BASF has recently announced that Marcelo R. Lu, Senior Vice President, Care Chemicals North America, BASF Corporation, will, as President, assume responsibility for the Division South & East Asia, Asean & ANZ, BASF South East Asia, Singapore. While Haryono Lim, Senior Vice President, Senior Project New Verbund Site China, BASF (China) Company, Shanghai, will take over as President, Mega Projects Asia, BASF (China) Company, Shanghai.

The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) published its latest report ‘Case Studies Based on Peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessments – Carbon Footprints of Different Renewable Carbon-based Chemicals and Materials’. The report revealed that renewable carbon-based materials exhibited significant lower CO2 footprint than its fossil counterparts.

BASF Pharma Solutions has introduced its Virtual Pharma Assistants (VPA) Premium Services to its VPAs digital services platform. With the help of these Premium Services, users will have the option to purchase access to new exclusive features within the VPAs.

Messer has selected Sulzer’s mass transfer technologies to assist an innovative carbon capture and utilization process at its Landeck plant in Austria. The unit will make use of Sulzer Chemtech’s carbon capture technology to capture more than 50,000 tons of CO2 per year.

BASF has invested a hefty double-digit million-euro amount to develop a new fermentation plant for biological and biotechnology-based crop protection products at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany.

BASF has completed the production scale-up of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for Svante Technologies, a Canada-based carbon capture and removal solutions provider. The MOFs will be used as solid sorbents for carbon capture projects.

The ‘E-cracking’ or ‘electric’ cracking technology has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 90 % as compared to other traditional crackers. By utilizing electricity from renewable sources, the technology has the capacity to decarbonize one of the most energy-intensive processes in the chemical industry. PROCESS Worldwide tracks down the progress made in this space.

BASF and Zeroavia have plans to carry out research on next generation membrane electrode assemblies for Zeroavia’s high temperature proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stacks for aviation.

Under an agreement signed between both the parties, BASF will gain long-term access to Qore’s bio-based BDO which is made from renewable feedstock. With this, BASF aims to expand its portfolio with bio-based BDO derivatives, including polytetrahydrofuran and tetrahydrofuran.

BASF has partnered with Nanotech Energy to develop lithium-ion in North America with locally recycled content and low CO2 footprint. BASF will produce cathode active materials from recycled metals in Battle Creek, Michigan which will be used to produce lithium-ion battery cells.