Mumbai - Germany BASF Group is planning to increase its R&D activities in Asia and North America with the goal that half of the group's R&D work will take place outside of Germany.
Harald Lauke, head of BASF’s biological effects system research, said in an interview with Plastics News in Mumbai: “We have about 7,000 people working in Ludwigshafan, Germany. So many people are working in the same location and the operation and management are convenient. But at the same time, We continue to look for future growth markets such as North America and Asia Pacific.â€
"At first, we paid more attention to China, but now India is becoming another growth center in Asia," he said. The company hopes to globalize its R&D business. By 2020, general R&D will be conducted in North America and Asia Pacific and half in Germany. BASF currently has about 750 researchers in Asia and will increase to 3,500 by 2020. In 2013, the company invested about 1.8 billion euros.
BASF completed a new global R&D center in Thane, India last week, investing 2 million euros. The center will focus on organic synthesis, advanced processing and formulation, research, and modern agricultural solutions.
The center currently has 30 people and will increase to 60 by the end of the year. Lauke stated that the center's R&D results will be applied to BASF's global operations.
The Indian Centre is a step towards BASF’s strategy of “innovating in the Asia Pacific region and serving the Asia-Pacific region and the global marketâ€. The company will also establish a battery lab in Japan, establish an electronic materials research and development center in Seoul, establish a technical service laboratory in Shanghai, and recently acquire a biotechnology company in California.
In the past five years, BASF doubled its sales in India and reached 1.02 billion euros in 2013, accounting for about 2% of global sales.
BASF opened a chemical catalyst plant in Mangalore last year. In December Chennai broke ground with its mobile emission catalyst expansion capacity project, which is expected to open in 2015. "We will continue to look for opportunities in India and around the world to improve technology through cooperation or acquisition, especially in the areas of lightweight and energy consumption," Lauke said.
BASF is also building an engineering plastic compounding plant in Lishan, South Korea, which is scheduled to open in 2015.
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