Public Affairs
Booming automotive market creates demand for spray painters and body shop staff
BASF Coatings has opened a new training center in Shanghai to meet the burgeoning demand for automotive spray painting professionals and body shop staff. The training center will further strengthen BASF Coatings' competencies in providing enhanced refinish coatings solutions - high quality products bundled with the best application techniques and training. "These days, repairing damage to...
LEWA launches own subsidiary in Norway
The company LEWA ranks among the leading solution providers worldwide for liquid metering in the process industry, especially where critical conditions are concerned. There are hardly any alternatives on the market to LEWA's hermetically diaphragm pumps and metering systems for applications involving critical processes and requiring a high degree of safety. LEWA is a renowned specialist in...
Glasurit: From paint business to global player
BASF Coatings' "Glasurit" brand is celebrating its birthday. Exactly 110 years ago, in 1898, the „Glasurit" brand name was registered. The name stands for "glaze-like hard coating", communicating a crucial quality characteristic of the paints originally produced by Max Winkelmann. The story of the Glasurit brand actually already started 120 years ago in Hamburg,...
Opening Ceremony at P+S
On September 12th 2008 the company and its invited guests from government and industry were celebrating relocation into the new factory at business park Kielweg in Diepholz, Germany. After tough negotiations, when originally movement had seemed already decided on to a different region, the new mayor Dr. Thomas Schulze succeeded with a more unconventional style in keeping the 9 million Euro...
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Wolfgang Niedermark to head BASF's Berlin Liaison Office BASF has appointed a new head of its Berlin Liaison Office. Effective September 1st, 2008, Wolfgang Niedermark (43) has succeeded Dr. Annette Zimmermann in coordinating the dialogue between politics and the company in Berlin. Niedermark will report to Elisabeth Schick, head of Corporate & Governmental Relations at BASF. Niedermark...
