BASF at a glance

BASF at a glance

BASF - The Chemical Company

The worlds leading chemical company

Offers intelligent system solutions and

high-value products for almost all industries

Sales 2010: 63.9 bn

EBIT 2010: 7.8 bn

Employees 105,000

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 Segment structure of BASF

Oil & Gas

Solutions

Agricultural
Solutions
Chemicals

Plastics

Functional
Performance
Products

Inorganic Performanc Dispersion Catalysts Crop Protection Oil &

s e s Gas
Polymers & Pigments
Petrochemicals Polyurethanes Care Chemicals Construction
Chemicals

Intermediates Paper Chemicals Coatings

Performance
Chemicals

Nutrition
& Health
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 BASF Worldwide

Europe

North ANTWERP
LUDWIGSHAFEN
America
FLORHAM
PARK NANJING
FREEPORT
GEISMAR

HONG KONG

KUANTAN
SINGAPORE

South Asia
America, Pacific
SO
PAULO Africa,
Regional
headquarter Middle
Verbund site East
P Selected
production site

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 Verbund Production Site in Ludwigshafen:
Worlds largest integrated chemical complex

10 km2 surface
200 production plants
2,000 km pipelines
33,000 employees

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CEMENTIUM
High-Performance Cement Additives
 How can we
increase capacity
while avoiding investment costs?
 CEMENTIUM

Industry challenges
Lowering clinker factor and cutting CO 2 emissions
Increasing production efficiency
Improving cement performance
Complying with regulatory requirements

BASF innovative products

Helping cement producers master their challenges
Complete, state-of-the-art portfolio of innovative
grinding aids and performance enhancers
Customized solutions

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 How can we reduce
the clinker factor
while enhancing performance?
 Comprehensive range of innovative products

Grinding aids
Neutralize agglomeration and create a
dispersion effect that improves cement
fineness
Increase grinding and separator efficiency,
reduce energy consumption, prevent pack-set,
and increase mill throughput

Performance enhancers
In addition to acting as grinding aids
Increase cement performance as early or late
strength
Improve setting time and workability
Allow optimization of cement recipes

Tailor-made solutions adapted to a variety of composite cements based on slag, fly ash,
limestone, natural pozzolan and other SCMs
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 Example innovation:
The new CEMENTIUM 4000 SW series

Strength and Workability enhancers for composite cements

New cement additives with innovative BASF technology
Robust in different mill systems at variable temperatures
Benefits:
- Reduced water demand of composite cements
- Slump improvement and better workability retention in mortar and concrete
- Higher integration of SCMs (particularly natural pozzolans)
- Meeting concrete producers needs

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How can we increase
production while reducing
our carbon footprint?
 Benefits of Cement Additives
Cost reduction
Lower grinding energy (kWh/ton)
Greater integration of supplementary
cementitious materials (SCMs) and
mineral fillers
Fewer capital expenditures due to
increased capacity
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Production efficiency
Higher mill throughput (t/h)
Easier material handling due
to greater cement fluidity
Decreased pack-set
Increased efficiency of grinding
media and separators
Reduced plant downtime
Longer intervals between
scheduled maintenance
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 Benefits of Cement Additives
Product quality
Greater early and late-age
compressive strength
Better rheological properties
Compensation for dilution of
clinker with less reactive SCMs
and mineral fillers
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Sustainability
Reduced energy consumption
Lower CO2 emissions
Lower clinker factor
Conservation of natural
resources
Extended quarry lifespan
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 How can we increase
mill throughput while
improving performance?
 Our chemical-mineralogical expertise

Resources in our central R&D labs in Trostberg and Treviso

- More than 50 chemists, physicists, civil engineers and mineralogists
- Total lab space 3,600 m 2
Equipment and competences for cement analytics
- Lab cement mills including an Automatic Preparation Module
(low-temperature lab mill <36 m, sulphate-phase safe)
- Cement Fineness: Laser PSA, Blaine instrument, sieve: ultrasonic -sieve 3-125 m
- Powder flow: pack-set test (own development)
- Automatic Vicat Apparatus
- Cement phase composition: XRD (x-ray diffraction), RIETVELD quantitatively, in-situ,
crystallography
- Cement chemical composition: XRF (x-ray fluorescence), ICP spectrometer
- Calorimetry, DSC / TGA
- TOC (Total Organic Carbon)
- Microscopy
- Cryo-SEM / electron microscope (external partnership)

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 How can we prolong
quarry lifespan while
keeping production high?
 Our customer approach

Supporting customers in the implementation of BASF cement additives

Close proximity to markets. Excellent onsite support during all phases of the
cement additives implementation
Six-step program starting with a thorough assessment of the cement producers
needs and technical constraints
Practical advice on appropriate storage of and the most precise and reliable
dosage equipment

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 Our 6-phase implementation process

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How can we improve
cement performance
while cutting costs?
 Our global network of central R&D facilities and
local customer service labs for Cement Additives

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 A solid model from raw material supply until
customer support

Reliable supply thanks to BASF backward integration

Raw material
supply In-house quality control of raw materials

Production & Production plant in every large country

logistics Flexible delivery (admixture model)

Local labs & Local support for daily needs (concrete labs)
technical Centralized resources specialized in cement
service (Trostberg & Treviso)

Cement Dedicated Cement Additives team

Additives
team Support by concrete experts if needed

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CEMENTIUM. Cementing a better future.