LUDWIGSHAFEN CHOSEN TO HOUSE BASF'S 300 KTPA TDI PLANT

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Ludwigshafen, Germany - BASF has confirmed plans announced last autumn to invest ?1000 million ($1322 million) to build a single-train 300-kilotonnes-per-annum (ktpa) plant to make TDI (toluene diisocyanate) in Europe.The location, previously undecided, will be at BASF's huge complex in Ludwigshafen. The plant will come on stream at the end of 2014.BASF also announced, as already indicated, that it will close its 80 ktpa TDI plant in Schwarzheide, in eastern Germany, when the new plant starts up.