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BASF’s Global Performance Lab in Mumbai Photo: BASF
Trade News | August 18, 2026

BASF Opens Global Diaper and Superabsorbents Performance Lab in Mumbai to Strengthen Customer-centric Innovation in Hygiene Solutions

BASF has officially inaugurated its new Performance Lab for diapers and superabsorbents (SAP) in Mumbai on August 18, 2026, which will provide technical and application services to superabsorbent customers globally. The new lab of BASF’s Hygiene Solutions business has been established in less than a year and is part of BASF’s Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Mumbai, BASF’s second largest R&D site in Asia Pacific established in 2017 under BASF Chemicals India Private Limited.
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Trade News | July 22, 2026

Pirelli, Pyrum, Synthos and BASF Partner to transform end‑of‑life and scrap tyres into recycled materials for new products

Pirelli, Pyrum, Synthos and BASF are jointly advancing a tyre-to-tyre circular economy initiative in Europe, driving the development of an industrial ecosystem designed to increase the use of recycled materials derived from end-of-life and scrap tyres.
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Trade News | December 11, 2025

Turning diaper waste into new value: BASF, Essity and TU Wien pioneer circular solutions
 

BASF, one of the world’s leading chemical companies and manufacturer of superabsorbent polymers (SAP), and Essity, a global leading hygiene and health company, joined forces together with the Technical University of Wien to revolutionize recycling of absorbent hygiene products (AHP).
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Climate protection is a central component of the BASF strategy. For many years, the company has been continuously reducing its CO2 emissions. For further significant reduction, innovative processes such as methane pyrolysis are developed as part of our Carbon Management R&D Program. In the project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), BASF researchers are working on a new reactor concept in which hydrogen can be produced without CO2 emissions. The first milestone has now been reached. Our test facility at the Verbund site in Ludwigshafen (Germany) has started in experimental mode.
Trade News | November 17, 2025

BASF and ExxonMobil Join Forces to Advance Low- Emission Hydrogen Through Methane Pyrolysis Technology

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, and HOUSTON, USA – November 17, 2025 – BASF and ExxonMobil have formed a strategic collaboration to advance methane pyrolysis technology, a next step toward delivering efficient, cost-competitive low-emission hydrogen solutions for industrial use. The companies have signed a joint development agreement to co-develop methane pyrolysis technology, including plans to construct a demonstration plant aimed at commercial readiness.
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Fossil resources substituted by pyrolysis oil from chemical recycling in the production process of Styropor® Ccycled® Photo: BASF
Trade News | October 6, 2025

Pescafácil starts transporting fish and seafood in Knauf Industries’ CELOOPS® boxes produced with Ccycled® EPS from BASF

Sea products supplier Pescafácil, specialized in seafood, has started using fish boxes made of Knauf Industries’ CELOOPS® material, which is produced using expandable polystyrene (EPS) granules Styropor® Ccycled® from BASF.
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