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12.05.2025 • News

BASF First Producer of Renewable Ammonia in Central Europe

BASF produces the renewable ammonia grades at its Verbund site in Ludwigshafen.

06.05.2025 • News

Metpack and BASF Cooperate on Compostable Paper

For sustainable food packaging, Metpack is now offering coated paper and cardboard that is home compostable.

22.04.2025 • News

BASF Divests Two Joint Ventures in China

BASF has divested its shares in the joint venture companies, BASF Markor Chemical Manufacturing (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. and Markor Meiou Chemical (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. in Korla, China, to Verde Chemical Singapore Pte. Ltd.

15.04.2025 • News

Cellasto Invests €60 million to Establish Second Plant in China

Cellasto, the world leader in Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) components, is investing roughly €60 million to establish a second plant in Shanghai, China.

12.03.2025 • News

BASF Signs Offtake Agreement with Braven for Recycled Feedstock

BASF and Braven Environmental, a market leader in advanced recycling, have signed a supply agreement for Braven PyChem. This recycled feedstock, derived from mixed plastic waste, will partially replace fossil resources at the BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemical (BTP) facility in Port Arthur, Texas, US, the companies said. Under the agreement, Braven will supply BASF from a multi-unit facility that it plans to build in Texarkana, Texas.

25.02.2025 • News

BASF Expands Cellasto MCU Production in India

BASF India Ltd. has broken ground on a new plant to increase the production capacity of its Cellasto microcellular polyurethane (MCU) in Dahej, India.

20.02.2025 • News

Global Leaders Launch Innovative Circularity Pilot

The Global Impact Coalition (GIC), a CEO-led collaborative platform originally incubated at the World Economic Forum, launches the world’s first Automotive Plastics Circularity pilot together with seven global leaders in the chemical and recycling industries.

11.12.2024 • Topics • Strategy

Circular Solutions

The path to a sustainable, net-zero future for the chemical industry is paved with challenges – and also opportunities.

26.11.2024 • News • Strategy

Circular Solutions

The path to a sustainable, net-zero future for the chemical industry is paved with challenges – and also opportunities.

06.11.2024 • News

Solenis Completes Acquisition of BASF’s Mining Flocculants Business

US specialty chemicals company Solenis has acquired BASF’s flocculants business for mining applications. With this strategic acquisition, Solenis enhances its portfolio for mining and mineral processing customers. The transaction, for which financial details were not disclosed, was first announced in July.

29.08.2024 • News

BASF Coatings Opens New Application and Technical Center in China

BASF's Coatings division has inaugurated its new application and technical center in Jiangmen, China, which is located within the site of BASF Coatings (Guangdong) (BCG).

26.06.2024 • News

BASF and Eramet Cancel Plans on Nickel-Cobalt Refining Complex in Indonesia

13.06.2024 • Topics • Strategy

Using Chemistry to Create Net-Zero Value Chains

In this interview, Charlie Tan, CEO of the Global Impact Coalition (GIC), explains the initiative’s scope and describes some key activities.

15.05.2024 • News

BASF to Expand Additives Plant in China

BASF is to invest in the expansion of its advanced additives plant at Nanjing, China. The expansion includes a state-of-the-art production line for the company’s high-performance controlled free radical polymerization (CFRP) dispersants used in the coatings industry. The new line is planned to start up by the end of 2025.

17.04.2024 • News

BASF Launched Prototype Metal Refinery for Battery Recycling in Germany

BASF has started operations at its prototype metal refinery for battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The plant enables the development of operational procedures and the optimization of innovative battery recycling technology, processing end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and battery production scrap, the company said.

13.12.2023 • News

BASF Completes Geismar Specialty Amines Expansion

BASF has completed its capacity expansion for key specialty amines manufactured at its US site in Geismar, Louisiana. The project, announced in June 2022, allows the company to increase production of polyetheramines and amine catalysts marketed under the Baxxodur and Lupragen brands.

20.11.2023 • News

CEFIC Anounces EU Responsible Care Award Winners

The European Chemical Industry Council, CEFIC, announced 26 companies and national associations as the key initiatives featured in the 2023 European Responsible Care Awards Gallery.

17.10.2023 • News

BASF Expands Ethylene Oxide Complex in Antwerp

BASF invested over €500 million to increase its production capacity by 400,000 metric tons per year. The expansion includes a world-scale ethylene oxide plant and additional capacities for EO derivatives. This investment aims to meet the rising customer demand for alkoxylates in the home care, industrial & institutional industries, and various industrial applications.

23.08.2023 • News

Cheniere and BASF Sign LNG Agreement

Cheniere Energy and BASF signed a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement (SPA).

