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BASF plans to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) plant at the company’s proposed integrated chemical production (“Verbund”) site in Zhanjiang, China. These will be the first production plants to come onstream at the site.

BASF 3D Printing Solutions is to provide innovative additive manufacturing mate-rials to Paxis LLC for their new WAV™ technology. This is currently in develop-ment and is designed to meet the needs of additive manufacturing users, ad-vanced manufacturing as well as traditional manufacturing markets. The WAV™ (Wave Applied Voxel) process was created with the end-user firmly in mind in an effort to solve trapped volume issues of within current liquid resin-based technol-ogies.

BASF 3D Printing Solutions and strategic partner Origin, an open-platform addi-tive-manufacturing printer provider are collaborating with ECCO, a footwear man-ufacturer to develop a wholly new approach to footwear production. The Danish ECCO Group, an innovative global manufacturer of high-quality footwear, is us-ing the Origin platform with BASF’s Ultracur3D material at its R & D Center in Denmark headquarters. The initial results demonstrate outstanding detail accura-cy and mechanical stability with Origin’s unique programmable polymerization process (P3).