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BASF to Invest in World-Scale Acrylic Acid Complex in Brazil

Start of production planned for 2014

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

BASF will invest in a world-scale production site for acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers (SAP) in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. It will be the first acrylic acid and superabsorbents plant in South America. With an investment volume of more than €500 million, it is the largest investment in BASF’s century-long history in South America. In addition, BASF will start to produce 2-ethyl-hexyl acrylate, an important raw material for the adhesives and special coatings industries, in i...

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