# BASF breaks ground on $780M MDI capacity expansion at Geismar, Louisiana

BASF broke ground on the third and final phase of its MDI expansion project at its Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana. The $780 million investment will increase production capacity to approximately 600,000 metric tons per year by the middle of the decade.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2018-05-25
- Where: Geismar, Louisiana, United States
- Value: $780.0M
- Starts operating: 2025
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 600,000 metric tons per year
- Products: methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI)
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [BASF](https://endata.com/companies/298.md)

## Sources

- [business.sherbrookerecord.com](http://business.sherbrookerecord.com/sherbrookerecord/article/gnwcq-2023-1-11-basf-breaks-ground-on-mdi-capacity-expansion-project-at-geismar-site), 2018-05-25: "BASF has broken ground on the third and final phase of the methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) expansion project at its Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana"
- [pcimag.com](https://www.pcimag.com/articles/topic/4567-news?page=672), 2018-06-08: "BASF announced that the company plans to extend its production capacities for isoindoline yellow pigments by around 70% by 2020."

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