BASF Expands in Asia-Pacific with New Facilities and Solutions
SHANGHAI – BASF is enhancing its regional innovation capabilities with new facilities at the Innovation Campus Shanghai, to further strengthen collaboration with the automotive industry and to offer new process catalysts to the chemical industry. With an investment of approximately €34 million, the new 5,000-square-meter facilities include the Automotive Application Center and the Process Catalysis Research & Development (R&D) Center.
At an inauguration ceremony, the company also presented a range of locally developed innovations that support customers in industries like automotive, construction and consumer goods, and that address important market trends to reduce emissions, increase energy efficiency and enhance performance. BASF launched an innovative waterborne coating system on the same occasion.