Sustainability News

Saving CO₂ together – this is the motto of the cooperation between the Uzin Utz Group, a full-range supplier of flooring systems, and the chemical company BASF SE. The driver for more climate protection and sustainability is BASF's biomass balance approach. 

Today in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Dr. Martin Brudermüller (BASF) and Dr. Markus Krebber (RWE), accompanied by Chairman of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union (IG BCE) Michael Vassiliadis, presented a project idea that shows how industrial production can become sustainable and future-proof. The project envisions an additional offshore wind farm with a capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW) to provide the Ludwigshafen chemical site with green electricity and enable CO₂-free production of hydrogen. The aim is to electrify the production processes for basic chemicals, which are currently based on fossil fuels.

BASF announced today the expansion of its Seneca, South Carolina, USA, Platinum Group Metals (PGM) refining facility. The company will invest double-digit millions in capital improvements to increase refining capacity to recycle precious metals from spent catalysts such as automotive catalytic converters.

The Value Balancing Alliance (VBA) piloted its methodology for standardized accounting of corporate value contributions. For the first time, the initiative used its method to calculate BASF's economic, environmental and social impacts.

BASF's online educational program Virtual Lab, in which children can experience the fascination of natural sciences through gaming, focuses on environmental pollution and the dangers of microplastics. The free offer gives children the opportunity to slip into the role of a researcher and conduct experiments in the virtual world of a laboratory.