10.11.2015
- BASF has signed an exclusive agreement with Mexican chemicals distributor, Pochteca, covering Mexico and Central America. Pochteca will distribute BASF’s water-treatment products...
06.11.2015
- BASF has started production at its new specialty amines plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The multi-product facility can manufacture about 12,000 t/y of around 15 amines for uses in...
04.11.2015
- BASF has completed the divestment of its global paper hydrous kaolin (PHK) business to Imerys, a French producer of mineral-based specialty solutions for industry. The German group...
02.11.2015
- Mexico’s Alpek will boost capacity for expandable polystyrene (EPS) at Altamira by 75,000 t/y, taking total production to 240,000 t/y. Construction work is scheduled to start next...
28.10.2015
- Just as analysts were talking up an acquisition by DuPont of the agricultural business US rival Dow Chemical may put up for sale, the company’s interim CEO, Edward Breen, appears...
27.10.2015
- Chemical market watchers are looking especially intensely at the agriculture sector in the wake of the failed takeover of Switzerland’s giant, Syngenta, by US giant Monsanto. As...
22.10.2015
- As part of a new five-year framework agreement for the Ludwigshafen main site and its 36,000 employees, BASF has extended its guarantees that there will be no involuntary layoffs...
14.10.2015
- BASF has enrolled 50 refugees in its new “Start Integration” qualification scheme for workers needing help to find jobs. The German chemical group said enrollment for the program...
