BASF opens new application centre for plastic additives

12/06/2018
Textile chemicals manufacturer BASF has inaugurated a new European application centre for plastic additives in Kaisten, Switzerland.

The new facility, part of an existing BASF production site, includes a compounding extruder, stretch film and tape lines as well as an injection moulding unit capable, BASF has said, of simulating polymer production and processing technology.

BASF has insisted that the “intelligent process automation and expertise” that the new application centre offers will increase the quality of plastics it can produce.