23.10.2017
- Environmental authorities in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate have criticized BASF’s information policy in the wake of a mid-October incident at the chemical giant’s new...
12.04.2017
- BASF sees itself vindicated by the results of one of preliminary investigations into a deadly accident that killed four people at its Ludwigshafen headquarters last autumn and...
16.02.2017
- BASF’s troubled 300,000 t/y TDI plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany, will remain offline for a few more weeks before being partially restarted and operated at a reduced capacity, the...
25.11.2016
- Problems with its new EUR 1 billion TDI complex at Ludwigshafen, Germany, continue to plague BASF. On Nov. 23, the world’s largest chemical producer said the facility with...
01.11.2016
- Citing disruption of supply due to the Oct. 17 explosion and fire at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, main site, BASF has declared force majeure for acrylic monomer-based dispersions...
31.10.2016
- A third member of the BASF fire brigade has succumbed to injuries sustained in the explosion and fire that hit the group’s Ludwigshafen complex on Oct. 17. The death toll has now...
28.10.2016
- Ten days after the deadly explosion that rocked its Ludwigshafen, Germany, headquarters site on Oct.17, BASF executives held a press briefing on the current state of play. As of...
20.10.2016
- Two days after the explosion that killed three people at BASF’s main production site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, neither a suspected cause had been officially determined nor the...
