View From the Top: Simon Strauch, BASF
03 Aug 2017 --- The Human Genome Project’s revelation in 2003 that there are around 20,500 human genes was a milestone in science and health. Now, as individuals all over the world strive to live longer more healthily, personalized nutrition is being eyed as one breakthrough that will allow them to achieve this goal.
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COMPANY DETAILSBASF Carl-Bosch-Strasse 38 Ludwigshafen 67056 Germany
Tel. +49 621 60-0 Fax. +49 (0)621 60-42525 ACTIVE CATEGORIESChemicals - Miscellaneous, Colours - Synthetic & Azo-Dyes, Minerals and Food Supplements, Vitamins BASF is one of the leading producers and suppliers of Aroma Chemicals, such as Geraniol, Citronellol and Linalool which are part of BASF’s Citral value chain. Aroma Chemicals are sold to the flavor and fragrance industry finding their use mainly in home and personal care products, fine fragrances as well as in the food industry. Our manufacturing processes are based on petrochemical raw materials only. We take advantage of a network of interconnected production facilities at our headquarter in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Health ingredients Our vitamins and carotenoids enable you to enhance your dietary supplements, functional drinks and health food products with attractive additional benefits. You can choose from a wide range of premium quality natural and nature-identical formulations that we can supply in industrial quantities with absolute reliability. For example, LycoVit® is our nature-identical red carotenoid: it can be used as a coloring in drinks and food products, but it is also a powerful antioxidant which protects human cells by counteracting the damaging effects of free oxygen radicals applicable for dietary supplement concepts. Related ArticlesFood Ingredients News BASF, Cargill, P&G & GIZ Drive Production of Sustainable Coconut Oil in the Philippines and Indonesia
29 Jun 2017 --- BASF, Cargill, Procter & Gamble (P&G), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have joined together in a development partnership under the develoPPP.de program by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The partnership will help establish a sustainable certified and transparent supply chain of coconut oil in the Philippines and Indonesia. Food Ingredients News BASF Enters Indian Crop Protection Market for Rice
25 Jan 2017 --- Rice farmers in India will be able to boost productivity and income with the help of BASF crop protection solutions for rice, now available in the country for the first time. Business News BASF Strengthens Footprint in Asia Pacific
04 Jan 2017 --- BASF have opened a new technical application laboratory for its nutrition and health business, located at Singapore Polytechnic. The new facility, Newtrition Lab Asia Pacific, will focus on providing analytical service and codeveloping products with customers in the region, catering to diverse markets across Asia Pacific to provide the right nutrients to the right people at the right time. Food Ingredients News Engenia Herbicide from BASF Approved for Use in the US
22 Dec 2016 --- BASF’s newest herbicide, Engenia, was granted approval by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Engenia is the most technologically advanced formulation of the active ingredient dicamba and will provide growers the control of more than 200 broadleaf weeds, including those resistant to glyphosate. Business News ChemChina’s $43bn Purchase of Syngenta Cleared by Australian Competition Regulators
09 Dec 2016 --- ChemChina’s proposed $43bn acquisition of Syngenta will not be derailed by Australian competition regulators, who have green-lighted the deal saying it had no competition concerns. |
