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Trade News | March 31, 2025

BASF’s Care Chemicals division publishes its Responsible Sourcing Report for 2024

Ludwigshafen, Germany, March 31, 2025 – BASF’s Care Chemicals operating division today released the third edition of its Responsible Sourcing Report (RSR). The report shows the division’s progress in 2024 in the three pillars of sustainability – economy, environment and society. At the same time, it underscores BASF’s commitment to sustainability, demonstrating the company’s dedication to supporting smallholder farmers and promoting sustainable practices. BASF’s comprehensive sustainability statement can be found in the company’s Annual Report 2024.
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BASF engagiert sich aktiv für die Prävention von Verlusten von Kunststoffgranulaten, -flocken und -pulvern während ihrer Handhabung bei der Produktion, der Verarbeitung, dem Recycling und dem Transport im Rahmen des OCS Programms. Foto: BASF SE
Trade News | March 27, 2025

BASF receives Operation Clean Sweep® certification at all its European production sites for plastic pellets

All BASF's European production sites for engineering plastics, polystyrene, expandable polystyrene, polyurethane, thermoplastics polyurethanes, polyamides and specialty polymers are now certified by independent third parties according to the Operation Clean Sweep ® (OCS) standard. 
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Trade News | March 27, 2025

loopamid now commercially available: BASF starts up its first plant for recycled polyamide 6

Ludwigshafen, Germany/Shanghai, China: BASF announced the start-up of the world’s first commercial loopamid® plant. 
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The individual electrolyzer modules are linked to each other and to the H2 network at the site in three so-called arrays. Photo: BASF SE
Business & Financial News | March 17, 2025

BASF commissions 54-megawatt water electrolyzer

Germany’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer has gone into operation at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site. Designed to produce zero-carbon hydrogen, the electrolyzer has a connected load of 54 megawatts and the capacity to supply the main plant with up to one metric ton of this substantial chemical feedstock every hour. After a construction period of around two years, the plant was officially inaugurated today in the presence of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, and Mobility Katrin Eder, and Udo Philipp, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
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BASF and research partners study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved by integrating such methods directly in the process.
Business & Financial News | December 19, 2024

BASF and research partners collaborate to optimize mechanical recycling of plastics

Together with Endress+Hauser and TechnoCompound as well as the universities of Bayreuth and Jena, BASF is researching how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved by precisely identifying the composition of plastic waste. The SpecReK project uses state-of-the-art measurement methods and artificial intelligence to improve the quality of the recycled plastic.
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