With a mid-double-digit million-euro investment, BASF has plans to develop a new alcoholates plant at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. On completion, the project is expected to produce sodium methylate and potassium methylate.

BASF’s proprietary OASE blue technology will be utilized by Forestal for the efficient removal of CO2 from flue gases for the production of e-methanol at its Triskelion project in Galicia, Spain.

Silke Wischeropp has been appointed as President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer and will assume responsibility for the Division Corporate Legal, Compliance & Insurance, Ludwigshafen from June 1, 2025.

A 54 MW water electrolyzer was recently inaugurated at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The electrolyzer is expected to slash greenhouse gas emissions at BASF’s main plant by up to 72,000 metric tons per year.

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BASF has plans to sell its Styrodur business to Bachl which is claimed to be one of the leading manufacturers of insulation materials in Germany, an experienced XPS producer and a long-standing Styrodur distribution partner of BASF.

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BASF’s Performance Materials Division has converted all of its European sites to run completely on renewable electricity. The changeover applies to the compounding of Engineering Plastics, Polyurethanes and Thermoplastic Polyurethanes and Specialty Polymers.

With a high double-digit million-euro figure investment, BASF has inaugurated its new catalyst development and solids processing center in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The new center will be used by BASF to develop and optimize innovative process technologies and catalysis processes.

BASF, Endress+Hauser, Technocompound, the University of Bayreuth as well as the University of Jena have partnered together to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be optimized. With this project, the partners will make use of innovative measuring technologies and AI to determine the composition of waste plastics in real time.