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BASF and NASi help North American airport battle winter weather
Morristown Airport keeps runways clear with potassium formate
MARION, OH, and FLORHAM PARK, NJ, March 22, 2016 – BASF and Nachurs Alpine Solutions Industrial (NASi) enabled Morristown Airport to keep its runways clear and safe this winter with Alpine™ RF-14F, a deicing product that has less impact on the environment than those currently available. Developed by NASi, a major manufacturer of chemicals and liquid ice melt solutions, Alpine™ RF-14F uses potassium formate, a derivative of BASF’s formic acid.
Morristown Airport, an award-winning airport recognized for its performance in snow and ice control, conducted a trial of Alpine RF-14F with NASi and BASF. A video of the trial is available by clicking here.
“Potassium formate proved to be a comparable if not better choice than other products we have used, quickly dissolving the ice on our high traffic taxiways while consistently maintaining our braking action through the winter season,” said Peter Gilchrist, Manager, Operations and Security of the Morristown Airport.
Potassium formate is a fast-acting, reliable and efficient liquid deicer that can help airports significantly reduce Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) emissions and waste water treatment costs. Alpine RF-14F is AMS 1435 certified and can be applied with existing standard airport spray equipment.
“The opportunity to partner with BASF in producing new chemistries was a perfect one, which allowed us to leverage their new formic acid production facility and offer a deicer alternative to airports looking to minimize their environmental impact,” said Carla Potts, Business Manager of NASi.
BASF recently opened its new formic acid plant in Geismar, Louisiana and is currently the only company in the U.S. to produce the product. By producing formic acid in North America, BASF can reduce delivery times throughout the region for deicing and other applications.
Formic acid as an effective solution in a wide range of applications such as animal feed preservatives, road and runway deicing, household and industrial cleaning, pharmaceutical and other chemical intermediates, and promotion of oil and gas extraction. BASF is the world’s leading producer of formic acid, with production plants at its integrated Verbund sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Nanjing, China and Geismar, Louisiana.
For more information about Formic Acid, visit www.intermediates.basf.com/chemicals/formic-acid/index
About NASi
Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Marion Ohio, Nachurs Alpine Solutions®, is a North American manufacturer and distributor of high quality specialty liquid chemicals. Nachurs Alpine Solutions® agricultural division is a leader in liquid in-furrow fertilizer starters, fertigation products, foliar nutrition and micronutrients for row crops, fruits and vegetables. Since 2000, Nachurs Alpine Solutions Industrial® (NASi®) division has offered products for a range of applications including oil and gas, mining, chemical intermediates, and airfield and industrial deicing. NASi® offers exceptionally safe and environmentally friendly chemistries. NASi®, the Science of Deicing®. www.nasindustrial.com
About BASF
BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has nearly 17,500 employees in North America, and had sales of $17.4 billion in 2015. For more information about BASF’s North American operations, visit www.basf.us.
At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The approximately 112,000 employees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into five segments: Chemicals, Performance Products, Functional Materials & Solutions, Agricultural Solutions and Oil & Gas. BASF generated sales of more than €70 billion in 2015. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (AN). Further information at www.basf.com.
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