BASF will set up its new Electronic Materials Research and Development (R&D) Center Asia Pacific in partnership with Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Suwon, South Korea. Located within the SKKU campus around 30 km from Seoul, the facility will serve as an integrated hub for electronic materials research in the region. Starting from 2014, around 40 scientific and technical professionals will work at the new R&D facilities.

As part of BASF’s global R&D network, the new R&D Center will focus on researching specialty and process chemicals, inorganic materials and formulations for high-performance applications for semiconductors, displays, organic electronics, LEDs and photovoltaics, offering a wide range of innovative solutions for the electronics value chains.

• Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, South Korea
• BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany