To be innovative, to create something new. We are all for it, especially in these times. Recently we put a new plant for the production of cyclododecanone (CDon) and cyclopentanone (CPon) into operation at our integrated site in Ludwigshafen. 
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In the presence of Kurt Beck, the premier of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, BASF started up a new plant complex for the production of the chemical intermediates cyclopentanone (CPon) and cyclododecanone (CDon) at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site at the end of November, after two years of construction.
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The cooperation between BASF and Fabbrica Adesivi Resine S.p.a. (F.A.R.) is bearing fruit. The two companies managed to optimize the process in the polyalcohol facility together in a way that allows the F.A.R. plant in Italy to manufacture a purer grade of trimethylolpropane (TMP) than in the past.
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Ludwigshafen is about 1,300 kilometers away from Mourenx in the southwest of France. That’s the location of a BASF customer’s production site.
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In an expert paper recently published in "Chemistry Today", Dr. Andrea Simon and Dr. Ulrich Karl, both New Business Development, Intermediates division, provide an overview of BASF's chiral products and how to use them in the production of medical drugs.
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Analysis proves: formic acid salts are cost-efficient and easy on the environment
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Expert community helps customers with process optimization.
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Broad variety of uses for the new products.
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Innovative solution: liquid N-Vinyl caprolactam (NVC).
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Resistance of polyurea coatings again enhanced.
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