Solvay and K+S intend to combine their salt businesses

23-Oct-2000 - Solvay SA, Brussels and K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, intend to join forces on the European salt market. The partners have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding aiming at creating a joint venture that will bring together their salt production sold to ...

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 ...

New Fluff Pulp Debonder for Food Contact – FDA approval achieved

09-Oct-2000 - Goldschmidt AG, the management company of the SKW Performance Chemicals corporate division, has developed a new fluff pulp debonder which conforms to FDA requirements for aqueous and fatty food contact (specifically under 21 CFR 176.170) as well as for dry food contact (21 CFR ...

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 ...

Novartis selects Vivendi Environnement and JOHNSON CONTROLS as future partners for infrastructure services

20-Sep-2000 - Basel, 19 September 2000 – Novartis today announced the outsourcing of non-core activities to Vivendi Environnement and JOHNSON CONTROLS. Subject to successful completion of the due diligence procedure, two joint-venture companies are to be established – for energy supply/waste disposal and for ...