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September 2023

Joncryl^® Bio-Based Binders & Barrier Coatings for Sustainable Packaging

Dear Readers,

Are you interested in reducing the impact of packaging on the environment? Numerous brand owners have set ambitious goals to achieve this, such as using more bio-based content, reducing waste, and increasing recyclability.

Join us for two web seminars to learn how to lower your product's carbon footprint and achieve your sustainability goals!

In September, discover how to effectively cut down the fossil resources of your water-based inks and varnishes with our cutting-edge Joncryl^® BRC and MB solutions based partly on renewable raw materials.

IIn November, explore Joncryl^®HPB products, a range of water-based liquid polymer barriers for paper that help make food packaging fully repulpable, enabling its recycling with minimal waste.

Learn from industry experts how these innovative products can help your business reduce its environmental impact and get ready to transform your packaging game! Sign up for our two insightful web seminars on sustainable solutions.

We are looking forward to welcoming you.

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June 2023

Interpack 2023: smoothing the path to sustainable packaging

Dear Readers,

At Interpack 2023 in Düsseldorf, the BASF Resins team showcased progressive packaging solutions and cooperation partnerships with customers. The industry is clearly embracing sustainability and collaboration with the objective of shaping a more sustainable future. Reflecting this emphasis, BASF is working in cooperation with partners throughout the packaging value chain to help improve the sustainability of various products throughout their life cycle.

The Resins team presented fully water-based printed and converted paper and flexible packaging among other exhibits. These progressive solutions allow customers to achieve lower carbon emissions, reduce plastic waste and increase the share of renewables in their products. One particular highlight that attracted strong interest was the Joncryl^® HPB product line, which enables packaging to be recycled via the regular paper waste stream.

Find out more about the highlights of interpack 2023 and join us on our journey towards a more sustainable packaging world!

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April 2023

Together, let’s grab tomorrow today ‒ join us on our journey!

Dear Readers,

Interpack is just around the corner! Circularity is our prime focus and we will be proudly showcasing solutions for achieving greater sustainability in packaging throughout the product life cycle ‒ from “before store” through “in store” to “after store”. We would very much look forward to meeting you in person and invite you to grab the chance to speak face-to-face with our experts.

March 2023

Meet our new printing & packaging team lead and discover new prospects for circularity

Dear Readers,

Are you looking to improve the sustainability of your packaging products? We are focusing strongly in 2023 on helping you to do just that. Our latest newsletter announces the addition of new products that promote greater circularity in the packaging sector.

Our new Head of Global Marketing, Resins for Paper, Simon Foster, introduces himself and provides an outlook on upcoming projects.

And we proudly present Lab Assistant, our inventive tool that enables you to find the best raw materials for your needs, simplifies your lab work and connects you with our experts.

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NEWSLETTER 06/22

How we’re contributing to a sustainable chemical industry

Dear Readers,

We specialize in helping our customers overcome their challenges. Without a doubt, the greatest challenge of our time is climate change. It is our responsibility to do what it takes to make our industry function within planetary boundaries, and to reach carbon-neutrality as soon as we can.

At BASF, our strategic focus on sustainability starts with our own organization. We have made robust CO2-reduction commitments, including an overall goal to reach net zero by 2050, with an intermediate milestone of a 25% absolute emissions reduction by 2030 (from 2018 baseline, Scope 1 & 2).

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NEWSLETTER 05/22

New web seminar: An expert guide to BASF’s Lab Assistant

Dear Readers,

At BASF, our mission is to enable our customers to develop new innovations, as quickly and reliably as possible.

That’s why we have introduced the Lab Assistant: a powerful digital tool that enables you to find the best raw materials for your specific needs and simplifies lab work. Available to our clients for Architectural Coatings and Construction and now also to our customers in Automotive & Industrial, Furniture & Flooring, and Printing & Packaging, the Lab Assistant can make recommendations for your desired applications, supply detailed product information, connect you with experts, and even allows you to order samples in a direct, time-saving and convenient way.

To help you use Lab Assistant to its full potential, we have organized a web seminar.

Lab Assistant will replace the well-known Resins & Additive-Search. So, don’t miss the chance to get to know BASF’s most relevant digital touchpoint for you. We are excited to see how you use it for your benefit!

