BASF has inaugurated a new global Research and Development (R&D) Center at its Thane site in Navi Mumbai, India, focusing on organic synthesis, advanced process and formulation research, discovery chemistry for modern agricultural solutions, and molecular modelling.

BASF will continue to invest in its coatings site in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province in South China, by constructing a new facility for automotive refinish coatings that will start production in the first half of 2022.

Under the terms of the MOU signed by Sibur and BASF, both the companies will work together in areas of water efficiency, carbon footprint management and chemicals recycling. The agreement was signed by Maxim Remchukov, Sustainable Development Director, Sibur and Christoph Roehrig, Head of BASF in Russia and the CIS.

Monolithic structures in process automation will soon be outdated. This will lead to even more competition, Jürgen Brandes, CEO of Siemens Division Process Industries and Drives, says in a double interview with his colleague and CTO Jörn Oprzynski. What role will be left for Distributed Control Systems (DCS) in the future? What can assistance systems already do today, and is autonomous plant operation really going to happen? Our exclusive interview offers up answers to all of these and a lot more questions.

Under the smart Verbund project, BASF has begun to construct its maiden units which will produce engineering plastics and TPU. The site will comprise the latest technologies as well as highest safety and sustainability standards and falls under the firm’s 10-billion-dollar investment project.

BASF is inaugurating a new plant in Yeosu, Korea to strengthen the supply of Ultrason polyarylsulfone, one of the company’s high performance thermoplastics. The new plant, with an annual production capacity of 6,000 metric tons, will better serve the growing market in Asia Pacific.

BASF New Business has formally agreed to acquire the online 3D printing service provider Sculpteo. The agreement was signed on November 14, 2019 and is expected to become effective in the next few weeks pending regulatory approval by the relevant authorities.

Gazprom intends to adopt specialised technologies from BASF in order to improve eco-efficiency and optimise the performance of its Astrakhan gas processing plant in Russia. Gazprom and BASF also have plans to develop a solution for separation of sulfur from natural gas.

BASF reduces Board of Executive Directors from seven to six members BASF has announced that its Board of Executive Directors will be reduced from seven to six members as of January 1, 2020. Board member Sanjeev Gandhi will leave the company at his own request.

Adani, BASF, Adnoc and Borealis have signed a MOU to conduct a joint feasibility study in order to evaluate collaboration for the construction of a 4 billion dollar chemical complex in Mundra, Gujarat, India.