Keyword: Ludwigshafen

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BASF’s Contaminated TDI Unlikely Health Risk

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...

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BASF Says no Fault Obvious in Ludwigshafen Blast

12.04.2017 - BASF sees itself vindicated by the results of one of preliminary investigations into a deadly accident that killed four people at its Ludwigshafen headquarters last autumn and...

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BASF’s Ludwigshafen TDI plant to Partially Restart

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...

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BASF TDI Plant Goes Down Again

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...

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BASF Declares FM for Certain Acrylic Products

01.11.2016 - Citing disruption of supply due to the Oct. 17 explosion and fire at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, main site, BASF has declared force majeure for acrylic monomer-based dispersions...

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Third BASF Firefighter Succumbs to Injuries

31.10.2016 - A third member of the BASF fire brigade has succumbed to injuries sustained in the explosion and fire that hit the group’s Ludwigshafen complex on Oct. 17. The death toll has now...

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BASF Addresses Questions of Ludwigshafen Blast

28.10.2016 - Ten days after the deadly explosion that rocked its Ludwigshafen, Germany, headquarters site on Oct.17, BASF executives held a press briefing on the current state of play. As of...

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BASF Deals With Aftermath of Deadly Blast

20.10.2016 - Two days after the explosion that killed three people at BASF’s main production site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, neither a suspected cause had been officially determined nor the...