Recently, over 100 people, including Markus Heldt, Corporate President of BASF Crop Protection, Albert Heuser, President and Chairman of Greater China at BASF, Wei Qiwen, Vice-director of ICAMA, Li Zhonghua, Secretary-general of CCPIA, relevant leaders from Rudong county, Jiangsu province as well as distributors of BASF from around the country gathered at Rudong Coastal Economic Development Zone in Jiangsu province to witness the opening ceremony of BASF’s first F&P plant in China.

The newly built plant can produce and pack 10,000 tonnes of pesticide formulations annually, of which the solid fungicide/insecticide formulations account for 4,000 tonnes, liquid fungicide/insecticide formulations account for 4,000 tonnes, and herbicide formulations account for 2,000 tonnes. This means that BASF Crop Protection will provide its farmer customers around the world with a wider range of crop protection solutions.

As one of the first multinationals in the agrochemical industry entering the Chinese market, BASF didn’t have its own pesticide F&P plant in China. Markus Heldt, Corporate President of BASF Crop Protection, said that “the successful completion of BASFs new F&P plant in Rudong will ensure BASF’s long-term development in China, and also further highlights BASF’s firm commitment to meet the Chinese agricultural industry’s, local farmers’ and the market’s needs.” BASF will contribute its share to the Chinese agriculture, providing more crop solutions to the farmers in China and more service suiting local conditions to its distributors.

The visit to the plant made a full presentation of BASF’s F&P plant. According to BASF’s employees, the production base in Rudong covers an area of 58,000 square meters and its annual output reaches 10,000 tonnes, producing herbicide, fungicide, and insecticide formulations. Here with advanced automated formulation production processes and laboratory equipment, product quality will be strictly controlled; environmental protection will be ensured with pollution generated in the production process properly treated; and safety in production will be kept firmly in mind cause zero accident is the employee’s target. Never compromising its principles in meeting up HSE requirements, the plant will firmly adhere to the global standards and constantly pursue an excellent production process to create perfect products.