BASF has inaugurated its new production plant for mobile emissions catalysts in Sroda Slaska, a Special Economic Zone near Wroclaw, Poland.

The facility, the German group's largest emissions catalysts plant in Europe, was built at a total cost of €150 million.

Once all ten planned light duty and heavy duty catalysts production lines are operating at full capacity by 2016, BASF said it expects to employ more than 400 people in Sroda Slaska.

Emissions catalysts produced at the Polish site will be used by manufacturers of light duty gasoline vehicles and light and heavy duty diesel vehicles to meet more stringent Euro 6/VI emissions regulations.

Among the advanced technologies to be produced at the facility, according to BASF, are Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) systems, cutting-edge SCR on Filter (SCRoF) solutions as well branded ozone destruction catalysts for automotive applications.