13 Current news of BASF
rss03-27-2012
Eurofins Scientific, Inc. announces the planned acquisition of the Quality Trait Analysis (QTA®) business of BASF Corporation. The acquisition will strengthen Eurofins’ growing presence in the US while adding a unique business possessing the most advanced expertise in on-site quality ...
Group of investors invests €1.2 million
09-07-2011
baseclick GmbH, a spin-off from BASF SE and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, raised an additional €1.2 million from private investors and BASF Venture Capital, the largest single investor, in the second round of financing. The start-up company baseclick GmbH, founded in the year 2008, ...
Professor Tobias Ritter of Harvard University receives BASF Catalysis Award 2011
07-26-2011
For his outstanding research contributions to catalytic processes in organic synthesis, Professor Dr. Tobias Ritter of Harvard University in Cambridge (USA) is receiving the BASF Catalysis Award 2011. The prize, worth €10,000, was presented by Dr. Friedrich Seitz, Head of BASF’s Technology ...
10-06-2010
For the first time, baseclick GmbH, a start-up company spun off from BASF SE and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, is making its newly developed process for labeling nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) available to customers. The company recently signed licensing agreements for this technology ...
BASF researchers cooperate with Delta Electronics, Inc.
08-27-2009
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 ...
BASF proposes construction of lithium-ion battery material production plant in Elyria, Ohio
06-05-2009
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and BASF have signed a world-wide licensing agreement to mass produce and market Argonne's patented composite cathode materials to manufacturers of advanced lithium-ion batteries. BASF will conduct further lithium-ion battery ...
Battery consortium headed by BASF receives € 21 million sponsorship from German Ministry of Education and Research
03-30-2009
Financial sponsorship running into millions has opened the way for the development of new generations of high energy batteries for use in plug-in hybrid automobiles and the electric powered vehicles of the future. Under the guidance of BASF Future Business GmbH, eighteen partners from ...
Radio frequency identification tags: the next generation
02-29-2008
PolyIC, BASF, Evonik Industries, Elantas Beck and Siemens have announced the launch of a new German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)-sponsored alliance project called MaDriX to advance the development of high-performance printable Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ...
Three-dimensional photonic crystals will revolutionize telecommunications
11-22-2007
Smaller, faster, more efficient: BASF research scientists are helping to revolutionize the future world of telecommunications - with the aid of three-dimensional photonic crystals. In a three-year project, BASF is researching into the development of these crystals together with partners such ...
Cooperation with University of Alabama awarded
09-15-2006
BASF and the University of Alabama (UoA) have been jointly awarded the renowned LES (Licensing Executive Society) 2006 Deals of Distinction Award for the Chemical, Energy and Materials Industry Sector. UoA has granted exclusive patent licenses to BASF for the use of ionic liquids in ...
