BASF Report 2021 Management’s Report – Material Investments and Portfolio Measures 39 Chemicals Overview of material investments Segment Location Project Start-up Strategically, our investments concentrate on the growth markets Chemicals Antwerp, Belgium Capacity expansion: ethylene oxide plant 2022 to support the growth of our customers in China. In 2021, for exam- a Kuantan, Malaysia Capacity expansion: 2-ethylhexanoic acid plant 2024 ple, we increased the production capacity for tertiary butylamine. Nanjing, China Capacity expansion: tertiary butylamine plant 2021 Together with our partner Sinopec, we are pushing ahead with plans Capacity expansion: propionic aldehyde, propionic acid, purified ethylene oxide, 2023 to further expand the site in Nanjing, China, to strengthen the joint ethyleneamines and ethanolamines plantsb production of chemical products in China. For instance, we plan to Construction: tert-butyl acrylate plantb 2023 further expand our production capacities for propionic aldehyde, Zhanjiang, China Construction: neopentyl glycol plant 2025 propionic acid, purified ethylene oxide, ethanolamines and ethylen- eamines, and build a new tert-butyl acrylate plant. The expanded Materials Chalampé, France Construction: world-scale production plant for HMD 2024 and new plants are scheduled to come onstream in 2023. Geismar, Louisiana Capacity expansion: MDI plants 2026 Zhanjiang, China Construction: engineering plastics plant 2022 At our Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium, we are significantly Industrial Solutions Jiaxing, China Capacity expansion: production plant for sulfuric acid 2023 expanding our ethylene oxide plant. The project also includes Jinshan, China Capacity expansion: synthetic esters 2022 several downstream plants, for example, to produce surfactants. Jurong, Singapore Capacity expansion: antioxidants (Irganox®) 2022 The expansion is scheduled to come onstream in 2022. Pasir Gudang, Malaysia Capacity expansion: production plant for acrylics dispersions 2021 Pontecchio Marconi, Italy Capacity expansion: antioxidants (Irganox®) 2021 ® ® Materials Capacity expansion: light stabilizers (Tinuvin NOR 356) 2021 Surface Technologies Chennai, India Capacity expansion: plant for mobile emissions catalysts 2022 In the Materials segment, production capacities at the methylene Harjavalta, Finland Construction: precursor plant for cathode active materials 2022 diphenyl isocyanate (MDI) plants in Geismar, Louisiana, were suc- Pinghu, China New surface treatment site 2021 cessfully increased by one third following the construction of a new Schwarzheide, Germany Construction: cathode active materials plant 2022 MDI synthesis unit, which was completed with the start of opera- Construction: battery recycling prototype plant 2023 tions in 2020. In the final phase, we plan to increase capacities to Nutrition & Care Antwerp, Belgium Capacity expansion: alkoxylates 2018–2022 around 600,000 metric tons per year by 2026. With this gradual Düsseldorf, Germany Gradual upgrade of production plants in accordance with the Good Manufacturing capacity expansion, we are supporting the continuing growth of our Practice Standard issued by the European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients (EFfCI) 2023 North American MDI customers. Jinshan, Chinac New production line: UV filters 2023 Ludwigshafen, Germany Capacity expansion: production plant for methane sulfonic acid 2022 The construction of the first plants at our smart Verbund site in Capacity expansion: production plant for vitamin A 2021 Zhanjiang, China, is in progress. The new plants are scheduled to Agricultural Solutions Beaumont, Texas Modernization of site infrastructure 2022 come onstream in 2022. They will produce engineering plastics and Hannibal, Missouri Modernization of site infrastructure 2022 thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to serve the increasing needs of Nunhem, Netherlands Expansion of breeding facilities for vegetable seeds 2021 various growth industries in the southern China market and in other Asian markets. Singapore New formulation hub for crop protection products 2022 Sparks, Georgia New facility for seed treatment formulations 2021 BASF is investing in a new world-scale production plant for a Operated by a fully consolidated joint venture with Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad b Operated by a joint venture with Sinopec hexamethylened iamine (HMD) at the Chalampé site in France. The c This project was relocated from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to Jinshan, China.