BASF

Cost cuts save EUR 1 bn / Core profit to rise on growth in nearly all segments / Restructuring remains priority, says CEO

BASF

Plastics-relevant segments boost Q3 earnings / Adjusted core operating profit now expected at lower end of forecast

BASF

German government to fund ‘world's most powerful' industrial heat pump at Ludwigshafen / Carbon-free steam

BASF

Petrochemicals and Materials division focus on China and Verbund strategy / “Three-step approach not enough” – criticism from trade union and works council

BASF

Reorganisation at chemicals giant / One third of group no longer considered core business / Plastics remain central

PFAS

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “We won't accept an undifferentiated blanket ban” / Speech at the VCI summit in Berlin

UPDATE - BASF

Explosion at Ludwigshafen site / Plastics-relevant operations not affected

BASF

Additional closures at Ludwigshafen under discussion / HQ to remain ‘largest and most important site' / Chemical businesses prop up Q2 earnings

VCI

German chemical industry association extends Steilemann's term of office / Will BASF chief follow next year?

BASF

Q1 earnings fall but beat market consensus / Muted recovery but no fundamental turnaround yet, outgoing CEO says

BASF

Martin Brudermüller: “We have a real earnings problem at the Ludwigshafen site” / Outgoing CEO defends activities in China

GREINER

From chemical behemoth to family business: Former BASF manager Saori Dubourg to become CEO

BASF

Markus Kamieth new CEO from 25 April / Brudermülller heads to Mercedes / Maas-Brunner steps down

BASF

Maas-Brunner tapped as CTO / Heinz succeeds Smith in management of plastics-related areas

BASF

Managing board cut to six members / Sanjeev Gandhi resigns / Responsibilities redistributed / Ongoing corporate reorganisation

BASF

Inauguration of antioxidants production plant in China

BASF

Managing board tasks to be reallocated January 2019

BASF

German chemicals giant announces personnel reshuffle / New heads for Petrochemicals and Dispersions & Pigments divisions

PEOPLE

Raimar Jahn to head BASF's PU division / Coatings unit to fall under Markus Kamieth