30 November 2017
DETAILS
BASF today celebrated the official opening of its new,
world-scale chemical catalysts manufacturing plant
in Caojing, Shanghai, China.
The new plant is BASF’s first chemical catalysts manufacturing
facility in the Asia Pacific region.
The BASF wholly-owned plant is located
in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) in Caojing.
It will serve the growing chemical industry
in China and around the Asia Pacific region,
with base metal catalysts and absorbents.
The plant will be highly automated and energy efficient.
Leveraging experience from the eleven chemical catalyst
manufacturing sites around the world, the new plant will use
cutting-edge production technologies
to manufacture innovative catalysts and adsorbents.
These are used, for example, in the production of
fatty alcohols, styrene, butanediol.
BASF adsorbents are used in many applications
to remove impurities from product streams,
for example to purify olefins.
Butanediol is a raw material in the production of
THF and poly-THF (Spandex), while
poly butylene terephthalate (PBT) is used predominantly
in engineering polymers.
Styrene is for example polymerized into polystyrene,
which finds applications in packaging or insulation for buildings.
Fatty alcohols are used as detergents and surfactants,
typically used in cosmetics and in the food industry.
The new site will be supported by
the new Process Catalyst R&D Center, located within
the BASF Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Pudong, Shanghai,
which is focusing on the development of new process catalyst
to meet specific needs in Asia.
With strong research competencies in
catalyst preparation, scaling and performance evaluation,
this R&D Center
* will further strengthen the collaboration with partners
in the region,
* and will provide support to
the new chemical catalyst manufacturing site.
Contact BASF
Matthias Bartmann
Phone: +49 621 60-43920
matthias.bartmann@basf.com
Sophie Lyu
Phone: +86 21 2039-3252
sophie.lyu@basf.com
Genevieve Hilton
Phone: +852 2731 0197
genevieve.hilton@basf.com
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