Company Updates

BASF employees from the company's Wyandotte site were among the participants in a March 14 Women in Defense Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math panel discussion at the Michigan Science Center in Detroit. The panel featured professional women in the STEAM fields, including guest speaker retired Army Col. Patricia Sellars.

Students in teacher Greg Brovont's sixth- to eighth-grade STEM classrooms at Wilson Middle School are beneficiaries of a recent donation from BASF Corp. The company contributed $9,000 to the Wyandotte Public School system to support the purchase of classroom materials for science, technology, engineering and math programs for students in grades K-12.

McKenna Nielsen, of Audubon, Iowa, received the 2018-19 Soy Scholarship award, sponsored by BASF and the American Soybean Association. The scholarship is a $5,000 award presented to an exceptional high school senior who excels in both academics and in leadership roles, and plans to pursue a degree in an agriculture-related field at an accredited college or university.

FLORHAM PARK, NJ, and ANN ARBOR, MI, February 22, 2018 - BASF Corporation is introducing Hepaxa™, a product that can help tens of millions of patients manage Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), one of the most common forms of chronic liver disease.

ROSELLE, NJ - Students at Roselle's Washington Elementary School learned how everyday household objects can be transformed into scientific wonders when scientists from BASF's New Jersey-based world headquarters conducted a science workshop at the school on Friday.

BASF will spend $150 million to expand its chemical complex in Geismar in what the company said is the first step in an effort to double production of a product used to make construction, insulation, automotive and packaging goods. The methylene diphenyl diisocyanate expansion will create 15 new direct jobs, with an average annual salary of more than $86,600, plus benefits.

Germany's BASF will build a new plant for chemicals used in rigid insulation foams, part of a plan to double output capacity in North America over the medium term amid strong demand.

FLORHAM PARK, NJ, and NEW YORK, NY, January 18, 2018 - BASF today affirmed its ongoing commitment to safe chemical industry practices and education by funding two key priorities of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) "Doing a World of Good" campaign.