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BASF plant in Ludwigshafen, 1865. BASF is an acronym for Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (German for 'Baden Aniline and Soda Factory'). It was founded by Friedrich Engelhorn on 6 April 1865 in Mannheim, in the German-speaking state of Baden.
The company was founded in 1998 and employs approximately 700 people at 6 different locations worldwide. [1] The headquarters of BASF Plant Science is located in Research Triangle Park (North Carolina, US) and has research sites in the US, Canada, and Europe. BASF Plant Science mainly develops genetically modified seeds at these locations. [1]
An Engelhard silver bar An Engelhard poured 2 oz 99.99% pure gold bar. Engelhard Corporation was an American Fortune 500 company headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, United States.
November 30, 2011: BASF and INEOS sign a letter of intent for a joint venture combining their key styrenics assets. June 30, 2014: Joint statement that INEOS takes over the 50% stake of BASF SE for a purchase price of €1.1bn. [6] [7] November 17, 2014: Styrolution becomes wholly owned by INEOS.
Using proprietary and patented genomic technologies, BASF extracts microbial DNA directly from collected samples to avoid the slow and often impossible task of growing microbes in the laboratory. [5] BASF then mines its collection of microbial genes , numbering in the billions, using high-throughput screening technologies designed to identify ...
Wintershall Holding GmbH, based in Kassel, was Germany's largest crude oil and natural gas producer. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF.The company was active in oil and gas exploration and production with operations in Europe, North Africa, South America as well as Russia and the Middle East region.
I. G. Farbenindustrie AG ("dye industry syndicate"), commonly known as IG Farben, was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate.It was formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies: Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron [], Hoechst, and Weiler-ter-Meer. [2]
It took some years to come back on the international stage as Beiersdorf had to rebuy the trademark rights. But at the end of the 1990s, 70 percent of the company's sales revenue was being generated outside Germany. Europe is the key market with 58 locations but the company keeps building its presence in markets around the world. [6]