BASF Coatings Plant Wins 'Performance Track' Designation from EPA
BELVIDERE, NJ -- BASF Corp.'s automotive coatings manufacturing plant in Belvidere, NJ, has been accepted into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Performance Track, a program that is designed to motivate and reward top environmental performance. The Belvidere plant manufactures automotive OEM and refinish coatings.
The plant is one of 253 facilities nationwide participating in Performance Track, which the EPA launched in mid-2000, and is the first BASF site to be accepted into the program. The program is described as a "public/private partnership" that encourages environmental excellence, involves communities in environmental protection, and focuses on measurable results. "Performance Track members demonstrate in their daily business operations that economic prosperity and environmental protection can go hand in hand," said EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman.