“BASF is committed to working with customers and institutions in Asia Pacific to develop innovations that address sustainability challenges in the region,” says Dr. Karl-Rudolf Kurtz, Senior Vice President, Research Representative Asia Pacific, BASF, who will participate in the opening forum of the fair. “By 2020, BASF plans to conduct around 25% of its global R&D in Asia Pacific and one fourth of our global R&D employees should then be working in Research and Development in Asia Pacific."

 

Waste management

 

Composting helps to improve soil quality, treat loss of arable land and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The compostable and biodegradable bags made of BASF’s certified ecovio® biopolymers enable source-separated organic waste to be sent directly to the industrial composting site for conversion into compost without separating the bags from the waste. Shanghai is formally implementing new household garbage reduction measures on May 1, 2014. Under the new measures, garbage will be divided into four categories: recyclable materials, hazardous waste, wet waste and dry waste. By using of waste bags made of ecovio can further increase the efficiency of organic waste collection and recycle.

 

Water treatment

 

High cationic polyacrylamides flocculent: Zetag® produced by BASF’s Nanjing site can dewater sludge effectively. For example, BASF has strategic cooperation agreement with Beijing Drainage Group to provide solutions for 98% of Beijing’s sanitary sewage.

 

Inge, part of BASF, is one of the world's leading providers of ultrafiltration technology, a membrane process used to treat drinking water, process water, wastewater and sea water. Inge has contributed to numerous projects in China, including water treatment at chemical parks, drinking water at airports and sea water treatment.

 

Mobile emissions control

 

As the global leader in mobile emissions catalysts, BASF will also showcase its expertise in innovative emissions control solutions on meeting increasingly stringent emissions requirements for light and heavy duty vehicles, such as  FWC™ four-way conversion catalyst for gasoline engines that combines the functionality of a TWC  catalyst with a filter to remove all four pollutants, - carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM), and BASF’s patented SCRoFTM technology that combines SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) with a diesel particulate filter to control NOx and PM from diesel engines on a single substrate, as well as PremAir® direct ozone reduction catalysts, which is the first commercial product that destroys harmful ground-level ozone already in the air and converts it into oxygen.

 

Building energy efficiency

 

BASF will also showcase its comprehensive solutions for building energy efficiency. For example, the first co-extruded PVC-PBT window profile made with low melting point PBT Ultradur® co-developed with Shide Group is to meet the market need for an energy efficient alternative and an efficient optimized one-step production process.  This window profile is also a showcase of innovation developed in Asia for Asia and global markets. In fact, it was the first patent application for engineering plastics 5 months after the opening of the Innovation Campus.