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11 April 2024
BASF | Nunhems opens Tomato Experience Center in The Netherlands
Nunhem, The Netherlands, April 11, 2024 - Today BASF | Nunhems has officially opened its Tomato Experience Center in Kwintsheul, near The Hague. The greenhouse features over 150 ToBRFV- resistant varieties. It is complemented by modern meeting facilities to showcase the company’s ToBRFV-resistant tomato varieties and exchange with customers on their needs, BASF’s innovations and trends in tomato breeding.
4 October 2023
Strong and vigorous cucumbers from BASF
Nunhem, the Netherlands - October 4, 2023. A strong and grower-friendly cucumber variety, with few splitting heads and upright leaves: that's the UPstage cucumber from BASF's vegetable seeds business. Peter van Ninhuys of Van Gog Kwekerijen is a fan and tells why. And with Arjan de Gier of Thanet Earth we talk about the UPtrace, a similar cucumber variety with great vigor and mildew tolerance.
25 September 2023
BASF I Nunhems® Demo Days 2023 showcase portfolio and innovations for growers
Nunhem, Netherlands – September 25, 2023 BASF I Nunhems® has invited growers, plant raisers, processors, dealers and retail partners to its yearly Demo Days to get first-hand information on the company’s commercial seed assortment, novelties and innovative solutions on four demo fields. At Nunhem, where the company’s headquarters are located, the latest developments and innovative solutions for leeks, carrots and celeriac will be presented on demo fields. In addition, visitors to Nunhems’ location in 's-Gravenzande will be able to find out about both open-field cultivation as well as high-tech cultivation of leafies in hydroponic greenhouses.
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April 25, 2024
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Upon the conclusion of today’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting 2024, Dr. Markus Kamieth becomes the new Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE. At the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting at the Rosengarten Congress Center in Mannheim, Germany, outgoing Chairman Dr. Martin Brudermüller presented his successor with a cycling jersey printed with the BASF logo.
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April 25, 2024
BASF with solid start to the year: EBITDA before special items in first quarter of 2024 slightly above analysts’ consensus
BASF got off to a solid start in 2024. The company today presented figures for the first quarter of 2024, on the day of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held in the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim, Germany. For this event, BASF expects a similar attendance as in 2023 with around 5,000 shareholders and shareholder representatives.
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April 23, 2024
BASF and University of California, Berkeley, celebrate their successful 10-year collaboration
BASF and University of California (UC), Berkeley, USA, are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their collaboration known as the California Research Alliance (CARA). The multidisciplinary research center is focused on evaluating new materials, technologies and processes that will help address key sustainability challenges. To mark the anniversary, BASF and CARA hosted a scientific symposium on sustainable transformation in chemistry on April 22, 2024. The symposium brought together academic researchers, government representatives, and BASF scientists to celebrate the achievements of CARA and discuss how industry and academia can continue to work together to tackle the challenges facing the industry and society as a whole.