On January 7 2005, BASF-YPC Company Limited made its first delivery of 20 tons of methyl acrylate to its very first customer, Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited. Methyl acrylate is the first product manufactured by the company's integrated petrochemical site in Nanjing, China, which has just achieved mechanical completion as scheduled at the end of 2004. "The inaugural delivery...

On January 1st 2005, 350 employees of the company participated in the Nanjing 23rd New Year's Long-distance Running. The running was among series of activities aiming at propagandizing and welcoming the forthcoming 10th National Sports Game in Nanjing and about 10,000 citizens joined in the running. It started at 9:00 a.m. and the total distance was 6.8Km. Though it was icy cold outside, led ...

Being approved by Jiangsu Provincial Government recently, the company's jetties have been officially open to foreign vessels. This is the first officially approved international open jetty in Nanjing by the provincial government since 1986.The jetties, located at the estuary of Huangchang River and downstream of the Jetty No.16 of Yangzi Petrochemical Corporation, comprise one for working boa...

BASF-YPC Co. Ltd. has produced its first chemical product: methyl acrylate. The successful start-up of the methyl acrylate plant on December 22, 2004, marked the mechanical completion of the integrated petrochemical site as scheduled by end of 2004."This was the ambitious goal which BASF and SINOPEC set jointly when they established the joint venture in 2000," stated Dr. Bernd Blumenberg, Pre...

At 10:18 a.m. of November 16, 2004, Dr. Kurt Raschka, the General Manager of Engineering, Maintenance, EHS & Utilities Division, pressed the synchronizing push-button of Gas Turbine No.2, and the synchronization of the power plant with the public grid was successful. From that moment on the Power Plant began to operate as the first plant, which has been put into commercial operation in the comp...

Dr. Paul Jacobs, Director of Human Resources Department of the company, was honored "Jiangsu Friendship Award" in 2004.On the afternoon of September 28, 2004, Jiangsu Provincial Government held a grand ceremony to grant "Jiangsu Friendship Award" to Dr. Jacobs and other 17 foreign experts working in Jiangsu to honor their great contributions to the construction of Jiangsu.Dr. Jacobs, in his...