MOSCOW (MRC) -- BASF has launched its Creation Center in Shanghai, China, bringing customers and BASF experts together to transform conceptual ideas into creative solutions, as per the company's press release.
The Creation Center in Shanghai, China was opened by Andy Postlethwaite (right), Senior Vice President, Performance Materials Asia Pacific, BASF, and Alexandre Dreyer, Leader Creation Center, Asia Pacific, BASF.
At the Creation Centers, equipped with world-class workshop facilities and interactive material showcases, BASF provides resources to discover, understand, and create new and improved products and solutions with BASF materials. Customers can explore innovative material solutions, use interactive digital tools such as a tablet device that enable them to learn about the materials, and participate in ideation and material consultancy workshops. Together with BASF experts, they can seamlessly collaborate from design development to advanced simulations through computer-aided engineering (CAE) through to advanced prototyping. In Asia, BASF also operates Creation Centers in Mumbai, India, and Yokohama, Japan.
As MRC wrote before, German chemicals giant BASF has warned profit would fall well below forecasts for the second quarter and full year, blaming a global economic slowdown and trade war between the United States and China.
BASF is the leading chemical company. It produces a wide range of chemicals, for example solvents, amines, resins, glues, electronic-grade chemicals, industrial gases, basic petrochemicals and inorganic chemicals. The most important customers for this segment are the pharmaceutical, construction, textile and automotive industries.
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