# BASF to expand chloroformates and acid chlorides capacity at Ludwigshafen site

BASF is modernizing and expanding its production of chloroformates and acid chlorides at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site, investing a low three-digit million euro amount to increase capacity by around 30 percent. The project is expected to be completed in the course of 2025.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2022-01-30
- Where: Ludwigshafen, Germany
- Value: $113.0M (100.0M EUR)
- Starts operating: 2025
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 60,000 metric tons per year (current); 30% increase
- Products: chloroformates, acid chlorides, alkyl chlorides
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

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

## Sources

- [basf.com](https://www.basf.com/global/en/media/news-releases/2022/01/p-22-124), 2022-01-30: "With our investment project we prove our long-term commitment to these high-value specialty products."
- [chemicalprocessing.com](https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/industrynews/news/11289749/basf-invests-in-modernization-of-infrastructure-at-ludwigshafen-chemical-processing), 2022-02-01: "With our investment project we prove our long-term commitment to these high-value specialty products."
- [european-coatings.com](https://www.european-coatings.com/news/markets-companies/basf-modernises-production-of-chloroformates-and-acid-chlorides/), 2022-02-09: "BASF is investing a low three-digit million euro amount for the modernisation."

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