BASF styrenics restructuring makes progress
BASF sells its polystyrene business in Brazil
BASF is progressing with steps to restructure its styrenics business and has made another divestiture in its styrene value chain. BASF has signed an agreement to sell its Brazilian polystyrene business, including a production plant, to the petrochemical company Companhia Brasileira de Estireno (CBE), a Unigel subsidiary. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price or further financial details.
“Given the current economic environment, we are taking steps to improve the profitability of our core styrenics business and strengthen our market position. This was also the reason for the recent closure of the 80,000 metric tons per year polystyrene plant in Ludwigshafen and the sale of our 320,000 metric tons per year styrene monomer site in Korea that we announced at the beginning of August,” explained Joachim Streu, head of BASF’s styrenics business.
These measures do not alter the plans to position the styrenics business outside of the BASF Group in the long term.
Henri Slezynger, Chairman of Unigel, has underlined that “the integration strategy with Unigel´s two styrene monomer plants totaling 280,000 metric tons will strengthen one of the group’s core business in petrochemicals.”
The polystyrene plant in São José dos Campos, Brazil, has a capacity of 190,000 metric tons of polystyrene per year. All employees from production, marketing and sales will transfer to the buyer. BASF will continue to market acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), Styrolux® and Styroflex® (SBS), as well as other styrenics copolymers in Brazil. The remaining South American market will be supplied with these products and with polystyrene from BASF sites in Antwerp, Belgium, and Altamira, Mexico.
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