Integration concept, BASF

Hold fast to its verbmd (integration) concept for over four decades, which features closely integrated manufacturing on a world scale at designated sites in Europe, North America, and Asia. BASF has now offered to become a landlord and extend the benefits of verbund to unrelated tenant companies at these plant sites. 

A plant contains all production units required to produce a certain intermediate or finished product. The relationship between a site s plants varies between two extremes. At integrated sites (Verbundstandorte) the plants cover certain steps of the overall production process and are closely linked by material flows. This can be seen as a "plant within a plant" concept based on a process focus. Integrated sites are especially common in production of commodity chemicals. For example, the new integrated site built by BASF in Nanjing, China, consists of a steam cracker producing among others ethylene and propylene. Nine other plants further process the substances. The overall investment to build the site was U.S. 2.9 billion.10... 

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