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BASF BASF has agreed to sell its acrylonitrile plant at Seal Sands on Teesside to Ineos Nitriles for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of 240 staff. 17-Mar-2008 BASF is planning to close its adipodinitrile plant in Seal Sands in 2009, with the loss of 30 jobs. 13-Jun-2007 BASF is planning to shed up to 35 of the 250 jobs at its nylon intermediates plant at Seal Sands. 15-Dec-2003 BASF has offered a 100,000 sq ft pharmaceuticals research facility to Nottingham Trent University, and the university plans to transform it into an innovation centre for biomedical start-ups. 08-Aug-2001 BASF of Germany is planning to close 10 chemical plants worldwide, including its superabsorbents plant in Birkenhead and possibly some of the other 24 UK sites. 22-Jun-2001 BASF is to close its pharmaceutical research and development centre in Nottingham by next March, with the loss of 200 jobs. 20-Nov-2000 BASF is to relocate its pharmaceuticals headquarters from Germany to London, prompting speculation that the division could eventually be sold. 20-Jan-2000 Shell and BASF are planning to merge their commodity plastics operations into a new joint venture company with annual sales of $6bn. 04-Nov-1999 BP Amoco and BASF have commissioned a new acetonitrile purification unit at the BASF nylon intermediates facility at Seal Sands, which will be owned by BP Amoco and operated by BASF. 02-Oct-1999 BASF has confirmed plans to cut 260 jobs at its Seal Sands chemicals plant on Teesside over the next 18 months, in order to secure the future viability of the site. 15-Mar-1999 BASF is to cut 260 of the 630 jobs at its acrylonitrile operation at Seal Sands, as part of a review of working methods. 22-Jan-1999 BASF is planning to build a £10m acetonitrile plant at Seal Sands in a joint venture with BP Chemicals. 25-Aug-1998 ICI is planning to invest £100m in a joint venture with BASF to build a £390m polyurethane plant near Shanghai, due to open by 2004. 01-Jun-1998 Shell International Chemicals and BASF are having to delay their planned polyethylene joint venture following a request by the European Commission for more details. 23-Oct-1997 Shell is buying out Montedison's 50% stake in their Montell polypropylene joint venture for £1.25bn and is setting up a polyethylene joint venture with BASF, as part of a major restructuring of its chemicals business. 13-Sep-1997 ICI is acquiring the Syngas catalyst business from BASF for about £15m. 28-Jan-1997 Shell and BASF are to merge their polyethylene businesses into a 50:50 joint venture in response to the industry's overcapacity and volatile prices. 11-Oct-1996 BASF is buying Zeneca's textile colours operation for up to £150m, which includes sites in Ellesmere Port, Brazil and North Carolina. 09-May-1996 Shell Chemicals plans to link up with BASF to build a plant in either the Netherlands or Germany to produce 250,000 tonnes a year of polypropylene and 550,000 tonnes a year of styrene monomer. 22-Feb-1996 A major fire has damaged the BASF polypropylene plant at ICI Wilton. 10-Oct-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008