29.11.2018
- Due to low water levels on the Rhine River, BASF has been faced with restrictions on shipping, and this week was forced to shutter its mammoth TDI plant at Ludwigshafen due to a...
23.10.2017
- Environmental authorities in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate have criticized BASF’s information policy in the wake of a mid-October incident at the chemical giant’s new...
16.02.2017
- BASF’s troubled 300,000 t/y TDI plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany, will remain offline for a few more weeks before being partially restarted and operated at a reduced capacity, the...
25.11.2016
- Problems with its new EUR 1 billion TDI complex at Ludwigshafen, Germany, continue to plague BASF. On Nov. 23, the world’s largest chemical producer said the facility with...
24.10.2016
- With the inauguration of two world-scale production lines, Covestro has doubled production capacity for the engineering plastic polycarbonate from 200,000 to 400,000 t/y at its...
06.10.2016
- The environment ministry in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate has confirmed that it plans to inspect the new 300,000 t/y TDI plant at Ludwigshafen after several incidents...
27.01.2016
- BASF has announced plans to increase prices for its Lupranate brand TDI base material by $100/t in the Middle East and Africa region (MEAF). The German group, world’s largest...
19.01.2016
- With falling oil prices making resource-rich Middle East countries nervous, some of them are looking for new sources of revenue to finance their burgeoning petrochemical empires...