NEWSLETTER 04/22

“Consusmart printing” with water-based inks

Dear Reader,

Are we doing enough in the flexible packaging industry to embrace every aspect of sustainability? Do we make our operations as efficient as possible, and do we adopt new technologies and systems that support people and the planet?

In PRETHINK INK, we want to help design the answers to those questions, together with you. Therefore, we are pleased to invite you to a web seminar on “consusmart” water-based inks on flexible packaging.

NEWSLETTER 03/22

Opening barriers to recycling, boosting the “bio” in binders

Dear Reader,

It is thanks to our customers that we gain a better understanding of the market and can therefore serve it better. Together with our technical and marketing colleagues, we are working increasingly in global project teams to strengthen our innovation network and provide the results our customers need. Whether a project is short- or long-term, our aim is to convert their ideas and requests into new products and solutions.

In line with today’s market emphasis on improving the sustainability of packaging, our team is focusing strongly on the development of products with a bio-renewable content as well as on technologies for paper packaging that enable, for example, the creation of moisture and grease barriers.

Our pipeline is full! There will be 10 new launches this year – four Joncryl^® HPB barrier products, four Joncryl^® BRC bio-based binders for ink and overprint varnishes, and two Joncryl^® DPS water-based resins for digital printing.

You can discover more about Joncryl^® HPB and Joncryl^® BRC in this newsletter.

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NEWSLETTER 02/22

First-hand insights from BASF Dispersions & Resins R&D expert

Dear Readers,

Digitalization in research and development gives us new opportunities to implement creative ideas and to drive innovation for our customers. How can we accelerate synthesis research and product development with digital technologies? How can we strengthen business continuity and virtual data access for employees, customers, and collaboration partners?

We are delighted to welcome you to the opening web seminar of our new digitalization series, focusing on how to drive digital adoption in R&D. In this web seminar, Dr. Kathrin Cohen, Head of digitalization in R&D for dispersion & resins will share first-hand insights on strategy, roadmaps, values, and progress of digital adoption gained from more than three years in R&D operations at BASF.

NEWSLETTER 01/22

Let’s kick-start our sustainability journey together in 2022

Dear Readers,

we hope the new year has started well for you.

For many of us, the biggest challenge for this year and further ahead is sustainability: finding new ways to future-proof our businesses, protect the environment and preserve resources. And many of you will ask yourselves the question: How can we transform our business while maintaining our competitive strength?

Regarding this chance, we have been thinking of more ways to support you and share our insights to accelerate your sustainability efforts together with ours.

We are pleased to announce a web seminar on a topic that is both a challenge and an opportunity for the paint and coatings industry: The European Green Deal.

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NEWSLETTER 5/2021

Digital, flexible and sustainable: The future of inkjet printing

Dear Readers,

Digital inkjet printing is on the rise. As it becomes the preferred choice for more and more labels and packaging uses, we have a unique opportunity to make it more sustainable by adopting water-based ink. Join our expert web seminar for exclusive insight into why this is so important, and how to make going water-based a success.

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NEWSLETTER 4/2021

Love happy eggs, digital printing and replacing plastics? Enjoy our news!

Dear Reader,

Discover different options for expanding the scope of ink jet with the latest Joncryl® DPS digital printing solutions and with our smart rheology modifiers. And find out how you can replace plastics in packaging with the aid of Joncryl® HPB 1634!

We also share the latest on our PRETHINK INK network and – last but not least – there is someone new: Say hello to Rolf Alles, the new head of our Printing & Packaging team, who is making his first newsletter appearance.

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NEWSLETTER 3/2021

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Join our series of web seminars on sustainable solutions for packaging!

Dear Readers,

It was with sadness that we learned Interpack 2021 will not take place this year. However, the safety of all exhibitors and attendees must of course come first. We have been exploring ways to give all our customers the access to news, advice and expert contacts that they would normally expect from Interpack – but in a remote setting. As a result, we’re delighted to announce that we will hold a series of web seminars this March, covering all the latest trends and topics in sustainable packaging, ranging from product innovations to new technologies and current customer projects – including expert insights into water-based ink technology.

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NEWSLETTER 2/2021

Our lastest topics for Performance and Formulation Additives: Label-free light-stablizers, digitalization and sustainable solvent-based coatings.

Dear Readers,

Time flies! It feels like the year has just begun, but our first set of web seminars in 2021 has already concluded. Now, we’re pleased to announce the next series.

