BASF inaugurated an engineering plastics compounding plant in Shanghai, China. The new facility came on stream and is a world-scale plant with an annual capacity of 45,000 metric tons. It is one of the most modern compounding plants in the world today, with the highest environmental standards and the most efficient production capabilities available.
Alongside this new plant in Shanghai; BASF has similar compounding facilities in Malaysia and Korea, which are part of BASF's global network of engineering plastics and compounding plants. This network covers other countries in Europe, North and Central America. With the new plant, BASF's total compounding capacity in Asia exceeds 100,000 metric tons per annum.
BASF has also set up a Technical Center for engineering plastics in Shanghai, where its engineers design and optimize new engineering plastic parts in close cooperation with customers. The development support ranges from computer aided engineering in the initial design phase to component tests in the trial and launch phase. Further services comprise a state-of-the-art molding laboratory offering processing seminars to customers. This Technical Center in Shanghai is part of BASF's global and Asian network for engineering plastics - other such centers operate in Greater Nagoya in Japan and Seoul in South Korea.
Source: BASF
21-May-07 
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