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	<title>News BASF-Products: Coatings</title>
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	<copyright>2008, BASF SE</copyright>
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF Coatings starts operations at production site for paints in Russia]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3093</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[<b>Pavlovski Posad / Münster.</b> BASF Coatings has started up its new production site for paints in Russia. The new facility at Pavlovski Posad, 60 kilometers east of Moscow, has an annual production capacity of 6,000 tonnes of paints (basecoats and clearcoats). The new site will supply customers in the burgeoning Russian automotive market with high-quality coatings.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Tue, 13 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[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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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF Coatings Earns PACE Honorable Mention]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3067</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[<b>Münster / Detroit.</b> BASF Coatings Solutions today announced that it received an Automotive News PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers’ Contribution to Excellence) honorable mention at a ceremony held April 14 in Detroit.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF expert seminar: extensive advice on the EU chemicals regulation REACH ]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3061</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks before the pre-registration phase of the European chemicals policy REACH begins in June 2008, the demand for extensive information and advice is greater than ever. In response, BASF SE is hosting another expert seminar on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) on May 28, 2008 in Berlin.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[The dress to match the darling: Classic Car Colors restore classic cars to their former glory]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3046</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[<b>Essen/Münster.</b> The color archive, which is the largest in the world with over 200,000 colors, plus experience gained from over 100 years of history as a leading automotive refinish manufacturer, provide the basis for Classic Car Colors from Glasurit, a BASF Coatings refinish brand. In connection with the COLOR-PROFI System (CPS) matching colors for vehicles of any age can be identified – even for "veterans" from the turn of the century, as tests at classic car meetings have demonstrated.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Customized refinishing is a must for tuning – but not without an eco-touch ]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3040</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[<b>Paris/Münster/Dortmund.</b> Refinishing jobs in the tuning sector are also subject to European environmental regulations. To comply with the European VOC (volatile organic compound) directives, refinishing products must have a much lower solvent content than was previously the case.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Audi approves eco-friendly BASF refinish paint system for after sales service in India]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3036</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Mumbai/Münster. Audi announced its strategic collaboration in India with BASF, world’s leading chemical company, today. ]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF Coatings (India) wins Ford Q1, supplier quality award]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3022</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Mumbai/Münster.  BASF Coatings (India) Pvt Ltd, the leading supplier of automotive and industrial coatings solutions, received Ford Motor Company’s highest recognition for supplier quality – the prestigious Ford Q 1 award – at a recent vendor meeting held in Chennai, India.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Premiere for environmentally friendly car-tuning paints]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3011</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Paris / Münster. At the Paris Tuning Show, R-M, BASF Coatings’ paint brand, appeared with a splash of color and set a clear signal for environmental protection.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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