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Arnold A. Allemang is a member of the Board of Directors for The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan.
Allemang joined Dow in 1965 in Freeport, Texas. After five years in the Solvents Development Lab, he transferred to Stade, Germany. In 1972, he returned to the United States for various technical and managerial assignments. Allemang was named unit manager for Freeport's Chlorinated Ethanes in 1981, and two years later assumed the same role for Light Hydrocarbons and Acetylene.
He transferred to Terneuzen, The Netherlands, in 1984 to become production manager for Light Hydrocarbons I, and in 1986 became responsible for process control and engineering functions. In 1988, he returned to Freeport to manage the site's hydrocarbons production, and moved to Midland in 1989 as director of Technology Centers. Allemang was named Manufacturing general manager for Dow Benelux in 1992, and in early 1993 was named regional vice president, Manufacturing and Administration, Dow Benelux. Allemang was named vice president, Manufacturing Operations Dow Europe in late 1993. In August 1995, he was named vice president, Operations, which included global manufacturing and engineering activities. He then became executive vice president of the Company in 2000, and was named senior advisor in 2004.
Allemang was elected to the Dow Board of Directors in July 1996. In March 2008, he retired as a Dow employee and will remain on the Board as a non-employee Director.
Allemang is on the Board of Directors for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering; Michigan Molecular institute; MITCH+; MidMichigan Innovation Center; and Michigan Baseball Foundation, which is owner of the Great Lakes Loons. He is on the Board of Fellows for Saginaw Valley State University and the Executive Board of the Lake Huron Area Council, Boy Scouts of America.
He is a member of the Advisory Board for Kansas State University, College of Engineering; the President's Circle of Sam Houston State University; and the American Chemical Society; and RPM Ventures. Allemang serves on the Board of Trustees of the Manufacturing Institute.
He previously served on the Board of Directors for Dow Corning Corporation and the National Association of Manufacturers.
Allemang received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. | 