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12.09.2023
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
China: Malfunction of BASF cracker in Nanjing / Shutdown impacts downstream production
25.07.2022
BASF
Final approval for Zhanjiang Verbund site / First wholly owned cracker due onstream in 2026 / Complex to be bigger than Nanjing site
12.08.2021
BASF
Capacity expansions planned for JV with Sinopec / New tert-butyl acrylate plant to widen the “Verbund”
14.01.2019
BASF
Framework agreement for Guangdong signed / Sustainability embedded in site concept / Wholly-owned cracker will produce 1m t/y of ethylene
06.11.2018
BASF
MoU with Sinopec for expansion at Nanjing / New cracker planned for 1m t/y of ethylene capacity
12.07.2018
BASF
Second China “Verbund” site planned for Guangdong / Company's third largest globally
20.06.2017
CORRECTION - POLYMER PRICES
China Standard Thermoplastics May 2017: Feedstocks see general drop except for propylene / Commodity market no less exciting than a rollercoaster ride / Demand normal to weak
14.10.2015
BASF / SINOPEC
Plasticiser precursor joint venture BASF MPCC officially starts up / Feedstock for DINP
10.03.2015
POLYMER PRICES
China Engineering Thermoplastics February 2015: Feedstock costs rebound / Chinese New Year holidays throughout most of February / Polymer prices trending up / Processors resume normal operations in late February
09.05.2014
BASF
New 40,000 t/y neopentylglycol plant with Sinopec at Nanjing / Meeting demand from Asian customers
11.04.2014
BASF / SINOPEC
Nanjing-based BASF-YPC joint venture commences acrylic acid and superabsorbent polymers production
25.10.2011
BASF
Fresh investment in Brazilian PU market / New plants for super absorbers in Brazil and China
12.10.2011
BASF
Expanded Nanjing cracker on stream / JV with Sinopec mulls new projects worth EUR 1bn
12.10.2011
PEOPLE
Kothrade to head China's BASF-YPC from 2012
30.11.2010
STYROLUTION
BASF and Ineos plan to operate new business as a 50:50 joint venture / New big styrene player is born
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