BASF SE : BASF’s Charlene Wall-Warren named to The Sustainability Consortium Board of Directors
January 15, 2013 at 12:10 pm EST
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FLORHAM PARK, NEW JERSEY, January 15, 2013 --Charlene Wall-Warren, Sustainability Leader, BASF Corporation, has been elected as a new corporate member to the Board of Directors of The Sustainability Consortium (TSC).During the inaugural board meeting in late January, The Sustainability Consortium welcomed four new board members representing TSC corporate members.
"I'm excited about the opportunity to work together with leading organizations from academia, civil society and industry to collectively shape the future of TSC with the aim of driving sustainability in consumer goods value chains," Wall-Warren said. "For BASF, our seat on the Board of Directors is another opportunity for us to promote science and innovation to help meet the current and future needs of society."
The Sustainability Consortium is an organization of diverse global participants that work collaboratively to build a scientific foundation that drives innovation to improve consumer product sustainability. TSC develops transparent methodologies, tools, and strategies to drive a new generation of products and supply networks that address environmental, social, and economic imperatives. The Sustainability Consortium advocates for a credible, scalable, and transparent process and system.
For more information about The Sustainability Consortium's announcement regarding its new directors, visit:
BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 16,000 employees in North America, and had sales of $20 billion in 2011. For more information about BASF's North American operations, visitwww.basf.us.
BASF is the world's leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. We combine economic success, social responsibility and environmental protection. Through science and innovation we enable our customers in almost all industries to meet the current and future needs of society. Our products and system solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring healthy food and nutrition and helping to improve the quality of life. We have summed up this contribution in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. BASF posted sales of about €73.5 billion in 2011 and had more than 111,000 employees as of the end of the year. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet atwww.basf.com.
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BASF SE is No. 1 worldwide in the chemical industry. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- functional products (44.1%): catalysts (38.9% of net sales), performance materials (23.9%), monomers (22.7%), and coatings (14.5%);
- high-performance materials (21.6%): care chemicals (33.1% of net sales), dispersions and pigments (31.8%), performance chemicals (20.8%) and nutrition products (14.3%);
- chemicals (15%): petrochemicals (71.5% of net sales), and intermediate products (28.5%);
- agrochemicals (14.6%);
- other (4.7%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (9.9%), Europe (27.9%), North America (27.3%), Asia/Pacific (25.4%) and South America/Africa/Middle East (9.5%).
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