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BASF Halts TDI Plant due to Shipping Woes

29.11.2018 - Due to low water levels on the Rhine River, BASF has been faced with restrictions on shipping, and this week was forced to shutter its mammoth TDI plant at Ludwigshafen due to a...

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BASF Cutting US Jobs in Solenis Merger

27.11.2018 - BASF Corporation is eliminating 50 jobs as it shuts operations in the environs of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, and merges its paper wet-end and water chemicals business into US...

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BASF Chief Touts new Group Strategy

22.11.2018 - Martin Brudermüller, CEO of BASF since May, this week unveiled a new business strategy aimed at guiding the chemical giant through expected and unexpected turbulence ahead. In a...

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BASF invests in Chinese 3D Printing Firm

08.11.2018 - BASF Venture Capital is taking an unquantified stake in Prismlab, a leading Chinese provider of 3D printing processes and 3D printers headquartered in Shanghai. This is the BASF...

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BASF and Sinopec to Build Second China Cracker

31.10.2018 - BASF and Sinopec have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand their existing joint venture and build a second steam cracker in Nanjing, China. The companies said the...

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KOLON BASF InnoPom Starts Korean plant

30.10.2018 - Germany’s BASF and Korea’s KOLON PLASTICS have started up a new $220 million, 70,000 t/y plant for the engineering plastic polyoxymethylene (POM) at their 50:50 joint venture KOLON...

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BASF may Divest Construction Chemicals

29.10.2018 - BASF is looking to divest its Construction Chemicals business or find a “strong partner,” new CEO Martin Brudermüller said during a conference call with journalists to present...

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BASF Offers EU Concessions on Solvay PA Deal

18.10.2018 - BASF has offered concessions to address European Commission’s concerns about the effect of its planned acquisition of Solvay’s global integrated polyamide (PA) business on...