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BASF Presents Innovations for Sustainable Chemistry and Agriculture

The combination of technological excellence and sustainable solutions is increasingly becoming a success factor for BASF. Examples from BASF research illustrate how innovative technologies can revolutionize the chemical and agricultural industries and offer not only direct competitive advantages, but also impulses for the sustainable transformation of the industry.

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OQ Chemicals Starts up Esters Pilot Plant

OQ Chemicals has successfully started up its new pilot plant for esters at Oberhausen, Germany. The company said the facility enables it to manufacture small quantities of esters tailored to customer needs for test purposes before making an industrial-scale investment.

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Start-ups Accelerate Innovation

Virtually all areas of our lives would be inconceivable without products that come directly or indirectly in contact with chemical production: It affects the modern office environment, our private lives and thus our well-being and life fulfilment including health, leisure and personal protection.

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