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Chemicals

Sales (million €)

Sales in the Chemicals segment (bar chart)

In 2007, the Chemicals segment consisted of the Inorganics, Catalysts, Petrochemicals and Intermediates divisions. We produce a broad range of basic chemicals and higher value products at our integrated production facilities – the Verbund – in Europe, Asia and North America.

Production Capacities of Significant Products

 

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Verbund Sites

 

 

Product

Europe

North America

Asia

Other Sites

Annual Capacity (metric tons)

1

Contains the full capacity of a joint venture company for the production of 935,000 metric tons of ethylene; 830,000 metric tons of propylene and 110,000 metric tons of benzene (including metathesis) in Port Arthur, Texas, in which BASF has a 60% share.

2

Contains the full capacity of a joint venture company for the production of 410,000 metric tons of butadiene in Port Arthur, Texas, in which BASF has a 22.82% share and which is proportionally consolidated in the Group Consolidated Financial Statements.

3

Contains the full capacity of a joint venture company for the production of 250,000 metric tons of oxo C4 alcohols; 40,000 metric tons of phthalic anhydride; 100,000 metric tons of plasticizer; 100,000 metric tons of butanediol equivalents and 160,000 metric tons of acrylic monomers in Kuantan, Malaysia, in which BASF has a 60% share.

4

Contains the full capacity of a joint venture company for the production of 350,000 metric tons of propylene in Tarragona, Spain, in which BASF has a 51% share.

5

Contains the full capacity of a joint venture company for the production of 25,000 metric tons of butanediol equivalents in Chiba, Japan, in which BASF has a 67% share.

6

Contains the full capacity of the joint venture company for the production of 35,000 metric tons of neopentylglycol in Jilin, China, in which BASF has a 60% share.

7

Contains the full capacity of a joint venture company for the production of 600,000 metric tons of ethylene; 300,000 metric tons of propylene; 130,000 metric tons of benzene; 250,000 metric tons of ethylene oxide; 350,000 metric tons of ethylene glycol; 250,000 metric tons of oxo-C4 alcohols; 36,000 metric tons of alkylamines;
50,000 metric tons of formic acid; 39,000 metric tons of propionic acid and 160,000 metric tons of acrylic monomers in Nanjing, China, in which BASF has a 50% share and is proportionally consolidated.

8

Contains a small capacity expansion (10,000 metric tons) of the plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Alkylamines

X

 

X

X

221,0007

Formic and propionic acid

X

 

X

 

255,000
119,0007

Ammonia

X

 

 

 

1,525,000

Benzene

X

 

X

X

790,0001,7

Butadiene

X

 

 

X

515,0002

Butanediol equivalents

X

X

X

X

585,0003,5

Chlorine

X

 

 

 

385,000

Ethanolamines and derivatives

X

 

 

 

270,000

Ethylene

X

 

X

X

2,955,0001,7

Ethylene oxide

X

X

X

 

1,175,0007

Formaldehyde condensation products

X

 

 

 

750,000

Neopentylglycol

X

X

 

X

165,0006,8

Oxo C4 alcohols
(calculated as butyraldehyde)

X

X

X

X

1,360,0003,7

Polytetrahydrofuran

X

X

X

X

185,000

Propylene

X

 

X

X

2,280,0001,4,7

Plasticizers

X

 

X

X

620,0003

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