29 July 2013
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BASF is building
a new polyamide polymerization plant
with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year
in Shanghai, China
with planned start-up in 2015.
The BASF wholly-owned plant will be built
at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in Caojing
which is also home to a world scale facility for
integrated isocyanates, operated by BASF and partners.
At this location, BASF also has production plants for
Tetrahydrofuran (THF) and polyisocyanate
for the coating and furniture finishing industry and
precious metal solutions for automotive catalysts.
BASF,
Dr.Albert Heuser,
President and Chairman Greater China and Functions Asia Pacific
- As part of our long-term strategy, we aim to
locate production close to our customers in Asia Pacific region,
so that we can better
* support their growth ,
* operate more efficiently and
* collaborate more closely
- BASF intends to
* grow two percentages point above the market in Asia Pacific and
* maintain our commitment to environmental protection as well as
ensuring a positive contribution to society for a sustainable future.
Hermann Althoff,
Senior Vice President of the Polyamide and Intermediates Business Unit
- The demand for polyamide products in the
* engineering plastics,
* fiber and film industries
will grow strongly particularly in China.
- The investment enables us to participate in the growth and
supply our Asian customers
with locally manufacturing high performance products
BASF and Polyamide Business
- BASF operates polyamide polymerization plants in
* Germany, Ludwigshafen
* Belgium, Antwerp
* USA, Texas, Freeport
* Brazil, Sao Paulo
- The production of polyamide for film, textile and carpet fibers
as well as for engineering plastics applications is integrated into
BASF's Global Verbund structure with
* polyamide intermediates
(i.e., adipic acid, anolon, caprolactam),
* chemical raw materials
(i.e., ammonia, cyclohexane, sulfuric acid),
* energy, by-product recovery, logistics and other services.
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