18.06.2014
- Butadiene shortages loom as plastics manufacturers switch their feedstock to less expensive light feed. Estimates suggest it could be as little as 7% over the next decade if only...
13.06.2014
- BASF is investing more than €200 million to expand US production capacity for key herbicides dicamba and DMTA at its Beaumont, Texas, site and upgrade production at Hannibal...
12.06.2014
- BASF and Lafarge have announced plans for a new construction chemicals joint venture at Erbil in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan. The new partnership links the world's...
11.06.2014
- Under the name Provisia, BASF has developed a new herbicide-tolerant rice system that it said will provide farmers with a new tool for post-emergence control of a broad range of...
10.06.2014
- Germany plans to draw up new regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, before the parliamentary summer recess in August. While the regulations will allow fracking in some...
09.06.2014
- Ralf A. Spettmann has been appointed president of BASF's Construction Chemicals operating division in Ludwigshafen, Germany, effective September 1, 2014. Currently senior vice...
06.06.2014
- Controversy And Competition - The Soccer World Cup from June 12 to July 13 in Brazil will captivate millions of people. However, such a big event is not without controversy...
06.06.2014
- The Right Dynamics -With a gross domestic product (GDP) of $2.2 trillion in 2013, the World Bank ranks Brazil as the world's seventh largest economy and one of the two economic...
