The search for the final missing person following the explosion at BASF’s plant this week has come to an end after divers found a body in the nearby harbour.
Two workers have been killed, one person is still missing and eight have been seriously injured in the explosion at a BASF plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany yesterday.
Companies in Iran and Iraq are keen to work with BASF, with a lot of delegates from the countries visiting the German firm’s stand at Gulfood Manufacturing.
Ingredients and chemicals giant BASF has announced it will pull the plug on its European operations in genetically modified plant development due to a lack of acceptance in the market.
BASF Crop Protection is developing a new set of criteria and standards for sustainable fruit and veg production for supermarket chain Rewe, which are intended to give sustainability assurances throughout the food chain, right through to consumers.
German chemical giant BASF is set to start field testing of its
blight-resistant GM potatoes in Britain next year, a move that
could open the way to more GM crop tests in the traditionally
anti-GM country.
BASF's acquisition of CropDesign, a Belgian biotech company, will
help establish the German chemical giant as a leader in the
development of important crop traits in corn, soy bean and rape
seed.
BASF's fine chemicals division is bolstered by higher sales volume
of aroma chemicals and vitamins A and E for animal nutrition, but
the pressure over vitamin C and lysine has not abated, dragging
down the division's profitability.
BASF's plans to invest $320 million over the next three years in
the development of what it calls 'next generation' GM crops
underlines where food technology is headed.
Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda will sell off its stakes in
five non-core joint ventures, including the vitamins business that
it operates with Germany's BASF, according to reports.
German chemicals company BASF is to participate in a new project
designed to trace Norwegian farmed salmon throughout the entire
production chain as part of a qualitative move to boost sales
through improving consumer confidence.
Fortitech, a US supplier of nutrient systems, announced yesterday
that the chemical group BASF has completed the transfer of its
human nutrition premix business and customers in the Asia Pacific
region to Fortitech.
BASF is to lodge an appeal against the fine imposed by the European
Commission on November 21, 2001 with the responsible European Court
of First Instance in Luxembourg.
BASF, the German chemicals giant, announced recently that it will
build newvitamins capacity in Europe and expand its plants,
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