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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.

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).

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!

“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.

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.

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.

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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