On July 2, 2018, BASF announced that the TDI installation at the Ludwigshafen plant entered the testing phase.
The plastic precursor TDI is widely used in the production of seat cushions for the automotive and furniture industries. But a spokesperson said that it will take several weeks for BASF to fully start production. Before that, all parts of the system needed to be carried out. test.
Until March of this year, this multi-billion dollar project had a new TDI reactor. BASF has been having problems on the system.
In 2017, a carcinogen has been in TDI for several weeks due to technical flaws. Together with other materials, TDI can be used to make mattresses. BASF had to recall thousands of tons of TDI, resulting in A loss of 30 million euros. BASF expects to produce about 300,000 tons of TDI chemicals circulating worldwide each year.