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Specialty Chemicals
BASF spotlights optical brighteners
by Marc S. Reisch
July 25, 2019
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 97, Issue 30
BASF is increasing its investment in one optical brightener business and selling another. At its site in Monthey, Switzerland, BASF plans to make a multimillion-dollar investment to increase capacity for Tinopal CBS, a line of environmentally preferred distyryl biphenyl derivatives used in laundry detergents. Separately, BASF plans to sell to Archroma its stilbene-based optical brighteners business for paper and powder detergents. The transaction includes a plant in Ankleshwar, India, that employs 100 people.
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