrial manufacturing[10].

Why It Matters

Dow Corning ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,498 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [15] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [18] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [19] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'de', 'en', 'fr', 'ja', 'pt', 'ur']
    Gnd id → 4256997-7
    Sitelink count → 7
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 41C6-7C0F-8FB3-DB98-A318
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14750]]: 41C6-7C0F-8FB3-DB98-A318, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269256|batch #269256]]"
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