With an aim to strengthen the company’s supply of high-quality dispersions, BASF has expanded its dispersion production capacity at the Durban site in South Africa. The company celebrates 60 years in the country.

Sunfire recently broke ground for a new green hydrogen test facility at BASF’s Industrial Park Lausitz site in Schwarzheide, Germany. With this project, Sunfire aims to validate its latest and most powerful SOEC product generation in an industrial environment.

Govi Cast has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with BASF to take over its Softex business. The divestment is in line with the company’s goals of focusing on strategic growth areas within Care Chemicals.

With an aim to support its continued commitment to long-term, sustainable operations amid persistently rising costs, BASF has announced a price hike for butyl acrylate and 2-ethylhexly acrylate of up to 100 dollars per metric ton across Asia-Pacific, effective immediately.

With the addition of a new dispersions line at its Mangalore site, BASF aims to strengthen its local production in India in order to support long-term growth in architectural paints, construction and paper industries.

BASF’s newly established Core Transformation Office drives the implementation of cross-unit transformation projects across all core businesses, service units and corporate center units. The program ‘Coreshift’ aims to achieve up to 20 % net cash fixed cost savings in the core by 2029, compared with the 2024 baseline.

Co-located at BASF’s largest refinery catalyst production site globally, in Attapulgus, Georgia, the company has launched a new R&D center for advancements in refinery catalysts. Product development and advanced Fluid Catalytic Cracking testing are at the core of the laboratory’s work.

UPM’s barrier and barrier base papers along with BASF’s Joncryl high performance barrier technology resins will be combined to enable the development of packaging materials suitable for a wide range of food and non-food applications that meet demanding regulatory requirements.

Industrial robots such as aerial drones, ground autonomous robots and explosion-proof robots are steadily being incorporated into industrial plants. Right from carrying out routine plant inspections to entering hazardous zones, industrial robots can do it all.

With an aim to further strengthen its Global Business Services and better meet the evolving needs of BASF’s businesses and significantly improve cost efficiency, BASF has decided to bundle its finance and HR services in a new global Hub in India.