SEPA and BASF to expand cooperation on clean fuels

BASF and China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on June 22 to broaden their bilateral strategic cooperation on clean fuels. The MOU was signed during the opening of a diesel testing laboratory, which was jointly sponsored by BASF and the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), under the administration of SEPA. BASF and SEPA/CRAES are close partners, having co-sponsored a gasoline-engine testing lab in 2005. This new lab is the first independent laboratory for testing diesel fuels in China. “The diesel lab will help us in the process of setting the regulatory diesel detergent additive standard in China, further contributing to Beijing’s green Olympic commitment, says SEPA Deputy Minister Wu Xiaoqing. BASF and SEPA agreed to further the cooperation in a new area called Eco-Efficiency Analysis, an important analytical expertise developed by BASF. (June 22, 2007)