Shanghai expansion unveiled

BASF has inaugurated the expansion of its Innovation Campus Shanghai. Originally opened in 2012 and twice updated through total investments of €280 million, the campus is BASF’s largest R&D site in Asia. The two new R&D buildings will house laboratories for:

* Process engineering, focusing on the formation and handling of solids and polymer recycling technologies

* Dispersions & resins, include robotic automation to test scrub resistance and tensile strength, and characterise coating film appearance

* Metal surface & industrial cleaning processes

* Performance materials, for characteristics such as flame retardancy, electrical insulation and durability, processibility and aesthetic versatility

* The ‘Creator’s Lab’, a model-making workshop where researchers can work on proof-of-concept models, mock-ups and rapid prototypes in performance materials