A strong partnership: Daniel Schönfelder, President of BASF’s Battery Materials division, and Marc Affüpper, Managing Director of the TSR Group, sign an agreement to collaborate on the recycling of electric vehicle batteries in Europe.
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New electronic grade ammonium hydroxide plant in Ludwigshafen in support of wafer cleaning, etching and other precision processes in semiconductor manufacturing.
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Q1 2026

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Cooperation for battery recycling in Europe

BASF and TSR Group are joining forces to accelerate large-scale battery recycling for electric vehicles in Europe.

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BASF constructs new plant in Ludwigshafen to strengthen European chip industry

For the production of ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH EC)

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Dr. Steffen Rohlmann (right), Development Basecoat EMEA, and Sonja Glanemann (center), Global Sustainability Manager, Automotive OEM Coatings, receive the Sustainability Award in Automotive 2026 – Technology: Operations & Supply Chain – for the Overspray Free Application (OFLA) process from Prof. Dr. Uwe Dieter Grebe from TU Wien – Vienna University of Technology, at the award ceremony in Frankfurt. 
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BASF Coatings wins sustainability award for advancing sustainable automotive paintshop operations  

BASF Coatings has won the Sustainability Award in Automotive 2026 for its Overspray Free Application (OFLA) process, an overspray-free approach to two-tone painting. The award was presented in the ‘Technology: Operations & Supply Chain’ category, which honors tangible technological and process innovations that make a measurable contribution to sustainability by improving industrial operations and production processes.
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