{"id":30960,"date":"2015-12-09T07:23:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=30960"},"modified":"2015-12-08T11:08:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T10:08:20","slug":"basf-receives-german-sustainability-award-for-resource-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/basf-receives-german-sustainability-award-for-resource-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"BASF receives German Sustainability Award for resource efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BASF was presented with the Special Award \u201cResource Efficiency\u201d at the ceremony for the German Sustainability Award 2015 on Friday evening (November 27, 2015). With this decision, the jury recognized BASF\u2019s Verbund concept that has set the benchmark in the chemical industry for resource and energy efficiency for decades. In addition to the recognition for efficient raw material and energy use, the development of innovative business models for sustainability, for example, the \u201cmass balance\u201d method, was acknowledged by the jury. This method uses renewable raw materials from the very beginning of the value chain in the existing Production Verbund. Savings of fossil resources are calculated for each product.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BASF was also nominated in the category \u201cMost Sustainable Large Companies\u201d and was among the three leading companies. The German Sustainability Award recognizes companies which make significant contributions to sustainable development on a national and international basis.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information on sustainability at BASF is available at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.basf.com\/sustainability\" target=\"_blank\">www.basf.com\/sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About BASF<\/h3>\n<p>At BASF, we create chemistry \u2013 and have been doing so for 150 years. Our portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. As the world\u2019s leading chemical company, we combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Through science and innovation, we enable our customers in nearly every industry to meet the current and future needs of society. Our products and solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring nutrition and improving quality of life. We have summed up this contribution in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. BASF had sales of over \u20ac74 billion in 2014 and around 113,000 employees as of the end of the year. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (AN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BASF was presented with the Special Award \u201cResource Efficiency\u201d at the ceremony for the German Sustainability Award 2015 on Friday evening (November 27, 2015). With this decision, the jury recognized BASF\u2019s Verbund concept that has set the benchmark in the chemical industry for resource and energy efficiency for decades. In addition to the recognition for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5528],"supplier":[75,11445],"class_list":["post-30960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-sustainability","supplier-basf-se","supplier-deutscher-nachhaltigkeitspreis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30960"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=30960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}