BASF will build a new plant to produce Ultrason® polyethersulfone (PESU), one of BASF’s high-performance thermoplastics, at the company’s site in Yeosu, Korea. The annual capacity of the new plant is 6,000 metric tons. Construction of this specialty plastics plant will start in early 2012 and production is expected to begin by early 2014. About 50 new jobs will be created once the plant is operational.

01-Dec-11

Teklas, a Turkish automotive supplier has actively pushed development of water-assisted injection molding technology (WIT) for manufacturing hollow plastic parts. The company produces fluid-carrying tubes for automobiles in high volumes from BASF’s special Ultramid® A3HG6 WIT. This polyamide 66 grade offers good inside and outside surfaces as well as the required high chemical resistance. The new tubes provide individual conveying of cooling water, air and oil in the engine compartment.

21-Nov-11

BASF has been producing caprolactam using a large-scale continuous process at Ludwigshafen for half a century now. During this time around 6.5 million tons of the polyamide 6 intermediate have left the site. With two more plants at Antwerp, Belgium, and Freeport Texas, US, and a total production capacity of 800,000 tons per year, BASF today is the world's largest manufacturer of caprolactam.

11-Nov-11

The Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt) - German Institute for Construction Technology - in Berlin has given BASF's Styrodur® C (XPS: extruded rigid polystyrene foam) technical approval for multiple layers as perimeter insulation in groundwater. Up to three layers of the insulating material can now be used under non-load-bearing foundation slabs and on basement walls at a total thickness of up to 400 millimeters. Perimeter insulation reduces heat losses at the bottom of a building.

10-Nov-11