12.07.2023 • News

BASF and Polyester Resin Producer KHUA Cooperate in China

KHUA plans to build a production plant for high-quality powder coatings in Zhanjiang and concludes a supply agreement for the precursor neopentyl glycol with BASF.

07.07.2023 • News

Thyssenkrupp Uhde Wins Contract for BASF’s Surfactant Plant in Thailand

The Thailand branch of German engineering contractor Thyssenkrupp Uhde has won a contract by BASF to provide engineering services and proprietary equipment supply for its new non-ionic surfactant (NIS) plant at its Zhanjiang Verbund Site Project in Guangdong Province, China.

04.07.2023 • News

BASF and Yara Clean Ammonia to Study US Project

BASF and Yara Clean Ammonia (YCA), a unit of Norwegian fertilizer producer Yara, have teamed up on a joint study to develop and build a world-scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility with carbon capture in the US Gulf Coast region.

28.06.2023 • News

Venture Global “on Track” to Be Germany’s Top LNG Supplier

Venture Global, a US-based exporter of LNG, which has just agreed two major supply deals with German customers, says it is on track to solidify its position as the country’s largest supplier of liquefied natural gas.

20.06.2023 • News

BASF Breaks ground for Zhanjiang PE Plant

BASF has broken ground for its new 50,000 t/y polyethylene plant due to go on stream at its integrated production site in Zhanjiang, China, in 2025. The new facility will be its first PE unit in the People’s Republic.

19.06.2023 • News

Shell Reviews Singapore, Europe Assets

Shell is reviewing operations in Singapore, with a view to repurposing, selling or decommissioning assets in Bukom and Jurong Island. The energy and chemicals giant will also “high-grade and right-size” its energy and chemicals parks in Europe, which could mean plant closures.

07.06.2023 • News

BASF Expanding APGs at two Production Sites

To meet growing global demand, BASF is expanding output of global alkyl polyglucosides (APGs) at Bangpakong, Thailand, and Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. The group also produces the mild surfactants at Düsseldorf, Germany, and Jinshan, China. In North America, it is sole manufacturer.

25.05.2023 • News

Second German Fluegas Capture Unit to use BASF Process

Complementing a deal recently signed with Germany’s Messer industrial gases group for a carbon dioxide recovery plant in Austria, BASF has announced that a new flue gas recovery technology based on its OASE blue process will be used by a new joint venture of industrial gases and engineering group Linde and cement producer Heidelberg Materials.

15.05.2023 • News

Messer and BASF Team up on CO2 Recovery

German family-owned industrial gases producer Messer has announced plans to build a carbon dioxide recovery plant at an undisclosed location in Austria, leveraging in part technology from compatriot BASF.

28.04.2023 • News

Germany Weighs Merits of Growing China Trade

As April winds down and major German chemical companies hold their annual shareholder meetings, questions are being asked whether about the country is tying its trade too closely to with China and repeating the same mistakes it made earlier by becoming dependent on Russian gas.

21.04.2023 • News

IVL Seeks new Battery Partner as Capchem Deal Folds

Thailand’s Indorama Ventures (IVL) says it is “continuing to assess” plans to build and operate a plant for “world-class” lithium-ion battery solvents at one of its petrochemical facilities on the US Gulf Coast, but no longer with Capchem USA, subsidiary of China’s Shenzen-Capchem Technology.

24.03.2023 • News

Cinven to Buy MBCC Admixture Assets from Sika

Private equity investor Cinven is acquiring MBCC Group’s admixture business from Swiss construction chemicals major Sika on the rebound. Earlier, the British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had turned thumbs down on plans to sell the business to Ineos, citing antitrust concerns.

21.03.2023 • News

Aramco and Linde Link on Ammonia Cracking

Saudi Aramco and Linde Engineering have agreed to jointly develop new ammonia cracking technology and plan to build a demonstration plant in northern Germany.

17.03.2023 • News

Lummus Wins Kazakhstan Butadiene Contracts

Lummus Technology has received a contract to supply multiple technologies to Butadiene LLP for a new petrochemical complex in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.

14.03.2023 • News

Coolbrook and Linde Collaborate on Cracker Electrification

Finnish technology and engineering company Coolbrook has signed a partnership agreement with Germany’s Linde Engineering to develop and deploy its RotoDynamic Reactor (RDR) technology that replaces fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating the furnaces in ethylene crackers.

09.03.2023 • News

BASF Expands Aroma Ingredients in China, Germany

BASF is expanding its global capacity for aroma ingredients citral, menthol and lnaloon at existing locations in China and Germany. The biggest investment will involve construction of a new citral plant at its growing integrated site in Zhanjiang, China. New plants for menthol and linalool will to be built at Ludwigshafen.

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