Pro environment: Waterborne basecoat

Capacity expansion at BASF Würzburg production site completed

Around one and one-half years after the construction start, BASF Coatings has launched its new production and lab capacities for basecoats at the Würzburg site.

“With this capacity expansion, we are making a bold statement in the face of the economic crisis,“ Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, Member of the Board of BASF SE, stressed the significance of the investment.

“We are pursuing our long-term strategy and are consistently building on our environmentally friendly waterborne basecoat technology.”

Production capacities have been expanded and state-of-the-art dispersion and dosing techniques implemented. Basecoat development has been concentrated in a newly constructed lab building.

Additional application facilities have been set up to cover lab and production needs. During the mid-1980s, BASF employees in Würzburg developed the waterborne basecoat technology.

Today, it continues to set the global standards in terms of product properties and ecological quality. Around 50 million vehicles currently sport waterborne basecoats “Made in Würzburg,” and the numbers are growing.

Within BASF Coatings’ global network, Würzburg plays a key role in research on and the production of waterborne basecoats and is BASF’s competence center for this important, environmentally friendly product.

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