Comment Business & Economics
BASF increasing production capacity for copper and copper-chrome catalysts
By Gerald Ondrey |
BASF’s Catalyst Div. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has announced a new round of capital investment projects to increase its production capacity and further enhance its global manufacturing operations for copper and copper-chrome catalysts. These investments are aimed at improving catalyst-manufacturing efficiency to meet increased global demand. They follow an earlier round of process improvement and capacity enhancement projects for the copper-chrome product line that were completed earlier this year.
“The market response to our high-performance copper-chrome catalysts remains outstanding,” says Michael Baier, BASF vice president, Chemical Market Catalysts. “As a result, we are investing to further enhance our manufacturing capacity and production efficiency for these products globally. These investments demonstrate our commitment to meeting our customers’ needs for copper-chrome catalysts over the long term, while also creating a state-of-the-art manufacturing environment for these important products.”
BASF produces a wide variety of base-metal catalysts, which are primarily used in petrochemical and oleochemical processing. Typical catalyst applications include guard beds; hydrogenation processes,…
Related Content The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) rose 0.8% in January following a 1.4% gain in December and a…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 1.2% in January, accelerating…
The following is a list of recently published books that may be relevant for professionals in the chemical process industries…
Plant Watch Austria’s largest green-hydrogen plant being constructed at OMV refinery February 16, 2021 — OMV AG (Vienna, Austria; www.omv.com)…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose…
Breakthrough Technologies
Chemical Engineering publishes FREE eletters that bring our original content to our readers
in an easily accessible email format about once a week.
Subscribe Now
Subscribe Now
Job Listings