For BASF Nigeria is a particularly dynamic growing market for construction chemicals in West Africa. The new production plant for concrete additives in Lagos/Nigeria will help the construction industry to become less dependent on imports and reduce long lead times for supplies. Besides Nigeria BASF concentrates on neighboring west African countries, too.

Basf will be offering its customers in Europe GPPS (general purpose polystyrene) from its production facility in Ludwigshafen.

Praxair’s Southeast Louisiana pipeline network is supplying hydrogen and is being used by Marathon Petroleum in an ultra-low-sulfur diesel project.

Dr. Stefan Blank, Dr. Andrea Frenzel, Ralph Schweens and Manfredo Rübens have been appointed in their new roles.

Following the opening of the world-scale ammonia plant in Freeport, Praxair has started to supply hydrogen and nitrogen to Yara Freeport LLC. The plant, which is a joint venture between Yara International and BASF, has a capacity of 750,000 metric tons per year.

PROCESS Innovation Award nominates the Champions of Innovations 2015 — A smartphone that understands pumps? A virtual chromatography process? An innovative material? These and many other developments have the potential to fundamentally change the industry. Anyone believing that all significant inventions in the process industry have already been made is much mistaken: At Achema 2015, we have searched for the innovation champions — with surprising results.

Yara International ASA and BASF opened a new world-scale ammonia plant in Freeport, USA. The $ 600-million facility uses production process, based on by-product hydrogen instead of natural gas.

World–scale peroxide plant project in Saudi–Arabia: The Saudi Hydrogen Peroxide Company, a joint–venture of Solvay and Sadara, just stated the construction of one of the world's largest hydrogen peroxide plants...

Located at the Verbund site, the annual capacity of the plant is expected to reach 80,000 metric tons, on expansion. This move will further strengthen strategic success between the two companies.

Engineeringcompany Fluor and BASF signed an agreement to continue their global engineering collaboration.