Focus on plant biotechnology and crop protection research

17-Feb-2012

BASF announced a USD33million investment to expand its facilities in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. Nearly 80,000 sq. ft. of office, laboratory and greenhouse facilities will support the company’s plant biotechnology and insect control research. This is the first in a series of ...

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Sales in Africa to more than double by 2020

12-Dec-2011

BASF is increasing its presence in the growing African markets. On December 7, 2011, the company opened a new office in Nairobi, Kenya, to serve customers in East Africa and Sub-Sahara. “Africa is a huge continent with a wealth of raw materials and a growing population. At the same time, the ...

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09-Dec-2011

Bayer CropScience announced that it has divested certain fungicides to FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, USA. The transaction includes Rovral® (active ingredient: iprodione) and Sportak® (active ingredient: prochloraz) brand families for worldwide agricultural uses outside Europe. Financial terms of ...

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14-Nov-2011

The Bayer CropScience insecticide Movento® with its two-way systemic mode of action received the Agrow Award in the category “Most innovative Chemistry.” The Agrow Awards are a global recognition of excellence in the crop protection industry. “The recognition by the jury members shows the ...

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Ambitious 2020 Crop Protection sales target

10-Nov-2011

BASF gave a progress report on its integrated farmer-focused approach to agricultural sustainability, first announced in September 2009. Milestones included the assurance of a new method for the comparative assessment of sustainability in agriculture, the creation of a new business pillar charged ...

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Net income more than doubled to EUR 642 million (plus 125.3 percent)

01-Nov-2011

The Bayer Group achieved further sales growth and significantly increased earnings in the third quarter of 2011. “It was a good quarter for Bayer,” Management Board Chairman Dr. Marijn Dekkers said Thursday at the presentation of the interim report. He described the continuing growth momentum in ...

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Ambitious further label expansions planned for Brazilian market

14-Jul-2011

BASF announced that the biological fungicide Serenade was granted registration for apples, onions, and strawberries in the key agriculture market of Brazil. Serenade, the company’s first biological fungicide licensed through US based biopesticides company AgraQuest, will arrive just in time to ...

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19-Nov-2010

Increasing demand has lead Clariant to add polyetheramines to its range of industrial and consumer speciality products. A new reactor in the company’s nitril-amine plant in Gendorf, Germany, has just started production to facilitate the portfolio extension. Polyetheramines are used in a variety ...

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08-Nov-2010

Azelis announced the acquisition of YDS Chemicals, a Belgian based distributor of speciality ingredients. YDS Chemicals specialises in the distribution of personal and home care ingredients, pharmaceutical excipients, speciality food and performance chemicals in the Benelux market. The YDS ...

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02-Sep-2010

A rather acidic success story started at BASF 50 years ago: in the summer of 1960, the company brought on stream the first large-scale manufacturing plant for propionic acid at its integrated Ludwigshafen Verbund site. The inauguration of another facility that produces this carboxylic acid ...

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