Products and Investments

Products, customers and applications

Division

Products

Customer industries and applications

Petrochemicals

Ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, alcohols, solvents, plasticizers, alkylene oxides, glycols, acrylic monomers, styrene and polystyrene, styrenic foams, superabsorbents

Use in the BASF Verbund

Chemical and plastics industry, construction, detergent, hygiene, automotive, packaging and textile industries; production of paints, coatings, cosmetics, oilfield and paper chemicals

Intermediates

Basic products: butanediol and derivatives, alkylamines and alkanolamines, neopentyl glycol, formic and propionic acid

Specialties: specialty amines such as tertiary butylamine and polyetheramine, gas treatment chemicals, vinyl monomers, acid chlorides, chloroformates, chiral intermediates

Use in the BASF Verbund

Chemical, plastics, coatings, construction, automotive, textile, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries Production of detergents and cleaners as well as crop protection products and textile fibers

Material investments

Location

Project

Additional annual capacity through expansion (metric tons)

Total annual capacity (metric tons)

Startup

a

Operated by a joint venture with Sinopec

Antwerp, Belgium

Expansion: ethylene oxide plant

n/a

n/a

2022

Feedstock flexibilization of steam cracker

1,080,000

2019

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Replacement: acetylene plant

15,000

90,000

2019

Nanjing, China

Construction: specialty amines plant

21,000

n/a

2019

Expansion: propionic acid planta

30,000

69,000

2019

Expansion: neopentyl glycol planta

40,000

80,000

2020

Expansion: tertiary butylamine plant

30% increase

2022

Production capacities of significant productsa

 

Sites

 

Product

Europe

North America

Asia Pacific

South America, Africa, Middle East

Annual capacity (metric tons)

a

All capacities are included at 100%, including plants belonging to joint operations and joint ventures.

Acrylic acid

1,510,000

Alkylamines

 

250,000

Formic acid

 

305,000

Benzene

 

910,000

Butadiene

 

680,000

Butanediol equivalents

 

670,000

Ethanolamines and derivatives

 

 

430,000

Ethylene

 

3,480,000

Ethylene oxide

 

1,445,000

Neopentyl glycol

 

205,000

Oxo-C4 alcohols (calculated as butyraldehyde)

 

1,625,000

PolyTHF®

 

350,000

Propionic acid

 

 

180,000

Propylene

 

2,610,000

Styropor®/Neopor®

 

 

545,000

Superabsorbents

590,000

Plasticizers

 

 

595,000