Tag: BASF

BASF SE has launched a research initiative called ”North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials” through which it is collaborating with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst.

Fluor Corporation announced that it has secured a contract for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for BASF’s toluene diisocyanate (TDI) Complex project at BASF’s site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

BASF is opening a state-of-the-art production site for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This is the largest facility of this kind worldwide and will become fully operational in December.

BASF has announced plans to build two new ready-to-mold feedstock facilities for Catamold®, in the Asia Pacific region.

BASF has completed the acquisition of Becker Underwood from Norwest Equity Partners, a U.S.-based private equity investment company, for a purchase price of US$1.02 billion.

BASF is building a mobile emissions catalysts production facility in Środa Śląska, a Special Economic Zone near Wrocław, Poland. The new 40,000 square meter facility will be BASF’s largest in plant in Europe.

BASF and Purac have announced that they are establishing a joint venture for the production and sale of biobased succinic acid.

BASF is constructing a new MDI complex in Chongqing, China. And Colfax Fluid Handling is scheduled to deliver Allweiler screw pumps for the project in early 2013.

BASF has announced that it will build a single-train 300,000 metric tons per year production plant for TDI (toluene diisocyanate) and expand additional plants for its precursors at its site in Ludwigshafen.

BASF will build a SAP plant in Camacari, Brazil with an annual capacity of 60,000mt. Production is expected to begin in late 2014. In China, BASF-YPC Company Limited, a 50-50 joint venture between BASF and Sinopec, intends to begin construction of a 60,000mt SAP plant at its Verbund site in Nanjing in mid 2012.