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• BASF and CTC to increase sugarcane crop yield

  Strategy Eye - 2009-08-06

  German chemical firm BASF is partnering with Brazil’s Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira CTC to develop drought-tolerant and higher-yielding varieties of sugarcane. The pair are aiming to increase sugarcane yield by 25% over the next 10 years. BASF says this would result in an increase from an average of 80...

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• ReVolt and BASF form battery venture

  Strategy Eye - 2009-07-12

  BASF Future Business, a subsidiary of German chemical company BASF, is partnering with ReVolt Technology to accelerate the development of ReVolt’s zinc-air battery systems. BASF will supply electrochemistry expertise and component materials to support the technology’s commercialisation. ReVolt claims its rechargeable zinc-air battery provides up to three times more...

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• BASF licenses Argonne battery technology

  Strategy Eye - 2009-06-07

  German chemical firm BASF has signed a global deal to license composite cathode materials developed by the US Department of Energy’s DoE Argonne National Laboratory. BASF is applying for funding from the American Investment and Reinvestment Act’s Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative and, if approved, plans...

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• BASF to develop DoE battery technology

  Strategy Eye - 2009-06-07

  German chemical firm BASF has signed a global deal to license composite cathode materials developed by the US Department of Energy’s DoE Argonne National Laboratory. BASF is applying for funding from the American Investment and Reinvestment Act’s Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative and, if approved, plans...

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• BASF and Sion Power to develop battery technology

  Strategy Eye - 2009-05-17

  German chemical firm BASF is partnering with Arizona-based Sion Power to commercialise lithium-sulphur (Li-S) battery technology. The pair will develop battery materials to improve the battery life and energy density of the Li-S technology, which was developed by Sion. The batteries will be targeted at the electric vehicle market....

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• German group gets USD28m to develop batteries

  Strategy Eye - 2009-03-31

  A consortium led by BASF Future Business BASF FB is receiving EUR21m (USD27.8m) from the German Ministry of Education and Research BMBF to develop lithium-ion batteries for use in plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles. The HE-Lion consortium consists of 18 members, including Freudenberg Viliesstoffe, SGL Carbon, Fraunhofer Institute Itzehoe, Gaia, Bosch...

  Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, BASF AG, Lithium-ion Battery, Production Process, Engineering, Fraunhofer Institute, Volkswagen (VW), Robert Bosch, German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Ranil Pilimatalawa

• BASF presses officials to approve its GM potato

  - 2008-04-19

  LIMBURGERHOF, Germany AFP — German chemical giant BASF is cranking up pressure on the European Commission to get its green light for a genetically modified potato, a world first the company has decided deserves a few pages of advertising. It wrote an open letter to the European Union's executive...

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• Production Journal

  - 2007-10-05

  Leadership Shifts At USDA Just as we went to press, USDA Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns resigned from his post to return to Nebraska and hit the campaign trail for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate. In his spot, President George W....

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• Green research using heterogeneous catalysts.(CATALYSTS)

  - 2007-10-01

  BASF Catalysis Research, USA, has made a three-year research commitment of $600 000 to the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science for graduate and post-doctoral studies into environmentally-benign technologies using heterogeneous catalysts. The programme will...

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• BASF files Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2006 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  - 2007-03-14

  M2 PRESSWIRE-14 March 2007-BASF GROUP: BASF files Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2006 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14032007 BASF today filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...

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