5 November 2015
ABOUT BASF'S INTERMEDIATES DIVISION
DETAILS
- Global leadership position in specialty amines
strengthened - Rising demand for specialty amines in Europe
- Most important application fields are
construction, automotive, pharmaceutical and
crop protection
BASF in Ludwigshafen has started up
a world-scale plant for the production of specialty amines.
The multi-product plant can manufacture
approximately 12,000 metric tons per year of
a product range of about 15 amines for different applications.
Owing to its high flexibility, the plant can also be used
for the production of new specialty amines.
The major applications are currently in
the construction, automotive, crop protection
and pharmaceutical industries.
With the new facility, BASF expands
its global production network for amines with plants in
* Ludwigshafen and Schwarzheide in Germany;
* Antwerp, Belgium;
* Geismar, North America; and
* Nanjing, China.
Dr. Stefan Blank,
President, BASF Intermediates division.
“With the new plant, we are responding to
our customers’ growing demand
for specialty amines, particularly in Europe,”
“We have decades of experience in
developing and manufacturing amines and with
the current expansion we are extending
our global leadership in these versatile intermediates.”
Dr. Christoph Wegner,
Senior Vice President,
heading the regional business unit Amines Europe
within BASF’s Intermediates division,
“The special plant structure allows us to react flexibly
to changes in the need for the various products. In addition,
we can also produce commercial quantities of products
from our innovation pipeline here,”
“Being integrated into the BASF Verbund
at the Ludwigshafen site also allows us
to offer our customers, apart from research,
the scale-up services through a pilot plant,
all the way to the new multi-product plant.”
Contact BASF
Trade Media
Klaus-Peter Rieser
Phone: +49 621 60-95138
klaus-peter.rieser@basf.com
Business Media
Michael Wadle
Phone: +49 621 60-41685
michael.wadle@basf.com
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