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.
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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.
Circular Solutions
The path to a sustainable, net-zero future for the chemical industry is paved with challenges – and also opportunities.
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
BASF and Eramet Cancel Plans on Nickel-Cobalt Refining Complex in Indonesia
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.
