BASF celebrates 5 million safe working hours at Chongqing MDI site

Chongqing, China – September 15, 2018 – Sanjeev Gandhi, member of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE, responsible for Asia Pacific, presents a BASF safety helmet to Li Dianxun, Vice-Mayor of Chongqing, during this year’s meeting of the Chongqing Mayor’s International Advisory Council.  The gift honors five million safe working hours of methylene diphenyl di-isocyanate (MDI) production at the BASF site in Chongqing.

About BASF in Greater China

BASF has been a committed partner to Greater China since 1885. With investments in Shanghai, Nanjing and Chongqing, BASF is a major foreign investor in China’s chemical industry, and maintains the Innovation Campus Shanghai as a global and regional research and development hub.  BASF posted sales of €7.3 billion in 2017 to customers in Greater China, and employed 8,982 people as of the end of that year. For further information, please visit www.basf.com/cn.

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At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The more than 115,000 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 €64.5 billion in 2017. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (BAS). Further information at www.basf.com.