BASF is strengthening its styrene value chain at its Ludwigshafen site by expanding the production capacity of Neopor® by 50,000 metric tons per year. This increase is aimed at meeting the growing market demand for the grey insulation material. The start-up of the new production facilities is scheduled for early 2027. Neopor® is a graphite-containing, expandable polystyrene (EPS) granulate developed […]

BASF has received funding approval from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action for the construction of the world’s most powerful industrial heat pump. In the coming months, the company will therefore be able to start the preparatory construction work for the project at its Ludwigshafen site. The project is intended to make an important contribution to […]

Schneider Electric, leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, and Saint-Gobain, leader in light and sustainable construction, have joined forces to deploy the first-of-its kind software-defined automation system for glass production. Unveiled at Glasstec 2024, the world’s leading trade fair for the glass industry, the project addresses the urgent need for enhanced reliability in the critical lehr […]

In trend research released last fall, BASF stated that the traditional automotive color wheel was going through a transformation. The recently released 2023 BASF Color Report for Automotive OEM Coatings provides hard data to back up that trend. Achromatic colors, which have always formed the foundation of automotive color, are experiencing a significant shift. While white continues to hold its […]

Regency Front, one of the largest manufacturers of MDF fronts, has invested 6 million euros in a new line dedicated to painted doors, with last generation technology and equipment. Production capacity reaches 700 m2/exchange and also integrates, at the same time, the largest lacquer line in Romania and fully automated edge sanding or primer application machines. The final products are […]

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Designers for BASF’s Coatings division have delved into new color spaces for the 2021-2022 Automotive Color Trends collection. Borrowing a phenomenon from quantum mechanics, this year’s collection is called SUPERPOSITION, which is a state where the limitation of binary systems is overcome. In other words, things aren’t just black or white, heads or tails, one or zero. The world has […]

Three Fujitsu manufacturing solutions set to transform, digitally accelerate and disrupt Manufacturers continue to face ongoing pressure to find new process efficiencies to keep machinery operating at optimal capacity and to tackle the complexity of global supply chains. But today, advanced manufacturing technologies are providing solutions that go well beyond incremental change – for example, the emergence of new product […]

Lactalis Romania, the leader of the dairy market with Albalact, Covalact and Dorna Lactate brands, has chosen Vodafone Business Intelligence solution for planning, optimizing and monitoring the daily routes of product delivery to the points of sale. The solution enables Lactalis Logistic – the logistic division of Lactalis Romania – to increase the performance and efficiency of the car fleet, […]

The 4JET Group (Alsdorf, Germany) has introduced new versions of its PEARL laser glass cutting systems and installed several machines with international customers since beginning of the year. The innovations go beyond the current typical scope of laser glass cutting which is mostly used in the manufacturing of small to medium sized display cover glasses as used in consumer and […]

BASF is now expanding its polyphthalamide (PPA) portfolio by a new Ultramid® Advanced N grade that is especially suited for connectors post-processed with surface mount technology (SMT). Ultramid® Advanced N2U40G7 shows the ideal balance of high flowability, toughness and flame retardancy. It thus enables miniaturization with thin-wall structures at high power and data throughput in electronic applications. Due to its […]