BASF produces two types of styrene with a mass balance approach – renewable feedstock based-styrene and styrene based on chemically recycled feedstock. Trinseo has secured the first supplies of styrene based on the two different kinds of circular feedstock and will use it to produce styrene butadiene rubber and polystyrene products.

By 2050, BASF wants to be climate-neutral. Based on recent progress in the development of CO2-reduced and CO2-free technologies, the company is simultaneously increasing its medium-term reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Perhaps the boldest chemical engineering project in decades. BASF, Sabic and Linde have plans to establish the project at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The partners will make use of renewable electricity for the project which aims at reducing CO2 emissions by as much as 90 %.

BASF and OMV have worked together on an innovative and sustainable technology for producing high-purity isobutene. The novel technology has now been installed at OMV´s new ISO C4 plant in Burghausen, Germany.

BASF has signed an agreement with Allied Carbon Solutions (ACS) Japan and entered into a strategic technology cooperation with Holiferm (UK) to develop a unique production process for biosurfactant products. With this move, the company aims to expand its global leading position in the bio-based surfactants and actives market.

Bota Bio is developing a next-generation biotechnology platform which is a combination of computation and cutting-edge biotechnology. The platform is expected to assist sustainable and economical production of high value products for a broad array of industrial applications.

As part of the plant’s maintenance turnaround, Invista recently completed the technology upgrade of its Victoria plant in Texas, USA with the most advanced adiponitrile (ADN) technology. The move is expected to increase ADN production and further support growth in downstream nylon 6,6 applications.

According to a report by market research and consulting firm Future Market Insights, the global construction chemicals market is expected to increase at over 5 % CAGR in 2021. It further adds that the demand for construction chemicals will be dominant in the Asia Pacific region excluding Japan.

BASF’s new production line in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia will help the company to double its acrylic dispersions capacity and produce new dispersions technologies which will also cater to the ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand markets.

On Wednesday, a fire occurred in the North plant section of BASF's Ludwigshafen site. This resulted in a leak of methyldiethanolamine and oxogas.