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BASF with solid start to the year: EBITDA before special items in first quarter of 2024 slightly above analysts’ consensus
25 Apr 2024
BASF got off to a solid start in 2024. The company today presented figures for the first quarter of 2024, on the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held in the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mann
BASF and University of California, Berkeley, celebrate their successful 10-year collaboration
23 Apr 2024
BASF and University of California (UC), Berkeley, USA, are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their collaboration known as the California Research Alliance (CARA). The multidisciplinary research c
BASF, SABIC, and Linde celebrate the start-up of the world's first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace
17 Apr 2024
April 17, 2024 – Today, BASF, SABIC, and Linde have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. Following three years of development,
Multi-Stakeholder Roundtable passes a Joint Action Plan to manage and protect water resources in Chile’s Salar de Atacama Basin
15 Apr 2024
With this Joint Action Plan, participants of a Multi-Stakeholder Roundtable (Mesa Multiactor) have agreed on a framework for natural resource management in the Salar de Atacama basin in Chile. The Act
BASF Group: Reporting on the 2023 business year
26 Feb 2024
In a market environment shaped by economic uncertainty, BASF Group reported sales of €68.9 billion in the 2023 business year, compared with €87.3 billion in the previous year. This sales development w
Advance Notice: Annual Press Conference
15 Feb 2024
On Friday, February 23, 2024, the Annual Press Conference of BASF SE will be held in Ludwigshafen, Germany. At 12.00 p.m. (CET) BASF’s Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors Dr. Martin Brudermül
BASF to divest shares in its two joint ventures in Korla, China
09 Feb 2024
In the fourth quarter of 2023, BASF started the process to divest its shares in the two joint venture companies BASF Markor Chemical Manufacturing (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. and Markor Meiou Chemical (Xinji
Leadership status for BASF renewed by CDP
07 Feb 2024
The non-profit organization CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has again ranked BASF as one of the world’s leading companies for its sustainable water management and forest and climate prote
BASF to research on alternatives to animal testing on behalf of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
01 Feb 2024
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has contracted a consortium that includes BASF to conduct scientific studies on the reliability and relevance of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) as alternatives
BASF SE and its partners publish year 7 impacts for ‘Pragati’, the world’s first sustainable castor bean program
30 Jan 2024
BASF, Arkema, Jayant Agro-Organics and implementation partner Solidaridad launched the project in May 2016. For year seven the members officially updated the impacts of the program so far.
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