Basf Public Limited Company

This project is about the development of a new business model and capability to enable the utilisation of industrial waste gases from the foundation industries, to generate affordable feedstocks and chemicals for use in the production of consumer products in the UK. Such an industrial symbiosis model will displace the import of non-sustainable materials f...

As with many developed countries the UK's agricultural land is under pressure to provide food to a growing population in the most efficient and sustainable manner. There is an added opportunity and responsibility for countries like the UK to take the lead in developing solutions for the UNSDG's in this case \#2 Zero Hunger. Airborne pathogens infect cerea...

Black-grass (_Alopecurus myosuroides_) is the UK's most pernicious weed, causing considerable yield losses each year and threatening the sustainability of UK cereal production. Herbicides remain a key component of tactics to control this species, yet evolution of resistance due to overuse threatens their efficacy. Environmental considerations also raise c...

The HiBarFilm2 consortium will build on the success seen in our feasibility study project (HiBarFilm) and continue the development of high barrier monolayer films for food packaging applications. Multilayer flexible films, used commonly at high volumes in food and medical packaging, are one of the most challenging plastic products to recycle, these materi...

This project aims to design and produce a control system for beetle pests of peas and beans, which does not use blanket sprays of insecticides. Instead, the beetles will be lured to simple devices, baited with beetle specific attractive odours, where they will be coated with spores of an insect fungal disease. When they leave the device they will spread t...

The Agronomics Project, led by ADAS and involving the Courtyard Partnership, BASF, Trials Equipment Ltd., VSN International and the British Geological Survey, will develop statistical approaches to enable high precision spatial experimentation on-farm using precision farming technologies. Agronomics has the twin aims of improving precision and extending t...

The INTRESTS (INTerseasonal Renewable Energy STorage System) project will develop and upscale adsorption storage for thermal energy suitable for capture and storage of low temperature heat from cost effective solar collectors. The project seeks to develop nano-composite adsorbents in order to deliver compact, commercially viable thermal stores, suitable f...