BASF raises prices of carboxylic acids and mixtures

Date:11-16-2007

Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is raising its prices for formic acid, 2 ethylhexanoic acid, Isononanoic acid, propionic acid and mixtures based on formic acid and propionic acid in Europe.

• Formic acid, 85% / + 100 €/t
• Formic acid, 99 % / + 120 €/t
• 2-Ethylhexanoic acid / + 70 €/t
• Isononanoic acid / + 100 €/t
• Propionic acid / + 50 €/t
• Mixtures based on formic acid:
  
  Lupro-Cid® (64% formic acid content) / + 90 €/t
  Lupro-Mix® (43% formic acid content) / + 60 €/t

BASF’s customers successfully use formic acid and mixes containing formic acid in multiple applications. In animal nutrition, they serve to improve feed hygiene and digestion, and as a result allow food of animal origin to be produced in a particularly eco-efficient manner. Formic acid removes paints and rust from metallic surfaces and scale from kettles and boilers. In breweries and wineries it disinfects kegs, casks and barrels; applied as an auxiliary in the pharmaceutical and crop protection industry it regulates pH values; in cleaning it acts as dirt remover and disinfectant. BASF is the world’s leading producer of formic acid, with production plants at its integrated Verbund sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Nanjing, China.