BASF’s Agricultural Solutions Announces its First CO2-Emission-Free Site in China

Decarbonization BASF’s Agricultural Solutions Announces its First CO2-Emission-Free Site in China

2024-10-14 Source: Press release BASF 1 min Reading Time

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The Rudong site in China is BASF Agricultural Solutions’ first CO2-emission-free production site. The site has modified its existing heating system from fossil-based steam to renewable energy.

Rudong becomes BASF Agricultural Solutions’ first CO2-emission-free production site.(Source: BASF) — Rudong becomes BASF Agricultural Solutions’ first CO2-emission-free production site.
(Source: BASF)

Ludwigshafen/Germany – The BASF production site in Rudong, China has reduced CO2 emissions to zero1 by modifying its existing site heating system from steam to electricity generated from renewable energy. As a result, the facility in the Chinese province of Jiangsu is the first site of BASF’s Agricultural Solutions segment to be CO2 emission-free¹.

Since 2021, the Rudong site switched to electricity from renewable energy sources, making steam the largest contributor to the site’s CO2 emissions. In June 2024, the existing steam heating system was decommissioned and fully replaced with a renewable energy supply. The result of which is an additional CO2 emission reduction of around 1,100 tons per year. Along with achieving zero CO2 emissions in Rudong, BASF has also signed an agreement with a local electricity supplier to ensure a long-term supply of renewable energies to power the site.

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“The achievement in Rudong underlines our determination to deliver on the demand of our customers and society for low-emission, high-quality crop protection products,” said Christian Aucoin, Senior Vice President Global Operations at BASF Agricultural Solutions. “It is a major step to transform traditional manufacturing processes, living up to our sustainability commitments in agriculture.”

In Rudong, BASF Agricultural Solutions formulates crop protection products for China and other markets in the Asia-Pacific region. By producing without emitting CO2 (Scope 1 and 2), the site contributes to reducing BASF’s corporate carbon footprint- per the company's target of 25 % reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030 compared to 2018 and helps meet its overall ambitions of achieving net zero CO2 emissions globally by 2050 (Scopes 1, 2, 3.1). BASF has published a comprehensive corporate carbon footprint since 2008, the only industrial enterprise worldwide to do so.

¹Scope 1 & 2.

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