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BASF and co-sponsors have broken ground on a new school building project at Phuong Ninh Primary and Secondary School, Phung Hiep District, Hau Giang province1, a remote area in Vietnam. The project includes four new classrooms totaling 256 m² and a 1,000 m² playground, aimed at enhancing the educational experience for both teachers and students. This eighth project, facilitated by Saigon Children’s Charity CIO as part of its ‘School Building’ program, will benefit nearly 120-150 students aged 6-15 annually upon its completion in the first quarter of 2025.

BASF Vietnam and its co-sponsors, in collaboration with the social enterprise Think Playgrounds (TPG), have successfully implemented their eighth public playground project in Vietnam. The project aims to support development through outdoor play for more than 200 visually-impaired students at Nguyen Dinh Chieu Special School in Ho Chi Minh City, making it easier for them to learn, grow, and integrate.

BASF achieves ISCC+ certification across all its global major production sites for Acrylics, Alcohols, Glycol Ethers and Acetates, taking an important step to support customers fulfilling their targets and ambitions. With this step, BASF is now able to produce more than 60 products related to this portfolio with one or more sustainability attributes. 

Baby bottles of the baby feeding and nurturing products brand Thyseed are now made of BASF’s high-performance thermoplastic Ultrason®. The bottles for babies and toddlers benefit from the BASF polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) Ultrason^® P 3010 in several ways: It is approved for food contact and features excellent mechanical strength, chemical resistance as well as resistance to superheated steam at 134°C. These properties ensure that the baby bottles are safe to use, while being lightweight and shatter-proof.

BASF's Coatings division has successfully renewed its agreement to procure 100% renewable electricity at its automotive OEM coatings manufacturing operations in Shanghai, China. Through a combination of Renewable Direct Power Purchase (R-DPP), International Renewable Energy Certificates (I-REC), and other measures, the company will continue to power its BASF Shanghai Coatings Minhang and Caojing sites, as well as the BASF Coatings' resin plant in Caojing, solely with green power.