The new acetylene plant, which replaces the almost 60-year-old previous plant at the Ludwigshafen Verbund site, has an annual capacity of 90,000 metric tons. Around 20 plants at the Ludwigshafen site use acetylene as a chemical building block and starting material for manufacturing many everyday products, including pharmaceuticals, plastics, solvents, electronic chemicals and highly elastic textile fibers. BASF customers use these products in the automotive, pharma, construction, consumer goods and textile industries. The integration of the plant into BASF's Verbund system offers advantages such as efficient use of resources, excellent production synergies and short supply routes. In this way, BASF is further enhancing the long-term competitiveness of the Ludwigshafen site. Plant operators Bayram Türkoglu (right) and Peter Keck (left) on a safety walk in the acetylene plant.
Ludwigshafen

Ludwigshafen

NaviLU -

The app for navigating around the Ludwigshafen site

NaviLU is a free app for navigating around the Ludwigshafen site, will make finding your way around the site much easier in the future.

The app is now available for download free of charge and enables users of Android and iOS mobile devices to find any destination on the 10-square-kilometer large site. The app contributes to increasing traffic safety around the site and improving the traffic flow.