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	<title>News from BASF</title>
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF presents innovative sustainable solutions in China’s largest municipality]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3090</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Chongqing, CHINA – May 08, 2008 – BASF – The Chemical Company – is Official Partner of the “Germany and China – Moving Ahead Together” initiative in Chongqing, southwest China. A BASF Pavilion focusing on sustainable urbanization will be open to the public at the Germany Esplanade in the city’s central square from May 9 to 17, 2008. In addition, BASF is sponsoring a forum at Chongqing University at which stakeholders are invited to share their ideas about a sustainable future for Chongqing.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF strengthens network of admixture systems plants in China ]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3088</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Shanghai, CHINA, May 8, 2008 – BASF today opened a new concrete admixture plant in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The facility has been established to manufacture advanced concrete admixtures to benefit customers in central China’s major provinces including Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi.  ]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF Venture Capital GmbH invests in Deutsche Rohstoff AG]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3087</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[BASF Venture Capital GmbH, Ludwigshafen, is investing in Deutsche Rohstoff AG, Heidelberg. Deutsche Rohstoff AG, a private company, is primarily involved in exploration of industrial metals, precious metals and rare earth elements, and has access to proven raw material reserves. ]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Mosquito nets save lives]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3089</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Malaria is one of last three major epidemic diseases, killing well over a million people a year. Only AIDS and tuberculosis claim more victims. Malaria is caused by tiny single-celled organisms called plasmodia transmitted by mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus. Ninety percent of these cases are concentrated in Africa, with young children being most affected. Every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria in Africa and almost every second victim is under five.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF to strengthen its automotive business in India]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3086</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Mumbai, INDIA, May 6, 2008 – BASF announced its plans to expand its offerings for the automotive industry in India with investments in plants and technology. The company will build a new engineering plastics compounding plant at its existing site in Thane, which is expected to come on stream by the second half of 2009.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[European Food Safety Authority rates BASF’s LycoVit as safe]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3084</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has assessed BASF’s lycopene formulations marketed under the brand name LycoVit® as safe for use in foods and food supplements. In this way, the Authority is confirming that BASF’s synthetically produced LycoVit is an alternative to natural lycopene.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF sells its Shreveport site and related contract manufacturing business to Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3080</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[FLORHAM PARK, NJ, April 30, 2008 -- BASF announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its manufacturing facility in Shreveport, Louisiana and the related contract manufacturing business for finished pharmaceuticals to Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, an international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Both parties agreed not to disclose financial details of the transaction, which is expected to close today.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[“Ionic Liquids – Solutions for Your Success”]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3079</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Ionic liquids are a unique type of product with unparalleled characteristic properties that cannot be achieved with any other material. The entire bandwidth of industrial applications for which ionic liquids from BASF can be used is now summarized in the brochure titled “Ionic Liquids – Solutions for Your Success”.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF officially launches the collaborative Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3077</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[<b>Cambridge, MA and Ludwigshafen, Germany – April 29, 2008 –</b>  BASF today announced the official launch of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University. The Research Initiative at Harvard University represents an innovative model for university-industry collaboration designed specifically to drive new frontiers of scientific discovery. The opening of the initiative was celebrated with an inaugural two-day Symposium on Biofilms held in Cambridge, Massachusetts.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF enters a challenging 2008 with a record first quarter]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3073</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Ludwigshafen, Germany - April 24, 2008 - The BASF Group has continued on its successful path in the first three months of 2008. Having posted a further record quarter, it is confident with regard to the coming months. First-quarter sales rose by almost 9 percent to €15.9 billion, while income from operations (EBIT) before special items increased by more than 11 percent compared with the same period of 2007 to almost €2.4 billion.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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