BASF is taking a number of steps to strengthen the competitiveness of its Performance Products segment. The segment bundles BASF’s businesses with chemicals that improve the properties of many different end-user products. The ...
Tags: BASF, Performance Products, Construction
BASF increased its sales and income from operations (EBIT) before special items in the first quarter of 2013. At €19.7 billion, sales exceeded the level of the previous first quarter by 5%. Sales volumes grew particularly as a result ...
Germany-based BASF and Malaysia-based PETRONAS Chemicals (PCG) plan to establish an aroma ingredients facility at their existing joint venture site BASF PETRONAS Chemicals in Gebeng, Kuantan, Malaysia with an investment of MYR1.5bn ($500m). ...
Tags: Petronas Chemicals, Food
Ultrafiltration specialist inge GmbH, part of BASF, has secured a major contract in Spain for a large-scale desalination project in Ghana. The Spanish plant constructor Abeinsa EPC has been commissioned by Ghana's state-run Ghana Water ...
Tags: Seawater Desalination, Machinery
BASF is taking firm steps to stop the distribution of counterfeit versions of its Irgacure® 819 photoinitiator product. After repeatedly issuing notifications, BASF has contacted distributors identified as offering counterfeit Irgacure ...
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BASF has combined its water solutions and oilfield and mining solutions businesses from April 2013. BASF says that this is to increase efficiency and support its growth strategies. The new global business unit will be located in ...
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Chemical company BASF has announced the launch of a new solution for the production of packaging paper and board, under the brand name XELOREXTM. The new BASF brand XELOREX reduces complexity in the wet-end through its 4-in-1 ...
Tags: BASF, Paper Industry, Packaging
BASF Coatings Japan Ltd. has been granted a patent for a method of forming a metallic tone glitter paint film comprised of applying a first base metallic paint for providing a sense of glitter with a metallic tone to a base material, the ...
Russia's Gazprom and Dutch company Gasunie have signed an agreement to explore the possibility of expanding the Nord Stream gas pipeline as well as setting up other gas infrastructure projects in Northwest Europe and the UK, the companies ...
Tags: gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
European naphtha prices have come under pressure from run cuts in the polyolefin chain as well as falling crude prices, with ICE Brent futures sinking to an eight-month low Friday, sources said. CIF NWE naphtha was assessed at $846.50/mt ...
Tags: polyethylene market, polyethylene
BASF has launched a new global construction website with a focus on sustainability ( www.construction.basf.com ), offering quick and easy access to essential information for the industry stakeholders. The website presents the ...
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For the ninth time in the past 11 years, BASF has received General Motors’ (GM) Supplier of the Year Award. Beate Ehle, president market and business development BASF North America and Joe Schmondiuk, vice president of global ...
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BASF will increase the price for all medium solids styrene butadiene emulsion polymers by $0.05 per wet pound in North America, effective March 29, 2013 or as contracts allow. This price increase involves BASF products under the tradename ...
Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is raising its prices for N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) in Europe by 30 € per ton or by the equivalent amount in local currency. DMF is a versatile organic solvent that is ...
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Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
Tags: Chemicals, plastic film, Packaging, Printing