The winners have been awarded for their innovative projects that focus on improving health, safety and environmental standards in the chemical industry. Spearheaded by Cefic, the industry council aims to advance the Responsible Care programme in Europe.

Rockwell automation company, has been catering to automation needs of the Indian Oil & Gas (O&G) sector, for more than 60 years. After several major accidents in the O&G industry in the past few years, today the sector is under huge regulatory pressure for maintaining safety and sustainability of operations with stringent concern for preventing environmental damages. Rockwell is all set to address this immediate need through its latest safety PLC – the AADvance...

Chemical giant BASF announced plans to build a new butadiene extraction plant at its production site in Antwerp, Belgium. With a planned annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons, the plant would be bigger than the company's existing butadiene extraction at Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Fluor Corporation has achieved mechanical completion on a citral facility and associated infrastructure for Basf Petronas Chemicals in Kuantan, Malaysia.

BASF plans to increase their production capacity for methane sulfonic acid (MSA) at its Ludwigshafen site by around 65 %, thus increasing their global capacity to 50,000 metric tons per year.

BASF India has recently inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat. With a project cost of INR 1,000 cr (approx €150 million), the site represents BASF’s single largest investment in India.

Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE, and Lin Shaochun, Vice Governor of Guangdong Province, signed a Framework Agreement in Ludwigshafen setting out further details of BASF’s plan to establish a new smart Verbund site in Guangdong, China. The total investment is estimated to reach up to $ 10 billion and will be implemented in phases.

Basf announced that it will gradually reduce its caprolactam production in Europe by 100,000 metric tons to 400,000 metric tons over the next 18 months. In Ludwigshafen, parts of the caprolactam production as well as plants producing the precursors anolone and oleum will be closed.

BASF Catalysts India plans to expand its mobile emissions catalysts production capacity in Chennai by building a new plant. Construction of a new 47,000 square meter facility will begin in December 2013, enhancing the company’s existing emissions catalysts operation with new production lines and manufacturing capabilities...

A union of giants: Chemical heavyweight BASF and Chinese petrochemical giant Sinopec plan a further cooperation for a new world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming, China. With this investment in plasticizers, the two partners could significantly increase their footprint in China's rubber and polymers business, industry experts believe.