BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site to replace the existing one. With 3 petaflops of computing power, the new supercomputer is considerably more powerful than its 1.75 petaflop predecessor.

BASF CEO Martin Brudermuller has been named #1 in the 2022 ICIS Top 40 Power Players, a global ranking of the leading CEOs and senior executives making the greatest positive impact on their companies and the chemicals industry.

BASF today inaugurated a new manufacturing plant housing a state-of-the-art facility for producing precious metals-based salts and solutions used in industrial applications. The salts and solutions produced at the 2,200-square meter plant are primarily used to support BASF’s mobile emissions catalysts manufacturing operation in Shanghai. This operation uses the products in its formulations for automotive catalytic converters, which are the sing...

BASF today announced that it has acquired Ovonic Battery Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices Inc.

BASF today announced that it has invested $50 million to acquire an equity ownership position in privately held Sion Power, the global leader in the development of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, based in Tucson, Arizona.