You have three sessions to look forward to, starting this month:

Looking for label-free alternatives to Tinuvin^® 292 and Tinuvin^® 770? Join our first webinar at the end of February.

Interested in how digitalization works for printing and packaging applications? That’s the subject of our session in early March.

Want to drive sustainability in solvent-based industrial and wood coatings? Our web seminar in mid-March is for you.

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NEWSLETTER 1/2021

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Be well-prepared in the new year with smart solutions for WB & UV systems and our sustainability toolbox

Dear Readers,

We are happy to invite you to our 1^st web seminar series 2021 for Resins for Furniture & Flooring.

Waterbased 1K offerings for furniture coatings to offer high resistance to chemicals, wear and scratch for flatstock and furniture backings as well as medium and high quality furniture.

Excellent wood treatment with UV systems to meet the latest requirements of large furniture manufacturers such as IKEA when it comes to the quality of coated materials (e.g. IOSMAT 0066) and the use of renewable or recyclable resources (e.g. IKEA renewable guideline).

Sustainability toolbox for furniture & flooring to save fossil resources with up to 100% of renewables and reducing your CO2 footprint – without compromising on product performance.

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NEWSLETTER 5/2020

A new binder, a new additive and your chance to meet us virtually

Dear Reader,
With this newsletter, we are announcing two successful new developments ‒ innovative binder Joncryl^® HPB 4011 and Efka^® PB 2770, a highly effective defoamer. We are also inviting you to a web seminar on November 4 where our colleague Jan van Delft will explain how you can reduce your carbon footprint by using renewable raw materials. Finally, a short update on our new PRETHINK INK platform describes how this novel venture is bringing together more players throughout the ink value chain.

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NEWSLETTER 4/2020

Web Seminars for Performance and Formulation Additives, 5^thSeries 2020

Dear Reader,

We are pleased to invite you to our final series of web seminars in 2020.

The topics we have chosen to complete this year’s program are:

UV stabilization of UV-curable systems,
Efka^® PB 2744 - an excellent defoamer for fast and effective deaeration of 100% solid systems, in combination with our Sovermol^® range - performance-driven polyols based on natural oil,
additives for reactive systems
and how additives help bring about a sustainable future.

We are already working on the first set of sessions for 2021. So stay tuned – there is more to come!

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NEWSLETTER 3/2020

Web Seminars for Performance and Formulation Additives, 4^thSeries 2020

Topics covered this time include our dispersion toolbox, which enables label-free universal pigment concentrates, and Rheovis PU 1340, our highly efficient Newtonian PU thickener for flat to high-gloss coatings in the areas of architectural coatings. In addition, we deal with light stabilizers due to several requests. We present Tinuvin 5866 – the optimal solution for a wide range of applications, typically sealants that heat up in the sun – and Tinuvin 533-DW for joinery, wood and other industrial coatings that require UV-A and UV-B protection.

NEWSLETTER 2/2020

PRETHINK INK: the new network for water-based technology

Dear Reader,

As we all navigate the impacts of a global crisis, we have been working out how we can collaborate closer than ever despite being apart, and renew our commitment to sustainability. That’s why we are proud to introduce the PRETHINK INK network, which aims to bring together partners from across the value chain to share knowledge, contacts and experiences with water-based inks for flexible packaging. We want to raise awareness of the potential of water-based inks for business and sustainability, and encourage discussion about their benefits and challenges. PRETHINK INK is an open network: if you work in the flexible packaging industry, it is for you.

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NEWSLETTER 1/2020

Water-based solutions for attractive packaging

Dear Reader,

During these challenging and uncertain times, I hope this newsletter finds you healthy and safe. We were very much looking forward to meeting many of you, our partners and customers, at Interpack 2020 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Now that the fair has been postponed to 2021, we will be sure to stay in touch with you in other ways, for example via this newsletter. So let’s dive right in: our latest news include our new binder Joncryl^® HSL 9055, new colloidal emulsions and grinding resins as well as selected additives that provide greater freedom in formulating inks and coatings for sustainable packaging.

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NEWSLETTER 2/2019

Combining performance with sustainability

Dear Reader,

Are you facing the challenges of switching from solvent- to water-based systems? In this newsletter we provide insights into electron beam curing: We introduce our new, groundbreaking technology for sustainable, high-end surface printing. Other recent introductions are also designed to combine top performance with improved environmental compatibility: our team presents two highly reactive resins for LED curing and a versatile, water-based dispersing agent