Acquisition adds smelting capability to serve spent automotive catalyst customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa Complements ECMS recycling operations and global precious metal services Broadens range of materials that can be processed by ECMS Closing of transaction expected in early first quarter 2024 ISELIN, N.J., Dec. 11, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – BASF Environmental Catalyst and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean battery maker SK On Co. said Wednesday it has partnered with German battery materials firm BASF SE to explore possible business opportunities in the global lithium-ion battery markets. SK On and BASF reached an agreement to collaborate in exploring business opportunities in cathode active materials (CAM) production, [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK E&S Co., an energy unit of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, said Tuesday it will supply electricity generated from renewable energy to German chemical giant BASF S.E. The two parties signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) in Seoul on April 18. As per the terms of the agreement, [...]
MACON, Ga., Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — KaMin LLC, a global performance minerals company owned by IMin Partners, and BASF announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement in which KaMin will acquire the BASF kaolin minerals business. Currently, the kaolin minerals business is part of BASF’s Performance Chemicals division. The transaction includes [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — German chemical giant BASF S.E. said Tuesday it opened a new research and development (R&D) center in South Korea for engineering plastics that are widely used in automotive and consumer electronics, as part of an expansion in the Asian market. The Engineering Plastics Innovation Center Korea, or EPIC Korea, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — BASF, the world’s leading chemicals company, has expanded its production facilities in South Korea to meet growing demand in the domestic and Asian markets, the company said Monday. The German chemicals company has just started operation of a new electronic materials plant in Yeosu, 455 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chemicals maker SKC Inc. and Germany-based chemical firm BASF are close to clinching a deal later this year to build a hydrogen peroxide plant in the southern industrial city of Ulsan, company officials said Thursday. SKC, a chemical unit under SK Group, has sought to use BASF’s [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The BASF global research and development (R&D) center for electronic materials opens at the Natural Sciences Campus of Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. BASF is the world’s leading chemical company in Germany, founded in Ludwigshafen located near Heidelberg in 1865. For the first time in the world, the [...]