MOSCOW (MRC) -- Deutsche Nanoschicht, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF New Business GmbH, is on Tuesday opening its new pilot plant for the manufacture of high temperature superconductors, said the producer on its site.
The facility, located at Rheinbach, Germany is based on an in-house developed chemical manufacturing process and has a fifty times higher capacity than the company’s laboratory plant used to date. The pilot plant is an important step on the way to market launch of the superconductors, the company says. BASF New Business provides customers with samples of the wire manufactured in the new plant to produce prototypes for innovative, high-efficiency applications in power grids. Primary examples are current limiters and cables for direct and alternating current.
As MRC informed earlier, BASF opened a world-scale bioacrylamide (BioACM) production facility at its Bradford, UK. The new production plant at Bradford adds to BASF’s bioacrylamide capacity worldwide, however BASF has not disclosed new or existing capacity figures.
BASF is the largest diversified chemical company in the world and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF 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. BASF generated sales of more than EUR70 billion in 2015.
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