OREANDA-NEWS. BASF, the world’s leading company for innovative chemistry for the paper industry, today welcomes “The CEPI TWO TEAM PROJECT” to its Ludwigshafen symposium. This is the most important innovation project of the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI). The project aims at identifying breakthrough innovations that will enable the association’s members to reach the ambitious climate protection targets of the CEPI Roadmap 2050. For this, two teams of experts, scientists, paper manufacturers, suppliers and representatives of the pulp and paper industry compete against each other. A delegate of BASF’s Paper Chemicals operating division participates in one of the teams. The results will be presented to the EU Commissioner for Climate Action in November 2013.

Hosting the meeting in Ludwigshafen, BASF arranges for a separate conference paired with an innovation marketplace to complement the CEPI Two Team project sessions. In the context of the lecture program, members of CEPI and the German Pulp and Paper Association (VDP) will present on the guiding idea of a lower carbon circular flow economy based on renewable raw materials. BASF contributes presentations which address sustainability in the chemical industry and innovations in paper chemicals. In the subsequent innovation marketplace of BASF Paper Chemicals, numerous examples will be given to demonstrate the innovations the operating division is going to implement to address sustainability already today, tomorrow and in the future.

BASF already offers many sustainable solutions in terms of XELOREX™ – the multifunctional 4-in-1 solution for papermaking – besides cost-efficient binders or the novel production of testliner with anionic sizing agents,  quite apart from the biopolymer ecovio® FS Paper. Solutions for tomorrow are focused on the advancement of cost-efficient binders and the introduction of the next generation of cationic polymers contributing toward a further reduction in production costs of paper.  Some of the topics aimed at the future will introduce the conference attendants to BASF conceptions relating to new cellulose-based materials and functional barriers.