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Brassica and Leafy Salad Conference 2025
Nunhem, The Netherlands, April 11, 2024 - Today BASF | Nunhems has officially opened its Tomato Experience Center in Kwintsheul, near The Hague. The greenhouse features over 150 ToBRFV- resistant varieties. It is complemented by modern meeting facilities to showcase the company’s ToBRFV-resistant tomato varieties and exchange with customers on their needs, BASF’s innovations and trends in tomato breeding.
Extremely high production in data-driven cucumber greenhouse BASF 's Gravenzande
Nunhem, 26 September 2022 - On 16 November 2021, the first high-wire cucumber crop was planted in the data-driven greenhouse of BASF's vegetable seed business in 's Gravenzande. The greenhouse was equipped with about 340 umol LED lights from Signify. The second and third crops were planted on 2 March 2022 and 15 June 2022, respectively.
New race Peronospora Effusa (PE: 20) Nominated
Downy mildew, also known as Peronospora effusa, stands as a prevalent fungal infection for spinach growers.
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BASF and research partners collaborate to optimize mechanical recycling of plastics
BASF has teamed up with Endress+Hauser and TechnoCompound as well as the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved. With funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the SpecReK project aims to reliably and precisely identify the composition of plastic waste during the recycling process and thus improve the quality of recycled plastics. This will be achieved by combining state-of-the-art measuring techniques with artificial intelligence (AI).
BASF inaugurates new Catalyst Development and Solids Processing Center in Ludwigshafen
BASF officially opened its new Catalyst Development and Solids Processing Center in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on December 12, 2024. This research facility will serve as a hub for pilot-scale synthesis of chemical catalysts, enabling BASF to offer its global customers faster access to innovative technologies. This pilot plant will also be of central importance for the development of new solids processing technologies.
EBITDA before special items increased compared with Q3 2023 due to considerably higher earnings of core businesses
Thanks to significantly higher contributions from the core businesses, BASF Group’s EBITDA before special items (income from operations before depreciation, amortization and special items) increased in the third quarter by €77 million to €1.6 billion. “The positive earnings momentum in our core businesses was already visible in the first half of 2024 and continued in the third quarter, driven by higher volumes and margins,” said Dr. Markus Kamieth, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE. This increase was partially offset by a considerable earnings decline in the standalone businesses as well as in Other.