BASF Corp. has announced that it will start-up a new multi-million euro fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts testing and research laboratory at the hte AG facility in Heidelberg, Germany. hte is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE and a leading provider of high throughput technology and services for enhancing research and development productivity.
The new laboratory will begin operating in the first half of 2014. It will be used for hydrocarbon and FCC equilibrium catalysts standard analysis and characterization, FCC catalysts process methodology testing, and related research activities.
- BASF Corp., Iselin, NJ, USA
- BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany
- hte AG, Heidleberg, Germany