BASF secures world demand for Hydroxylamine Free Base (HAFB)

03-Nov-2000 - BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany will increase its capacity for Hydroxylamine Free Base (HAFB) at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany during the first quarter of 2001 from 4,000 metric tons p.a. to 5,700 metric tons p.a. (calculated as a 50% ...

BASF plans a world scale plant for glyoxal in Ludwigshafen

25-Oct-2000 - BASF is building a new plant for the production of glyoxal and methylglyoxal at its Ludwigshafen site. The new facility will have a capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year and is expected to go on stream in mid-2002; it will replace the present plant which has a 25,000 ...

BASF to pay special dividend

EK 45 to be paid to shareholders

23-Oct-2000 - BASF Aktiengesellschaft intends to pay its retained earnings charged with 45 percent corporation tax (EK 45) to its shareholders in full in 2001. A proposal to this effect is to be made to the Annual Meeting on April 26, 2001. Thus, in addition to the ...

Joint venture of NOF Corporation and BASF Coatings

13-Oct-2000 - Tokyo. On October 1, the new 50/50 joint venture company of NOF Corporation, Shibuyaku, Tokyo, and BASF Coatings AG, Münster, Germany, became operative under the name BASF NOF Coatings Co., Ltd. The company with a staff of 500 is located in ...

BASF planning another production line in Bibbiano

More Styrodur from Italy

10-Oct-2000 - BASF is going to build a second production line for its extruded polystyrene rigid foam Styrodur® C at its Bibbiano site near Reggio Emilia, Italy. The new facility will have a capacity of 200,000 cubic meters per year and operations are scheduled to start up in the second ...

R-Mandelic Acid increases BASF's ChiProsTM Portfolio

09-Oct-2000 - BASF Intermediates will soon supplement their broad portfolio of ChiProsTM (chiral products) with the addition of R-Mandelic Acid. ChiProsTM is BASF's newly created trademark for optically active intermediates. The new product, R-Mandelic Acid, is used ...

BASF Shanghai Coatings: No. 1 in quality

Compliant with strict environmental standards

28-Sep-2000 - BASF Shanghai Coatings Co. Ltd. is the first paint supplier in China to meet the strict standards of both the American and the German automobile industry as well as the requirements of international environmental management systems. The joint venture was set up by ...

BASF presents Innovation Award 2000

26-Sep-2000 - For the seventh time, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany, has presented its Innovation Award for new in-house developments and their successful implementation. The winners are polyvinylamine, a new class of process chemicals which enables paper to be ...