Compared to amines, which have been used traditionally in this type of reaction, the BASF process based on 1-methylimidazole is less cost-intensive and at the same time easier on the environment. The new process for synthesizing phosphorus compounds, which are used as chemical building blocks to produce photoinitiators in UV-curable coatings, reliably avoids a number of problems encountered to date: Stability and product yield improve, and the process is less laborious.
ChemE Awards program: a portrait “The encouragement and celebration of innovation and excellence in the process industries.” Those are the aims of the awards program run by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), the British professional body for chemical and process engineers based in Rugby, UK. The idea is to give an annual opportunity to celebrate engineering successes, in contrast to the industrial tendency to keep heads down.
IChemE Awards are international and any organization worldwide is eligible to enter. 2005 is the twelfth year of the program. The awards program began in 1994 with a single award: the Cremer and Warner Medal for excellence in safety and environment, named after the UK's most famous process engineering consultancy which came into prominence with the investigation of the 1974 Flixborough disaster.
BASF maintains business relationships with customers in more than 170 countries and supplies approximately 8,000 products from its five segments to a wide range of industries worldwide. BASFs strength is not only that it has an extremely broad product range, but also that it supplies an extraordinary number of different industries. This balance makes the company relatively resilient to factors affecting individual industries.
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