“Customer focus” is the keyword that best captures the cooperation between BASF and its customer Oemeta, on of the world’s leading suppliers of industrial lubricants. A clear focus on the needs of its customers is the foundation on which Oemeta Chemische Werke GmbH has built its success.
Twenty-five years ago, in September 1983, BASF brought its first plant for the production of polytetrahydrofuran on line at its “Verbund” (integrated production) site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The product is now marketed under the name PolyTHF® throughout the world.
Epoxy resins are set for growth around the world. And epoxy resin manufacturer LEUNA-Harze in the Halle-Leipzig chemical triangle in the center of Germany is growing just as fast. For the Leuna company, the key to success is its combination of experience, customer focus and innovativeness. Supplying high-grade intermediates and expertise, BASF has for years contributed to this success. Now the two companies have signed a cooperation agreement. Read a story about success based on excellent cooperation.
BASF chemist Walter Reppe makes history: he is the first ever to produce vinylether from acetylene and alcohols, establishing the so-called Reppe chemistry. Learn more about the famous chemist, and how his inventions caused BASF’s operations to change significantly.
They are putting more fun in creeping and crawling: the Italian Albis company continually improves the properties of specialty nonwovens for diapers, relying for five years already on its cooperation with BASF. Read more about this product innovation, which helps not only toddlers to feel well.
An efficient partnership is based on reliability and trust. BASF and its Spanish customer Campi y Jové, one of Spain’s major chemical raw materials distributors, have proved this rule for many years. Find out what “standingy by each other” really means.
For more than 30 years, Collak, S.A., a customer in Spain, has been purchasing the intermediate tetrahydrofuran (THF) exclusively from BASF. Take a look at the history of a successful customer relationship.
Day after day, “innovation scout” Xavier Sava scans the whole world in search of new applications for one of BASF’s classic products: formic acid. Dip into the world of innovations in which no two days are alike.
An innovative process for manufacturing formic acid catapulted BASF to the position of world leader in the nineteen-eighties. Learn here in what applications BASF’s customers use this fascinating acid, and what ants have to do with it.
Formic acid is the stuff that innovations are made of, be it in preserving feedstuffs, in removing rust or in disinfecting kegs and barrels in breweries. - Have a look at the exciting variety of applications for this BASF classic.
For better freshness and health: propionic acid. Read about the effects of the environmentally benign all-round product in protecting feed grain from molding, how it acts against pests, and how you can even use it to make vitamin E.
BASF’s Austrian customer Getzner provides special plastics that make trams and trains travel silently and keep vibrations away from opera houses and bridges. Read more about the interesting field of “damping,” and about BASF’s contribution.
When it comes to the intermediates for the high-performance fiber Twaron, the Dutch company Teijin Aramid has for many years relied on BASF as its source. Learn more about this fiber, which is light as a feather, yet hard as steel and super strong – and suitable for many different applications.
Energy-saving and environmentally friendly: BASF teaches the Algerian state-owned Sonatrach company to use aMDEA® gas-treatment technology, which allows for the profitable production of natural gas at Krechba. Read on to find out why this project is literally a “hot” affair.
