BASF’s Intermediates division has moved its whole Ludwigshafen-manufactured portfolio of acid chlorides and chloroformates to 100% renewable electricity. From early 2025, the site has used renewable energy credit to power the manufacturing of about 25 products, Including the whole process from raw materials to final output.
BASF’s Intermediates division has decreased its product carbon footprint (PCF) on average by 19% as of 2025, with identical reductions anticipated in 2026 and beyond. This transition permits clients to gain a seamless, no-effort change with no recertification or ordering modifications, while guiding lower Scope 3 emission targets.
These sustainability advantages are intensified by the startup of a completely modernized manufacturing asset at the Ludwigshafen Verbund site. The modernization venture expands BASF’s manufacturing capacity for chloroformates and acid chlorides by about 30%, that means that the PCF improvement now apply across a extensively large product volume while assisting long‑term supply security and meeting increasing global demand.
Alisha Van Dyck, Vice President Business Management Acetylenics, Carbonyl Derivatives, Acids & Polyalcohols Europe in BASF’s Intermediates division, explains: “Upgrading our asset and transforming to renewable electricity means our customers for acid chlorides and chloroformates don’t have pick out between sustainability and availability. This action shows our commitment to interpreting our customers’ requires into concrete, verifiable CO₂ reductions across their value chains.”
This conversion is another breakthrough in BASF’s broader aims to be the desired chemical corporation to permits its clients’ green transformation. It follows last year’s global switch of BASF’s amines portfolio to renewable electricity and shows ongoing efforts to increase the usage of renewable electricity and more sustainable practices across BASF’s worldwide intermediates business.
BASF already gives biobased or biomass balanced (BMB)3 variations for numerous acid chlorides and chloroformates. These consist of biobased products which includes palmitoyl chloride, octanoyl chloride and ethyl chloroformate, as well as biomass balanced (BMB) variants for isononanoyl chloride. With the entire portfolio of acid chlorides and chloroformates now produced the use of renewable electricity credits, BASF is taking some other meaningful step closer to changing its portfolio, thus a giving clients worldwide with more, seamless opportunities to reduce their carbon footprint without changes to product specifications or techniques.
BASF is one of the world’s leading producers of chloroformates, acid chlorides and alkyl chlorides, with an annual capacity of 60,000 metric tons and manufacturing facilities in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Yeosu, Korea.
