Production capacities to be expanded for several downstream chemical plants

09-Aug-2021

BASF and SINOPEC will further expand their Verbund site operated by BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BASF-YPC), a 50-50 joint venture of both companies in Nanjing, China. It includes the capacity expansion of several downstream chemical plants, including a new tert-butyl acrylate plant to support the growing ...

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Partners intend to explore new business opportunities in battery materials

29-Oct-2018

BASF and SINOPEC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Beijing to further strengthen their partnership in upstream and downstream chemical production in China. The partners intend to build an additional steam cracker and to further expand their existing 50:50 joint venture, BASF-YPC ...

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15-Jan-2018

Clariant announced that it has signed two key agreements with SINOPEC, China’s largest petroleum and chemical company. The agreements were signed in Beijing by the companies’ senior management on September 27, 2017. The first of these is the FCAS Series Sorbent Agreement in which SINOPEC has ...

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Annual capacity to double, to 80,000 metric tons per year

21-Dec-2017

BASF and SINOPEC will expand the production capacity of Neopentylglycol (NPG) at the state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China. The plant was established in 2015 with an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons. Following the expansion, the annual ...

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13-Oct-2015

BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) inaugurated their world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, Maoming, China. The plant will be run by BASF MPCC Company Limited (BMC), which is a 50-50 joint venture between BASF and SINOPEC. It has ...

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New MDI plant in Shanghai

02-Jul-2014

BASF, Huntsman, Shanghai Hua Yi (Group) Company, Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co. Ltd. and SINOPEC Group Assets Management Corporation held a ceremony kicking off the construction of a new plant with a production capacity of 240,000 metric tons of crude MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) per ...

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08-May-2014

BASF and SINOPEC will build a new world-scale production plant for Neopentylglycol (NPG) at their state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China. The plant, with a total annual capacity of about 40,000 metric tons is planned to go on stream at the end ...

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06-Nov-2013

KRAHN CHEMIE and Sinopec Europa Handels GmbH have agreed to work together to distribute styrene butadiene styrene (SBS), styrene ethylene butadiene styrene (SEBS), and styrene isoprene styrene (SIS) in Europe. Suijun Yang, Manager Chemical Department of Sinopec Europa Handels GmbH, explains the ...

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24-Jan-2013

BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation have completed a joint feasibility study and taken the next steps in the establishment of a world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming. Under the terms of the feasibility study, a new 50-50 joint venture will be formed, BASF MPCC Co. Ltd. ...

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12-Sep-2012

ICIS Chemical Business magazine has unveiled its annual ICIS Top 100 Chemical Companies listing ranked by 2011 sales. At the top is Germany's BASF with $95.2bn in sales, followed by a new number two - China's Sinopec with $65.8bn in chemical sales, which edged out US-based ExxonMobil Chemical ...

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