After K-Resin Shutdown, BASF Plans SBC Expansions.Since late March, Phillips Chemical Co.'s K-Resin styrene-butadiene copolymer copolymer: see polymer. plant in Houston has been shut down, following an explosion and fire that killed one person and injured 71. The 370-million-lb/yr facility was also shut down by a fire last June. To alleviate the resulting supply crunch for K-Resin, BASF AG BASF AG German chemical and plastics manufacturing company. Founded in 1865, BASF (the full German name means “Baden Aniline and Soda Factory”) was part of the chemical cartel IG Farben from 1925 until 1945, when the latter was dissolved by the Allies. in Germany will significantly increase production capacity of its Styrolux SEC packaging resin. In Germany and Belgium, BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida plans to add more than 44 million lb/yr of production, almost a 60% increase, by mid-2001. In addition, BASF plans its first North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. production with a 100-million-lb plant in Altamira, Mexico, by the start of 2003. |
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