BASF announced Q2 results showing flat sales and lowered EBITDA guidance amid weaker margins in base chemicals.

BASF announced mechanical completion of its glacial acrylic acid and butyl acrylate plants at its Zhanjiang Verbund site in China.

BASF announced a new supply agreement with AltaGas that will provide competitive access to butane from Western Canada beginning in 2027.

BASF invited second-round bids for its coatings division, but questions remain about who’s in, who’s out and what it’s worth, according to Bloomberg.

Q1 results show steady EBITDA and strong local operations despite global trade uncertainty.

This new investment will significantly increase the company’s global annual production capacity for alkyl ethanolamines, including dimethyl ethanolamine (DMEOA) and methyl diethanolamine (MDEOA).

Daniel Schönfelder, Ph.D., will succeed Peter Schuhmacher, Ph.D., who will retire effective December 31, 2023, as president of the catalysts division.

The company’s sales amounted to €15.7 billion, down by €6.2 billion compared with the prior-year period. The decline was reportedly due to considerably lower prices, primarily in the materials, chemicals, and surface technologies segments.

The investment adds about 400,000 metric tons per year to BASF's production capacity for these products.

These binders offer the same quality and performance of our existing ACRONAL products, with the added benefit of a reduced CO² footprint for a more sustainable can of paint.

Formulators and R&D and procurement professionals can utilize Knowde to contact experts from BASF and BTC Europe and request documents, samples and quotes.

BASF has developed expertise on the scale-up and production of MOFs, can tailor MOFs to customers’ needs and specifications and has the capacity to produce customized MOFs for various applications and industries.

The new product also offers performance benefits compared to fossil alternatives, showing improved scrub resistance in coatings, shear resistance in adhesives and excellent weatherability.

Planned to come on stream by 2025, the complex will have an annual production capacity of approximately 400,000 metric tons of BA and 100,000 metric tons of 2-EHA.

With the new technical center, the company aims to better serve automotive OEM customers in China with its technology, products, and services.

The specialty chemicals company has announced that Ketan Joshi, Ph.D., has been appointed president of the intermediates division in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

The supervisory board of BASF SE has appointed Stephan Kothrade, Ph.D., president, Intermediates, as a member of its board of executive directors. 

The car was painted with a custom mix of BASF's Glasurit 55 Line basecoat using the formula from its original color and finished with Glasurit 929-255 clearcoat.

The company will expand its portfolio of products with a lower CO₂ footprint and is committed to providing a circular option in every major product line by 2025.

The company will increase production capacity to approximately 600,000 metric tons per year by the middle of the decade to support the ongoing growth of its North American MDI customers.

In BASF’s biomass balance approach, renewable raw materials are used when manufacturing primary chemical products in the production site. The proportion of renewable raw materials is then attributed to certain sales products, according to a certified mass balance method.

The new site offers a comprehensive portfolio of applied surface treatment products and solutions to various market segments, including but not limited to automotive OEM and components, coil, general industry, cold forming, aerospace, aluminum finishing, and glass.

The Surface Treatment global business unit of BASF’s coatings division, operating under the Chemetall brand, has opened its first regional innovation and technology center for applied surface treatment technology in Shanghai, China.

BASF announced it will invest in a new world-scale Neopentyl Glycol (NPG) plant with an annual production capacity of 80,000 metric tons at its Zhanjiang Verbund site, China.

BASF for the first time offers neopentyl glycol (NPG) and propionic acid (PA) with a cradle-to-gate product carbon footprint (PCF) of zero.

Citroën and BASF have unveiled their all-electric concept car oli [all-ë], a manifesto to how much can be saved by reducing weight and resource usage.

BASF Coatings has inaugurated a new research center for electrophoretic dip coating at its headquarters in Münster-Hiltrup, Germany.

Energiekontor AG, a German renewable energies company, has teamed up with the international maintenance company Omega-Tools GmbH and BASF’s coatings division to gradually equip its wind turbines with Novaflex BladeUp, thus making them more efficient.

BASF is collecting submissions to compete for a spot in the 2023 R-M calendar that will be distributed to collision shops and car enthusiasts across the United States and Canada.

Univar Solutions has been named the exclusive distributor for BASF's Chemical Intermediates’ Glyoxal in the United States and Canada. 

Vattenfall, a leading European energy company, is participating in the offshore wind farm tender for Hollandse Kust West (HKW) Sites VI and VII, and is partnering with BASF for Site VI. 

General Motors (GM) recognized BASF’s Coatings division as an Overdrive Award winner as part of its 30^th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony, held recently in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Bodo Möller Chemie Group and BASF SE are expanding their long-standing distribution partnership by establishing a new collaboration in Northwest Africa. 

BASF’s Coatings division has signed a new multi-year Global Industry Partnership with WorldSkills International to help develop new talent in the automotive refinish industry.

BASF has opened a new laboratory building for the development of automotive refinish coatings and innovations beyond paint at its site in Münster, Germany. 

Students across British Columbia, Canada, who are interested in the automotive industry will have a unique opportunity to design and manufacture their own toy pedal cars, thanks to the Automotive Retailers Association (ARA) hosting the event sponsored by BASF and Color Compass Corp.

BASF recently announced it is building a new world-scale production plant for alkylethanolamines at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. 

A new BASF production plant for the intermediate 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) at the Ludwigshafen Verbund site in Germany started regular operations in the fourth quarter of 2021. 

BASF recently announced that the company is modernizing its facilities for the production of chloroformates and acid chlorides at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site. 

BASF recently announced that the company is increasing prices for its additives for the paint and coatings industry globally.

BASF recently announced that the company is increasing the prices of polyalcohols neopentyl glycol (NPG) and 1,6-hexanediol (HDO) in Europe with immediate effect or as existing contracts permit.

Chemical Week has named BASF winner of the Best Sustainable Feedstock Initiative award and the Best Sustainable Product award during the Chemical Week’s 2021 Sustainability Awards.

KaMin LLC, a global performance minerals company owned by IMin Partners, and BASF announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement in which KaMin will acquire the BASF kaolin minerals business. 

BASF and Ørsted recently announced that the two companies have concluded a 25-year fixed-price corporate power purchase agreement.