LAUDA invests in start-up for sustainable magnetic cooling technology

Future invesment in cooling solutions with-out refrigerants

05-Apr-2023 - Together with other investors, temperature control specialist LAUDA has invested in the start-up MAGNOTHERM. With this round of financing, concluding at over 5 million EUR, the multiple award-winning start-up plans to start serial production of its first sustainable refrigerator. LAUDA has been ...

Along the motorway at 150 degrees below freezing

09-Nov-2009 - It often used to be the case that a breakdown in the storage or transportation of laboratory samples would lead to the loss of months or years of research work. More and more companies from the medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries are therefore entrusting their valuable ...

Magnetic technology revolutionizes refrigeration

BASF researchers cooperate with Delta Electronics, Inc.

27-Aug-2009 - BASF and Delta Electronics, Inc. want to use environmentally friendly magnetocaloric technology to develop new cooling systems and explore the opportunities of magnetocaloric power generation. The cooperation partners are working on materials and prototypes for cooling systems and power ...

Cooperation between Degussa and BASF: Global Partnership in PUR Catalyst Triethylene Diamine (TEDA)

01-Aug-2005 - As the result of a strategic partnership between Degussa AG, Duesseldorf, Germany, and BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Degussa's Goldschmidt Polyurethane Additives Business Line in Essen, Germany, will take over the worldwide sales and technical service of triethylene diamine ...

Groundbreaking ceremony for a new Bayer polycarbonate plant at Caojing, Shanghai

27-Nov-2003 - With a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new polycarbonate plant at Caojing, Shanghai, Bayer expands its activities in China. The company is investing around 450 million US dollars in this world-scale production complex which will produce the high-tech plastic Makrolon®. This ...

BASF, Huntsman and Chinese partners to optimize capacities of polyurethanes complex in Shanghai

12-Nov-2003 - BASF, Huntsman and their Chinese partners - Shanghai Hua Yi (Group) Company, Sinopec Shanghai Gao Qiao Petrochemical Corporation and Shanghai Chloro-Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd. - have received approval from the Chinese authorities to optimize their planned integrated isocyanates complex at the ...

Bayer Polymers is investing in new production facilities for polyurethane raw materials in China

11-Nov-2003 - For Bayer Polymers expanding its site in Caojing, China is top priority, as it is there that Bayer is constructing world-scale production facilities for, among other things, the polyurethane raw materials toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and diphenyl methyl diisocyanate (MDI). "Producing locally is the ...

Thermo Electron to Acquire Jouan SA

23-Sep-2003 - Thermo Electron Corporation announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire leading laboratory equipment provider Jouan SA for 110.9 million euros (currently USD $124 million) in cash plus the assumption of approximately 7.1 million euros (USD $8.0 million) of consolidated net debt. Jouan is ...

Asia's largest SM/PO facility launched by Shell and BASF

30-Sep-2002 - SINGAPORE, September 27, 2002 - Shell and BASF today celebrated the formal launch of Ellba Eastern in Singapore. Ellba Eastern is a 50-50 joint venture between Shell Seraya Pioneer (Pte) Ltd, a subsidiary of Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd. and BASF South East Asia Pte Ltd for the production of ...

BASF and Shell start up Ellba Eastern plant in Singapore

21-Jun-2002 - BASF South East Asia, a subsidiary of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, and Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd. have successfully completed building a world-scale SMPO plant at Seraya on Singapore's Jurong Island. The new plant, called Ellba Eastern, is a 50:50 joint venture between BASF and Shell. The ...