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Helping Hands
As part of the “Helping Hands” aid campaign, BASF is contributing in numerous ways to fight the spread of the coronavirus. For example, BASF is donating hand sanitizer to healthcare facilities in many countries. The cover image shows the Sokalan and Uvinul plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Since mid-April, around 100 metric tons of hand sanitizer have been produced there per week – in addition to the usual production of UV absorbers as well as additives for different applications, such as detergents, cleaning agents and industrial formulations. Sanitizer is not normally part of BASF’s product portfolio. In order to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, plants in Ludwigshafen and other locations therefore adapted their production in a very short time.
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