World Chemical News by chemwinfo
5 January 2021
BASF increases prices for its Formulation Additives
globally Effective today,
as existing contracts allow,
BASF is increasing prices globally
for a large part of its Formulation Additives
for paint and coatings industry
such as
Attagel®, Dispex®, Efka®, Foamaster®,
Foamstar®, Hydropalat®, Loxanol®
and Rheovis® grades.
Price increases of up to 5 – 10%
dependent on region are needed
to compensate for increasing costs
from transportation, safety, legislation,
registration requirements (e.g. Reach, TSCA)
and to continue to support customers
with high level products and services
About BASF’s Performance & Formulation
Additives portfolio
BASF is a premiere provider of performance
and formulation additives
for the paints and coatings industry.
With a comprehensive range of respected brands
and a broad technology base of
dispersing agents,
defoamers,
rheology modifiers,
wetting agents
and surface modifiers,
filmforming agents,
light stabilizers,
antioxidants and optical brighteners,
our unique portfolio helps to enable
performance-driven products,
which are passionately designed to meet
the latest and most stringent environmental regulations.
17 December 2020
INEOS signs renewable power deal with RWE
to reduce CO emissions
from its Belgian sites by a further 745,000 tonnes
10 year 56-Megawatt (~200 GWh per annum)
Renewable Power Purchase Agreement
Renewable electricity goes direct
to INEOS sites in Belgium.
Advances emission reductions at INEOS sites
in Belgium to nearly 2 million tonnes of CO
Forms important part of the INEOS roadmap
for a reduction in carbon-based energy for its facilities.
INEOS has agreed a long term Power Purchase Agreement
for renewable offshore wind power
in Belgium with RWE.
Under the terms of the ten-year deal,
which begins in 2021, INEOS will purchase
56-Megawatt (198 GWh per annum)
of off-shore wind power from
RWE Supply &Trading,
produced at the Northwester2 wind park
in the Belgian North Sea.
This significant deal will take
ca. 25% of Northwester2’s renewable electricity.
It will reduce the carbon footprint of INEOS
in Belgium by a further 745,000 tonnes of CO2
over the length of the contract,
which is the equivalent of
taking 65,000 cars off the road each year.
This is the second renewable power deal
agreed by INEOS as part of our road map
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
from across its operations,
as the company continues to supply
essential products that people increasingly need
across medical, food, transport and construction.
Combined with the Norther deal announced in September
with Engie, the agreement with RWE
increases the INEOS commitment to
Belgian offshore renewable wind to 140 MW
(~500 GWh per annum).
Together this reduces
the carbon footprint of its operations
by nearly 2 million tons of CO2
over the life of the contracts;
the equivalent of taking more than 160,000 cars
off the road each year.
16 December 2020
Solvay decarbonizes production at its Melle plant
in France.
Solvay has begun a process of decarbonizing
the cyclopentanone unit of its Melle plant in France.
Through an agreement with an agricultural cooperative
for the next fifteen years,
the entire cyclopentanone production
already relies solely on biomethane gas,
a green source of energy.
The cooperative built a facility to convert
waste biomass into18 GWh
of renewable natural gas (RNG) per year,
which Solvay has committed
to purchase for its Melle plant.
Guillaume Meunier,
Flavor & Fragrance Global Market Director
for Solvay Aroma Performance
“Powering the Melle plant with biomethane gas
is a part of our Solvay ONE Planet initiative,
which aims to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26% by 2030.”